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Designed and built in Germany, and paying tribute to the Tube Screamer sound...
Need a drum accompaniment at the flick of a switch (and the tap of a foot)? Then look no further than this crafty device!
Fluid Audio’s studio monitors have consistently impressed us with their price-to-performance ratio. So how does their new subwoofer fare?
This preamp boasts huge bandwidth and input impedance. But are those features desirable?
Loudspeakers have been with us for a long time — but there’s still room for innovation, as these exemplary new Geithain models prove!
Laney’s versatile Ironheart amps are impressive, but can you really get the same sound from a stomp box?
Designed primarily for studio home practise or even small gigs, the Laney L5 Studio Head is an extremely elegant amp.
Musically, Rod Stewart’s latest album harks back to ’70s folk-rock, but its writing and production were totally 21st Century.
You’ll find your studio installation starts to look a whole lot tidier if you’re able to make up cables of the correct length.
We show you how to make your own flanger and phaser in Live.
Looptrotter’s latest plaything combines the precision of digital control with the less predictable joys of analogue saturation.
Looptrotter’s products to date have appealed to me enormously. They’re all variations on the saturation theme, and it’s a gorgeous-sounding saturation too.
An extended high-frequency response isn’t something you generally expect from a ribbon mic — but that’s just what this one offers.
Why buy a mic when you can build your own? Microphone Parts’ DIY alternative can save you money and help you brush up on your soldering skills.
Musical pitch has always been putty in the hands of Melodyne. Now, revolutionary features in version 4 promise to make tempo and timbre equally fluid.
This Nashville-built preamp offers a new take on a classic British console sound.
The Modor NF-1 has a front panel festooned with knobs, but at the same time it’s unashamedly digital.
In my experience, many SOS readers are, at least at some level, fairly technically minded and have an interest in how the technology they use works, especially in ‘classic’ instruments and devices. This book is designed to go a long way towards satisfying that ‘inner geek’ in all of us.
To bee or not to bee? Find out how these distinctive-looking mics performed in our tests.
Classic rock: even well-recorded drums can require plenty of work to make them fit the track.