Signal Processors

Add a touch of magic with Bastl’s mini modular effects box.

In a world of retro homages, it’s always refreshing when a manufacturer looks to do something a little different...

This quirky 500‑series module is designed for colour and attitude rather than cleanliness.

Could this ‘smart’ plug‑in help you massage vocal and dialogue recordings into better shape?

Cymatics’ Dark Sky granular effects plug-in was inspired by Hologram’s impressive but rather costly Microcosm pedal.

The Electro‑Harmonix Pico 360+ Looper is a pico‑sized alternative to the company’s Nano Looper 360.

Heritage Audio are well‑known for their high‑quality preamps and analogue outboard gear, but the HA 240 Gold Foil Reverb is the first of their plug-ins we've reviewed.

DelayPro is an emulated analogue delay which incorporates an open feedback path, into which you can insert any of HOFA’s other SYSTEM plug‑ins...

The Itinera module is a Eurorack filter developed by Stefano Bersanetti at Euterpe Synthesizer Laboratories.

The BTFLD is a 4‑bit analogue‑to‑digital converter, processing any signal at its input with binary logic and mangling it in all sorts of wild ways.

Need a helping hand to clean up your vocal and dialogue recordings?

In this month’s round‑up, we shine our spotlight on a range of reverb boxes that pack plenty of punch into a pedal format.

Based on Vienna’s Synchron Stage A, this new reverb promises to offer great sounds without taxing your CPU.

Baby Audio escalate their war on bad‑sounding audio with a vastly more powerful toolset for tackling problem resonances.

These modules pair a vintage‑style EQ with a clever saturation feature — and the stereo MQ‑2 also brings controllable compression to the table.

Part fuzz, part guitar synth, this quirky pedal was conceived with horror soundtracks in mind. But it’s not a one‑trick pony...

While most reverb devices and plug‑ins either take an algorithmic or convolution approach, Utopia can dynamically reshape the spectrum of the reverb to remove elements that might clash harmonically with the input signal.

Electro-Harmonix have created the LPB‑3 Linear Power Booster, which incorporates an active EQ, complete with a parametric mid control.

With four stages to play with, Articulate offers a little more control over the attack and sustain of a sound than most other transient shapers.

New Soundtoys plug‑ins don’t come around that often, but when they do, they’re usually well worth checking out. This one’s no exception...

This diminutive device promises instant polish when recording dialogue.