
Gainlab Audio Empress
Hungarian company Gainlab impressed us with their Dictator compressor, so we were looking forward to putting their EQ through its paces.
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Hungarian company Gainlab impressed us with their Dictator compressor, so we were looking forward to putting their EQ through its paces.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This library/virtual instrument focuses very much on analogue synth‑based sound sources.

Hifiman are driving the development of headphone technology at an impressive pace!

IK Multimedia’s Fame Studio Reverb emulates the sound of the legendary FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Borsta's audio engine is designed to simulate natural‑sounding brush playing and it offers 18 different percussion instrument sounds.

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


PreSonus’s Revelator io24 is packed with useful features for podcasters, streamers and even common‑or‑garden recording musicians.

Embracing both the charm and limitations of open‑reel tape, the Tensor is a unique and creative looping pedal.

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

Clean‑gain ‘booster’ preamps are popular accessories for ribbon and moving‑coil dynamic mics — but what if that gain were deliberately made more characterful?

Toontrack’s latest EZbass expansion delivers a classic American sound.

UJAM add sonic movement to the themes explored in their popular Finisher series.


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.

Matt Johnson has emerged as one of the most talented and prolific keyboard players of the last 20 years, mostly as part of the legendary Jamiroquai.

LEWITT Audio chat to Hugh Robjohns about their approach to developing, innovating and engineering their range of home, studio and live microphones.

Howard Gray gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes of recording and engineering some of the biggest tracks of the '80s.

Spark plug-in bundle brings classic processors and all-new instruments to non-DSP systems.
