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Avantone’s take on the classic NS‑10 is now available in powered form. We fire them up...
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Avantone’s take on the classic NS‑10 is now available in powered form. We fire them up...

This characterful compressor offers a little more control than most ‘vibe machines’.

Last month we ‘faked’ some string‑arrangements. Now it’s time to add a human touch.

One of the most significant features introduced in DP 10 was the Clips window, and in the 10.1 release, MOTU made it even more powerful.

Heavyocity’s commando percussion team return to the sound stage tooled up and looking for something to break.

Once again, iZotope have raised the benchmark for affordable audio restoration.

Live’s Session view abandons the timeline and allows you to simply trigger individual looping or one‑shot clips of any length.

Eventide’s Spring is a meticulous emulation of the kind of spring reverb you might find in a guitar combo, but with an extended parameter range for more creative uses.

GIK Acoustics' portable vocal screen is sensibly-priced and reduces room coloration, but without adding any obvious boxiness from the screen itself.

The EQ2 offers quality graphic and parametric EQ, with full MIDI capabilities, all delivered in a robust pedal. What's not to like?

Much more than a crossfade tool, Transmutator offers multiple blending modes that allow you to combine or transition between two signals in creative ways.

Given its excellent price tag, this Eurorack mixer has more features than it has any right to, and it doesn’t skimp on the sound quality.

This stereo analogue filter allows different filter modes for the left and right channels, and then messes with the dimensions of space by applying mid‑side processing afterwards.

Mojave’s most affordable mic yields great results on a wide range of sources.

I recently started capturing my vinyl collection to DSD and hi‑res PCM. The result sounds great but when I examine the audio file in iZotope RX 8 Elements I see a band of ultrasonic noise. Should I be worried about this?

For anyone who supplies or works in live sound, or the wider events industry, it’s been a disaster...

Finally, Logic Pro X catches up with, and in many ways improves upon, the step sequencers in other DAWs.

Though there’s only one main user control, VocalMint's audio path comprises a serial chain of three different types of compressor, and multiple behind‑the‑scenes parameters have been optimised specifically for vocal processing.

Can you offer any guidance on what’s essentially an A‑B stereo array, but with the mics angled slightly outwards?

Could you recommend a platform that allows me to share musical ideas with my friends, so we can eventually form songs/compositions?