Signal Processors

These valve‑based pedals offer DSP speaker emulation, USB audio interfacing and comprehensive EQ.

The right EQ settings can make a mix — and the wrong ones can make a mess. Our in‑depth guide will help you get more from this all‑important tool.

With both a hardware pedal and a plug‑in version included, this classy‑sounding reverb offers more options than most.

Another of Eventide’s excellent plug‑ins makes the transition to the popular pedal format.

Derived from the custom valve console in Brittany’s famous Kerwax studio, the Replica harks back to a bygone age.

SSL Native X‑Echo is a tape‑echo plug‑in that’s inspired by the sound of early hardware units, not least the Echoplex...

This inexpensive Stardust 201 plug‑in borrows features from the original Roland RE‑201 and RE‑301 hardware, including the chorus section and spring reverb.

Bite Harder combines push‑pull EQ with familiar bit‑crushing and sample‑rate reduction functions, though there are further controls to facilitate more creative audio destruction. 

Slate have taken the famous OTT effect and added a whole load more control, creating a unique dynamics processor.

The masters of convolution have finally produced a reverb, but it’s far from being a straightforward convolution reverb.

The latest addition to Focusrite’s AI‑powered Collective makes great‑sounding reverbs easy to achieve.

Blackstar Dept. 10 Boost is part of a series of pedals that use full‑voltage, dual‑triode valves to provide the touch responsiveness of a valve amplifier.

A four‑band side‑chain EQ is just one of many nice touches in this new take on an analogue classic.

At heart, it models the same hardware as Slate’s FG‑2A, but Custom Opto’s tweaks make it useful on so many more sources!

Have Slate Digital perfected real‑time pitch‑correction?

This keenly priced device offers a bit more control than most valve compressors.

It may be super-compact, but the MX5 punches well above its price tag. What’s not to like?

This 8‑pole variable character stereo filter has an analogue core with digital control...

Described by its creator as a “weirding module”, the Atreides doesn’t do things by halves!

Woott is described as a ‘dynamic hype enhancer’ , which suggests we are in for a bit of not‑so‑subtle compression...

When it comes to dynamics processing, we’ve never had it so good. Once upon a time, even the largest studios had only basic...