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It’s billed as a ‘mastering’ compressor, but VCME 3 is way more versatile than that.
Legendary engineer Phill Brown has worked with the biggest names in music, from Led Zeppelin and David Bowie to Cat Stevens and the Rolling Stones. Asked to choose a favourite sound from his vast catalogue, he nominates the drum sound on ‘After The Flood’, from Talk Talk’s 1991 album Laughing Stock.
Give your vocals a completely new personality with IK’s ReSing.
Yungblud capped a triumphant 2025 with a hit collaboration with Aerosmith. Long‑term producer Matt Schwartz was behind the desk.
The two big beasts of JBL’s PRX900 family are similarly sized and identically priced — but they’re very different speakers! We put them to the test.
Cadet combines impulse responses with algorithmic elements to give the user flexibility in adjusting the settings, and also includes pitch processing that can create shimmer‑style effects without grainy artefacts.
How does Becos' latest addition to the CompIQ range measure up? We put it to the test!
The Electro‑Harmonix Pico Swello is essentially an attack‑shaping pedal that’s based on the attack feature EHX developed for their POG2.
Black Corporation present their ISE-NIN Voice, which offers a complete Jupiter‑style semi‑modular synth voice in Eurorack form.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Designed for creating dark, tension‑filled, music meets sound‑design for modern sci‑fi, drama or horror set in a dystopian world.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Built by sampling a classic Les Paul‑style electric guitar, what does Electric Blue have to offer to give it an edge within a very competitive marketplace?
The SOS Awards celebrate innovation and contemporary design. Congratulations to all the Winners, as well as the very worthy close contenders in each category who have been awarded our Highly Commended accolade.
These three audio examples demonstrate the Omnivocal techniques described in the Cubase workshop article that appears in SOS February 2026.
This Swedish‑made valve mic offers all the character of vintage designs, but without the noise!
To commemorate the centenary of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, Caro C explores Oram’s lasting influence in a conversation with Sarah Angliss and Ian Stonehouse.
Kevin Paul talks with Felipe Gutiérrez about his early career working at Soho Studios, Konk Studios and Mute Records. Their conversation explores the skills required to become a successful sound engineer.
Sometimes, nothing beats the unpredictable swoosh and whoosh of the classic tape flanging effect. And you can recreate it in your DAW...
Available now via Novation Components, the Launch Control XL 3's first major update adds compatibility for more DAWs, enhanced control for external hardware and deeper customisation options.
The area behind an acoustic baffle on the opposite side from the sound source where the sound level is greatly reduced due to sound diffracting around the baffle.
A signal processing technique first conceived by Alan Blumlein to correct for spatial imaging anomalies inherent in stereo microphone arrays and loudspeaker monitoring. All shuffling processes involve frequency-dependent adjustments to the width of a stereo signal at different frequencies.