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Can one guitar amp really meet all your needs, from night-time recording in your bedroom to rocking out at high volume on stage?
Thinking of taking your act to the stage? Then you’ll need a suitable way of amplifying it, and that all depends on what and where you’re playing...
This unit from Coleman Audio makes a mark with its sonic integrity, despite its apparent lack of operational frills.
The battle for low-cost valve mic supremacy warms up as Paul White encounters Peavey's new PVM T9000.
The elegant Valvet provides a choice of omni and cardioid polar patterns, as well as delivering the kind of transparent valve sound for which German mic technology is renowned.
A robust and unusually flexible mixer with lots of stereo inputs.
Paul White finds the best of both valve and solid state worlds in TL Audio's latest compressor.
With its built-in effects, compressors and graphic EQ, this compact console might just be ideal for small-scale live work.
Most processors in API’s 500‑series format are classic studio tools such as preamps, EQs and compressors — but now a heavyweight champion from the synth world has joined the party.
Paul White revs up his valves and zooms off to see the big Squeeze.
We test ART's two compact tube processors to see if they sound bigger than they look.
Line 6 give their PodXT the Pro treatment, adding comprehensive I/O and flexible output configurations to their successful modelling processor.
Adding a mixer to an eight-channel preamp may not sound revolutionary, but if it all fits in a 1U rack case it could be very useful indeed!
Richard Waghorn tests the TL Audio PA3001 alongside some of the best mic preamps available and discovers a good combination of price and performance.
These active monitors can have their responses tailored to suit their environment when used with the powerful four-band DSP equaliser option.
Following on from their Freebass TB303 clone, FAT's new PCP Procoder is another take on a classic instrument of the past — that mainstay of many a disco, electro, and Kraftwerk track, the analogue vocoder. Chris Carter absolutely refuses to make silly robot voices with it.
Now that digital equipment is arriving in project studios, a patchbay becomes a worthwhile purchase. Mike Collins goes back to his routes...
Think three-way monitors are out of reach for your project studio? Think again...
This new approach to guitar-amp simulation from the creator of the Access Virus synth promises to let you accurately capture the sound of all your favourite tube amps...