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Love stompboxes but find pedal compressors frustratingly untweakable? This one’s designed with you in mind...
Can this open, portable device help you capture a professional vocal‑booth sound?
Focal’s revised Alpha‑series speakers offer serious studio monitoring at an entry‑level price.
Modal’s SkulptSynth SE packs an awful lot of synth into a very small package.
Could this modern spin on a classic British trio be the perfect analogue front end?
Behringer’s TD‑3‑MO isn’t just a TD‑3 with extra knobs: it’s a completely different instrument.
Korg’s Modwave is a wavetable powerhouse that can import Serum wavetables without conversion.
Genelec’s high‑tech The Ones series has a new flagship model. We fire it up...
A top‑tier film composer shares his coveted percussion collection. Is this the best cinematic drums library ever?
If you want to separate mixed audio, this is the best game in town.
The Filtamp 1006 is a combined 24dB ladder VCF and VCA module with two mixable audio inputs, three modulation inputs, filter resonance and amplifier gain with linear or exponential control.
Maestro is a six‑channel clockable and programmable LFO with an unusual button‑based front panel.
At its core, the Recombination Engine is a triple analogue VCO module based around reissue Curtis CEM 3340 VCO chips. How it combines the three, however, is quite unique...
Toontrack go fretless with a new EZbass expansion.
With their impressive sound quality and adjustable attenuation, these off‑the‑peg earplugs give even custom‑moulded designs a run for their money.
UJAM add some vintage vibes to their range of user‑friendly effects plug‑ins.
If you prefer delays that are a little more ‘out there’, this one is aimed at you.
Hyperion is a hugely capable synthesizer with a complex modular heart.
With selectable analogue drive paths and a fast limiter, this box is designed to add controllable vibe and colour as you capture your analogue mix.
It’s not often that we review guitars in SOS, but the Aum guitar, brainchild of Gareth Whittock, is such a radical departure...