Effects

• Marshall Regenerator, Echohead and Reflector effects pedals • Technique: tuners and tuning stability

• Digitech EX7 Expression Factory • Electro-Harmonix 2880 Super Multitrack Looper • Technique: 'Re-amping' electric guitars

The former Wave Mechanics team set out to create the ultimate classic echo unit emulator, and ended up with a plug-in that does much more.

Line 6 Echo Park & Liqua-Flange Stomp box effects • Digitech EX7 Expression Factory • Terratec Producer Hi Jack Guitar preamp •Re-recording with Fishman Aura and D-Tar's Mama Bear

I have several phasing and flanging plug-ins, and the same effects on my Korg Triton. While not identical, the two effects...

With version 2 of Guitar Rig, Native Instruments are taking amp modelling into the realms of modular synthesis.

We test another group of hot plug-ins: Universal Audio Dimension D • Ugo Rez, Texture, String Theory & Motion • TC Electronic VSS3 Stereo Source Reverb.

Line 6's latest products are USB boxes that turn your computer into a low-latency amp-modelling system.

With W2, Wizoo's aim is to combine the realism of convolution reverb with the flexibility of an algorithmic design.

Korg's newest workstation heavyweight boasts 32 recording tracks, a powerful 44:12:2 mixer, a programmable drum machine, and up to 11 simultaneous effects — all for under £1000. Read our hands-on report...

These new pedals model celebrated guitar tones, including those of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, in unprecedented detail.

I have just bought an old spring reverb unit called the Great British Spring off eBay. It sounds great but if I feed any drums through it, it makes a weird 'ping' sound...

Lexicon's latest hardware reverb is designed to be as easy to control from your computer as a plug-in.

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.