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There can be advantages in permanently installing the pickup for your Roland/Boss guitar synth or modeller. Usually, it’s a job for a luthier, but with some basic woodworking skills you can go the DIY route...
Whether you’re mixing or mastering in stereo, surround or immersive formats, this powerful virtual monitor controller could soon become indispensable.
With up to 10 module slots on board, and both Dante converter and mixer expansion cards available, could this rack widen the appeal of the 500‑series format?
Grammy‑nominated producer and musician Hunter Lea currently produces and engineers out of Uptone Recorders in Tacoma, whose vintage equipment was used to produce his nominated favourite sound: the swelling oceanic tones on the 2024 track ‘Real Shoring’.
A successful musician and producer who happens to be blind, Jason Dasent is helping manufacturers to implement text‑to‑speech and other vital accessibility features.
Some people see modelled equipment as a lacklustre substitute for the real thing. Others view it as an amazing opportunity for modern musicians to access vintage gear...
TC’s diminutive one‑knob, one‑switch Ditto looper has proven very popular, but TC still wanted to improve it...
The DitDit takes text as its stimulus and spits out Morse code, which makes for ideal translation into a language of triggers and gates...
Erica’s Perkons HD‑01 is one of the most inventive drum machines of recent years, and the Perkons Voice is a single Perkons’ synth voice in Eurorack form.
Refreshingly shrewd and not a little iconoclastic, Ross Fish founded Møffenzeef Mødular with all the creativity and risk you might expect, given the modules in the Møffenzeef range.
Would there be a noticeable difference in recording directly and committing (printing) to a Unison plug‑in, versus recording the vocal dry and afterwards adding the preamp plug‑in as an insert?
When I record guitar in my little ‘studio’ at home, it always sounds kinda noisy. What’s the best way to tackle noise?
Need a better power supply? Then these boxes are worth checking out.
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. Time Crystals pairs Emergence Audio's sampling technologies with the resonance of quartz singing bowls...
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Elpiano covers a range of mechanical and electronic piano models that may then be processed via a choice of five different speaker cabinets.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Emma Legato is a very simple and inexpensive vocal instrument that runs on the free version of Kontakt (version 8 or higher).
The right studio furniture can transform your workflow. We round up some of the best current options.
I’ll never tire of scanning through a press release to see if a new product could slot into my studio workflow.
These audio examples accompany my review of the Soyuz Lakeside preamp from SOS June 2025 issue.