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Designed specifically for immersive formats, the BP3600 is a novel alternative to more familiar Ambisonic microphones.
We visited AIR Lyndhurst Studios to put the newly revamped M2 monitor through its paces.
Famed recording engineer and record producer Kyle Lehning started his recording career at the age of 18 in Nashville. His career trajectory saw him go on to work with a virtual Who’s Who of the American country music scene...
The world has changed. Pop and rock music is no longer exclusively youth‑focused. In 2025, the average Sound On Sound reader is as likely to be figuring out how to spend their retirement as they are to be entering college.
Old Blood Noise Endeavours describe the Bathing as a ‘liminal’ delay — a word I had to look up before writing this review! Not quite a delay, reverb, or phaser — rather, the Bathing straddles the boundaries between them.
The Boundary Layer is a module whose design actually harks back to a much more classic synth topology. How will Schlappi fare in the heritage game?
The humble kick drum has come a long way and perhaps we’ve reached the peak with the Ohmforce Bohm “frontier of kick synthesis” system.
This diminutive module combines an envelope with a VCA to accept audio signals and render them, well, percussive.
While it’s often most natural in a patch to assign one control signal per destination, there is enormous creative scope in sending a single voltage source to several destinations simultaneously!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Soniccouture continually push the extremes of sound design, and Polarity Tension marks the first in a series of collaborations utilising their impressive new Polarity dual‑granular engine.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. A versatile package that caters equally to players chasing classic Rhodes warmth or the grit and bite of a Wurlitzer.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. OBSO seems to be designed to satisfy those who want instant gratification and want it now! OBSO uses samples as its sound source, the focus of the instrument being obsolete media.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. If you ever daydreamed about getting Mr Phillips’ drum sounds on your productions, your wish has been granted: our man has created three drum expansions for Steinberg’s Groove Agent.
Toontrack keep it real with reel‑to‑reels at Real World Studios.
I challenge anyone to show me a magazine that evokes such passion from its readership as Sound On Sound...
These three audio files provide examples based on the techniques described in the Cubase workshop article in SOS November 2025.
These audio files accompany the Pop Vocal Mixing article in SOS November 2025. The song featured in these examples is 'April Blues', by the artist Moni Blue.
These examples accompany my review of the T-Rex TwinBlaze pedal, published in SOS November 2025.
These audio examples accompany the review in SOS November 2025 of the AudioScape ASA-6A, a lovely hardware valve compressor based on the classic RCA BA-6A design.
Producer, sound designer and composer Jonathan Snipes talks about his work with experimental hip-hop group Clipping, sharing an inside look at their unique production process, before showcasing five modules in an exclusive live performance.