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Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Featuring the exceptional voice of Clara Sorace to offer both playable vocal notes and complete phrases, this library offers a haunted Celtic quality to the sounds.
With 32‑bit recording, multiple mic inputs and a smartphone‑style touchscreen interface, Tascam’s top‑of‑the‑range recorder is brimming with potential.
Rode’s innovative new cans bring fresh thinking to the world of headphone design.
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IK Multimedia’s Fame Studio Reverb emulates the sound of the legendary FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Toontrack’s latest EZbass expansion delivers a classic American sound.
Apogee’s long‑serving desktop audio interface gets a thorough makeover.
Hifiman are driving the development of headphone technology at an impressive pace!
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This library/virtual instrument focuses very much on analogue synth‑based sound sources.
Beyerdynamic’s new studio mics are as classy as they are versatile.
Poltergate is a combination tool for use with drums or other percussive sounds and has both creative and problem‑solving capabilities...
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars.
Fracture Sounds elevate the humble cardboard box to versatile percussion instrument.
Clean‑gain ‘booster’ preamps are popular accessories for ribbon and moving‑coil dynamic mics — but what if that gain were deliberately made more characterful?
Back by popular demand: Korg have miniaturised the ARP 2600 but kept the spirit and sound of the original very much alive.
The IR‑200 is a compact, DSP‑powered pedal that pairs an amp simulator with a speaker cabinet impulse‑response engine.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. This first title in Sonora’s new solo string series expands the frontiers with a large set of atmospheric articulations beautifully performed by Alan Black, distinguished principal cellist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.
This modern take on the Lexicon 224 may be a pedal, but it has applications that go way beyond guitar.