Signal Processors

If you actually owned every amplifier, stomp box and microphone thats emulated in Amplitube 3, youd need a bigger house. But does more always equal better?

This compressor offers automatic time constants to help to keep things sounding natural, even with plenty of gain reduction. Is it a weapon worth adding to your arsenal of mix tools?

Mokafix Audio's Efflam Le Bivic is a man with a mission, and that mission is to create plug‑in versions of a huge range of...

Native Instruments guitar amp simulation software has sprouted a bunch of new amps and effects, along with more realistic cabinet and miking options, and is easier to use than ever before.

• Angular Momentum KickLab XXL • Softube Trident A-Range • SPL MicroPlugs

If you want a high-quality analogue EQ, youll probably own several preamps already — so why pay for unnecessary gain stages? Find out whether you should make an active decision to acquire this passive EQ...

If you like Izotopes Ozone mastering processor so much you want to use it at the mix, their new Alloy is the plug-in for you.

FabFilters powerful plug-in suite brings us advanced modulation possibilities, filters with multiple personalities, and plenty of overdrive.

Liquidsonics convolution reverb is not only highly affordable, but incorporates some innovative features too.

Until now, the biggest name in reverb came attached only to rackmount hardware. Finally, however, Lexicon have made their celebrated rooms, halls and plates available in plug-in format.

Sherman have teamed up with Rodec to bring us more of their own special brand of filter mayhem.

If youre in the market for a high-quality restoration package, there is no shortage of contenders. Sonnoxs trio of plug-ins offers some new and unusual features and a friendly interface.

Hell-bent on achieving truly demonic distortion, we put Evol Audios oddball processor through its paces.

The inventive spirit of one of the industrys true individuals, Stephen St. Croix, lives on in Intelligent Devices unique effects plug-ins.

Ableton Lives devices offer powerful tools for mangling sounds in live performance. But what if you could mangle the devices themselves?

• Elysia Mpressor • GSI VB3 • PSP Old Timer

There are countless reverbs, EQs and delay-based effects out there, but U-hes new Uhbik collection brings some fresh thinking to familiar sounds.

No matter how many compressors we own, when it comes to getting vocal levels right, theres no substitute for faders and hard work. Until now...

Here is a selection of audio files to accompany this month's Celemony Melodyne Editor review (...

In its new Direct Note Access, the latest version of Celemony's Melodyne introduces what might just be the most hotly anticipated piece of music technology ever. Will mixing and remixing ever be the same again?

Weve already reviewed a few of Mr Neves Portico devices in SOS, and have been impressed by the quality — but as well as offering some of the designers distinctive sonic flavour, this unit also gives you something a bit different.