Effects

We test two hot new plug-ins: Camel Audio's Camel Space (PC VST & Mac OS X AU) and TC Electronic's DVR2 (Mac/PC Powercore).

Software guitar amp modelling has been around for a while, but GTR is Waves' first foray into the field — and as you'd expect, they have made a huge effort to get it right, even hiring guitar maker Paul Reed Smith to design a bespoke preamp.

How much difference is there between the quality of a VST reverb plug-in and a hardware reverb processor such as the...

Altiverb was one of the first convolution reverbs to appear. Is it still the best?

Record loops and overdub in real time for lightning-quick track creation live or in the studio.

This month: Universal Audio Boss CE1 • TC Electronic NonLin2 Stereo Effects Reverb

Anarchy Rhythms is a novel VST plug-in/stand-alone application, whose author accurately describes it as "a hybrid between an effect and a drum machine".

This new card narrows the gap between Roland's VS-series machines and computer recording systems by allowing the use of third-party plug-ins within the multitracker environment. We test the card, its bundled plug-ins, and the first of the brand-name offerings from Universal Audio.

Not content with offering some of the most fully-featured digital mixers in the world, Yamaha have now upgraded them, and are offering extra effects packs to further expand their capabilities.

A new plug-in bundle from Dutch developer Audio Ease brings together three unique sound-shaping tools.

The original 3U monster that was the SST282 Space Station has been reissued by Seven Woods Audio as this small desktop unit. Not content merely to offer all the classic sounds, though, the new incarnation has a number of fresh tricks up its sleeve...

This unusual effects pedal combines a bank of eight band-pass filters with an analogue-style control sequencer.

We check out another batch of plug-ins destined to find a place in your virtual rack.

I am trying to recreate the famous gated reverb effect on Phil Collins's records. Can you tell me how the original effect was created?

If you're looking for a high-quality reverb with plenty of user control, Sony's Oxford Reverb might be just what you're after.

Two of Zoom's budget studio effects processors have been re-released with a few modernisations. Are they still relevant in today's market?

Is it an amp modeller? Is it a multitracker? Is it an audio/MIDI interface? We stomp the facts out of Digitech's new box...

Storm, the French software studio from virtual-instrument creators Arturia, keeps on improving. We check out version 3.

The latest addition to TC's Powercore range offers the convenience of Firewire connection at a bargain price, with some serious new plug-ins included.

There are now plenty of convolution reverbs around, but Prosoniq's Rayverb offers something a little different. So just what is 'inverse raytracing' anyway?

If you are looking for effects and instruments to give your mixes a sideways slant, Cycling '74 might have just the thing...