SOUND ON SOUND
These audio examples accompany the review of the Electric & Company EC5B Limiting Amplifier in the SOS May 2023 issue.
Magma offers a one‑stop shop for analogue‑style attitude and warmth.
KIT’s latest collaboration with Blackbird Studio brings us their take on the Neve 1073.
Yamaha’s new all‑in‑one speaker packs a lot of sound into a portable package.
This isn’t the first virtual Leslie speaker plug‑in — but it might just be the best one yet!
Roland’s SH‑4d is an ambitious amalgam of synth and sequencer in a battery‑powered box.
HALion is back, and it’s bigger, better and FMier than ever!
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. A huge 362GB collection of complex, playable, largely chromatic long drones created by Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Sound Dust’s Felt Dulcitone is a rather oddball instrument created by abusing a dulcitone portable keyboard.
Rode’s new desktop mic gives you a broadcast‑ready sound out of the box.
Meet the Seaboard Rise 2, the squishy sequel to ROLI’s original expressive keyboard controller.
Lauten Audio’s LA‑120 is not so much a pencil mic as an entire box of crayons!
Do you really need another filter plug‑in? We didn’t think so either — until we tried this one!
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This library is a collection of drum samples from seven‑time Grammy‑winning recording/mixing engineer John ‘Yosh’ Jaszcz, whose credits include George Clinton and Bootsy Collins.
There’s a lot to like about MiMU’s unusually gelatinous take on granular synthesis.
Fracture Sounds serve up a trio of intimate piano sample libraries: Woodchester Piano, Midnight Grand and Glacier Keys.
Wobbler2 adds a drum synthesizer to the Wobbler LFO module that was released in 2018.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Vintage Country is a collection of both playable instruments and performance loops designed to capture the authentic sound used in, well, vintage country recordings.
Lewitt dare to be different with their first foray into the world of audio interfaces.
Ever wanted to run already recorded signals through a guitar amp or stompbox? One of these boxes could be all you need...