Effects

Two more visually distinctive rack units from Line 6, designed to model the hallowed sounds of antiquity.

Heavyweight TC effects processing but with a menu-free, easy-to-use, hands-on interface.

The enhanced V‑Amp 2 has more sounds and more features... for less money!

Yamaha' s cutting-edge reverberation processor uses convolution techniques to sample the ambience of real acoustic environments, allowing extremely accurate simulations.

The latest technological advances in reverb design have yielded expensive hardware units that can 'sample' the sound of real rooms. Now Audio Ease's Altiverb brings the same convolving technology to the Mac — at a fraction of the cost.

The market for hardware samplers may be on the wane, but Emu aren't abandoning their hardware customers; their RFX32 effects/mixer card can add tremendous processing and routing power to any of their Ultra samplers.

A plug-in card for the Yamaha AW-series workstations that combines Waves-quality DSP effects with eight channels of ADAT optical I/O.

TC upgrade both the hardware and the software of their cost-effective M•One multi-effects unit.

Digitech BP200 Modelling Bass Effects

Korg's AX1500G floor-standing guitar multi-effects processor offers tons of tone for very few pounds.

The latest dual effects processors from LEM sound better than their price might lead you to expect.

Line 6's acclaimed Delay Modeler pedal gets a rackmount makeover.

Boss' latest multi-effects processor for guitarists gets the SOS review treatment...

The new AG Stomp physically models a miked-up acoustic guitar sound using the DI signal from an acoustic guitar piezo pickup, and also offers a variety of useful effects processors.

Eventide's new entry-level unit brings their high-end algorithms within reach of the serious home studio owner.

Modern digital effects units always include emulations of analogue effects such as tape delay and flanging — but none of them ever seem quite like the real thing. Paul White explains how these vintage effects worked, and offers insight into how our modern attempts could be made more accurate.

In the final part of his short series on pushing back the boundaries of effects processing, Paul White explores many different applications of audio filters, as well as exploring the possibilities of granular synthesis.

Most people are familiar with basic reverb, delay and modulation effects, but what lies beyond? In the first part of a new series, Paul White explores the twilight zone of effects processing.

Line 6 have released two DSP-based effects pedals that use physical modelling to recreate the echo, delay and modulation treatments of a bygone age. Paul White — who was there first time around — finds out how they measure up to the real thing.

Lexicon's new mid-priced unit strikes a balance between the ease of use of their budget gear and the flexibility and sonic class of their high-end products. Paul White gets an exclusive first look...

Can these new digital interpretations of classic analogue filters and vocoders really offer something new?