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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. This sampled instrument takes the guitar sound and transforms it into something altogether more cinematic.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Sharing the same underlying sound‑design engine as 2023 release Strands, Folds is based upon samples of the human voice.
Comprising Taiwanese brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi, Taipei duo Mong Tong incorporate a wild mix of influences...
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Using professional mixes to help guide your own decisions can provide very interesting results!
These audio examples accompany our retrospective feature on the Roland System 100 from SOS October 2024 issue.
SSL’s desktop interfaces get a well‑deserved overhaul.
Covering stereo and horizontal surround‑miking concepts with the latest techniques for capturing height information, as required for immersive formats such as Auro‑3D and Dolby Atmos.
Nick Rothwell learns about the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, a music technology research team lead by Professor Andrew McPherson, whose ongoing projects include the Magnetic Resonator Piano and the Bela open-source platform.
Paul White and Hugh Robjohns talk us through four essential studio effects that every music producer or mix engineer needs to know for creating an effective mix.
While it’s not the first USB interface optimised for electric guitar players, Blackstar’s new Polar 2 has some neat tricks up its sleeve.
“We had always planned for Carnaby HE2 to be more than just two Carnaby 500s in a box,” say Cranborne. But how much more?
LEWITT aim to keep things simple with an elegantly designed interface and some very helpful software.
Based on the modelling algorithms of Line 6’s Helix processors, the company’s POD Express comes in a stompbox format and has a very straightforward user interface.
We round up some of the best small studio monitors for your listening pleasure.
As CEO of Universal Audio, Bill Putnam Jr has pioneered some of the most important innovations of the last 35 years. In conversation with SOS's Sam Inglis, he traces the Universal Audio story back to its founding by his father Bill Putnam Sr in 1958.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Giving users a perfectly synchronised double string orchestra, VSL have added three new titles to the series.
Can an 80‑year‑old mic preamp design still cut it in the 21st Century studio?
Chandler’s Jekyll and Hyde approach to mic design reaches a new market with their most affordable model yet.
Clavia have made their best‑in‑class stage piano even better!