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Clean‑gain ‘booster’ preamps are popular accessories for ribbon and moving‑coil dynamic mics — but what if that gain were deliberately made more characterful?
With added functionality and improved specs, this great preamp just got better.
I'm curious to know how common the use of re-amping is amongst producers, engineers and composers. There are so many...
With both a hardware pedal and a plug‑in version included, this classy‑sounding reverb offers more options than most.
With its unusual method of applying gain reduction, the Hazelrigg VNE is no ordinary compressor.
Our tame engineer describes a new approach to mixing that helped him to get the best out of an EP that was recorded remotely during lockdown.
Audient have used their considerable expertise to create an audio interface just for guitarists.
What would you record with an indestructible microphone?
A good engineer can make bands sound better than they are. In this video, Sound On Sound's Editor In Chief Sam Inglis explains how to turn musical lead into gold...
Though more affordable than high-end parent brand BAE, UK Sound's gear certainly isn't bargain-basement stuff!
I have an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff effects pedal that I’d like to try out on vocals, drums and possibly some other things during tracking.
With the massive strides software has made in recent years, there are now more ways to record the electric guitar...
Never has working with a hybrid analogue/in‑the‑box setup been so easy.
The SOS team pick their highlights from recent hardware and software launches.
Line 6 first made their name with the Amp Farm plug-in, but since then they've concentrated on hardware products, and Gearbox Plug-in makes their latest range of amp and effects emulations available in a plug-in for the first time.
We’re used to seeing convolution technology in plug-ins, but recent years have seen this increasingly appearing in hardware form. DigiTech’s take on this is a compact stompbox-format dual-channel cabinet emulator.
Italian band Måneskin were unlikely winners of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, but even that couldn’t prepare them for what came next. Mix engineer Alessandro Marcantoni tells the story of their viral single ‘Beggin’.
Some of Studio One’s hidden gems are now available to users of other DAWs.
Does an all-analogue, 1989 design still have a place in the world of convolution and modelling-based guitar recording products? Get ready to be surprised by the reissued SansAmp Classic.