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SOS April 2022

Tierra Audio Flavours

Audio Captions

Neil Rogers

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If anyone knows how to make a transmission‑line speaker, it’s PMC...

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.

Waldorf return to their roots with a modern take on the classic Microwave.

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.

Nektar keep doing what they do best: making solid, capable, no‑nonsense MIDI controllers.

Sonic Potions and Erica Synths team up to create a truly unique drum machine.