Effects

Eighteen years after the launch of their ground-breaking POD, Line 6’s new flagship amp-modeller looks brimful of promise.

With such brilliant software reverbs now available, does this new hardware unit warrant a place in the space race?

With new amps, effects and a stripped-back GUI, is Overloud’s modelling software ready to play a headline slot?

Algorithmic reverb plug-ins still can’t match high-end hardware, but Liquidsonics are bridging the gap with an innovative new convolution technique.

The MF Flange and MF Chorus pedals are the latest in Moog’s Minifooger line, the initial offerings of which we reviewed...

This powerful vocal processor puts its controls right where you need them!

AmpliTube 4 gives the virtual guitarist more amp, cab and miking options than ever before.

The Key9 takes in a monophonic or polyphonic signal from a standard electric guitar, processes the waveforms that come from the pickups, and delivers a remodelled sound, in this case emulating electric pianos...

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!

Laney’s versatile Ironheart amps are impressive, but can you really get the same sound from a stomp box?

Where one Soundtoys plug-in isn’t enough, you can now create custom chains, with a new emulation of a classic delay on offer too.

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Anthology X makes many of Eventide’s signature effects available in native plug–in formats for the first time. Was it worth the wait?

Digital Brain Instruments are carving a niche for themselves producing fun and intuitive interactive audio tools for games...

I’ve been aware of Sound Radix’s SurferEQ for a few years now but, for some reason, have only recently managed to...

Merging two different creatures didn’t work out so well for Jeff Goldblum and co in The Fly. But what if you could merge the DNA of two different sounds instead?

Harald Bode was perhaps one of the most important audio innovators of the 20th century, but his work is not widely known today...

Is this the ultimate Swiss Army knife for bassists?

Every so often, an innovative and easy-to-use piece of technology comes along that makes me (and everyone that I show it to) grin from ear to ear...

E-H's overdrive pedal uses MOSFETs as non-linear elements to create distortion, and actually performs as well as many boutique pedals despite being very modestly priced.