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Paul White tries out a new overdrive pedal that was clearly named after a very large T-shirt.
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Paul White tries out a new overdrive pedal that was clearly named after a very large T-shirt.
With so much interest in vintage synths, it's easy to overlook the fact that many classic sounds owed just as much to the tape delays being used at the time as to the instruments themselves. Paul White shows you how to fake the effect.
BBE's new Sonic Maximizer combines enhancement with single-ended noise reduction. Paul White finds out whether the marriage of the two systems is a happy one.
Derek Johnson opens up the latest effects box from Ensoniq and finds that they do sometimes do things by halves!
The trouble with sequels is that they're not usually as good as the originals. Is the follow-up to Digitech's powerful TSR24 the exception to the rule? Derek Johnson and Debbie Poyser find out.
Vocoders aren't just about tiny robot voices from awful '70s records — some could generate lush choir sounds and opulent strings too.
Paul White tries his hand at tonal transformation using Ashly Audio's latest parametric equaliser.
It's cheap, it's cheerful and it's easy to use. Paul White rediscovers the joys of simplicity with Zoom's most affordable guitar multi-effects unit ever.
David Mellor explores ways to spice up vocal and guitar lines, courtesy of two new Digitech harmony processors.
Paul White plays axe hooligan for a day with the Sansamp PSA1.
Paul White tries out Yamaha'a new easy-to-use digital effects unit, and finds it brash rather than bashful.
Analogue Systems continue their crusade to bring pre-MIDI devices back in studios everywhere with their new CV-only filter bank. Paul Ward checks it out.
Despite the preponderance of digital technology in the modern recording world, many independent manufacturers continue to produce valve-based processors for the subjective warmth they add to recordings. Paul White looks at one of the latest, Ridge Farm's new valve DI box.
Paul White looks at the latest incarnation of the LXP15 and finds that it neatly bridges the gap between Lexicon's budget products and their top-of-the-range pro reverb units.
Derek Johnson looks at a cost-effective way of cutting down the noise in your studio.
Eventually, pretty much everyone tries to recreate that old vintage valve guitar sound by using an old vintage valve, but Zoom have teamed tube technology with a powerful digital effects DSP to combine the best of old and new. Paul White finds out if the marriage works.
Digital delay tends to be taken very much for granted, but the majority of today's studio effects would be impossible without it. Paul White describes how to set up your own DDL effects from scratch.
The roles of the various signal processors and effects used in audio production are pretty well understood by most musicians, but it's not always obvious where they should be patched into the signal chain to give the best results.
Equalisation is one of the most powerful tools in your sonic toolkit and can be your greatest enemy or your greatest ally in the battle for the perfect sound. David Mellor gives advice on how and when best to use it.