Signal Processors

Antares’ efforts to apply their pitch-correction technology to guitar products continues, with this versatile pedal-format processor.

What’s new in Focusrite’s updated multi-channel mic preamp?

Combining aspects of two classics from the golden age of hardware design, this compressor is really rather special.

Rather than offer a straightforward overdrive pedal, the Regency Pre-Drive combines a clean signal level booster with a separate, more restrained drive section.

Tech 21 have turned their focus to recreating, in pedal format, that part of a vintage console’s signal path that was often pressed into service for the direct recording of both guitars and basses back in the day.

Explore the ups and downs of Phoenix’s transformer-laden tone control...

The latest iteration of Peavey’s modelling software not only allows you to build your own virtual guitar amps, but to ‘profile’ real ones.

Roland’s EC-10M turns any cajon into an electronic percussion generator.

The CP-1X is no typical guitar compressor pedal. It employs Boss’s proprietary Multi-Dimensional Processing (MDP) technology, which analyses various aspects of the incoming signal in real time and then responds by optimising the digital processing for the source.

This stylish module brings the ‘blue stripe’ revision of the UREI 1176 to the 500 series.

Typically, reverb plug-ins are either simple or versatile. FabFilter claim that their Pro-R combines both virtues.

I thought I had a handle on this, but seem to have a hard time understanding the difference between a compressor’s ‘Hold’ and its ‘Release’. Can you help explain?

Is it really possible to carry out studio-quality pitch-correction in real time? Waves think so...

Haaze is a simple to use tool for manipulating stereo width in an audio signal — and it's cheap as chips.

Could this modern take on a classic compressor design be fab for your studio?

These classy new French-made modules are inspired by vintage designs, but they also add a few unexpected and useful features.

In Ableton Live, I used to use a plug-in to split a channel so that I could do multiband processing. I’m now using Cubase Pro 8.5 and it doesn’t seem to work...

UA’s latest updates add new compressors, delays, voice channels and virtual bass amps, as well as refreshing a few familiar faces.

Room simulation on headphones usually stops being convincing as soon as you move your head. Not so with Waves’ new Nx...

iZotope say that Neutron not only has the processing power to address all sorts of mixing issues, but the intelligence to help you identify them.

Eiosis’ revolutionary de-esser is reborn, with extra features and a snazzy new interface.