Signal Processors

Could you explain (slowly!) the basic principles of how a compressor works, and what each control does, the ratio control in particular?

Although it features a familiar analogue-style control interface, the CLX440 has a digital interior that allows it to offer advantages such as a 'Look Ahead' facility more commonly found in plug-in processors.

Paul White enjoys the creative potential of Alesis' distinctive and highly affordable new interactive effects processor.

Most people are familiar with basic reverb, delay and modulation effects, but what lies beyond? In the first part of a new series, Paul White explores the twilight zone of effects processing.

Paul White meets the latest version of Alesis' Quadraverb concept, and finds it respendent with 20-bit I/O, improved digital and analogue interfacing, and a proper internal PSU.

Delay, originally called echo, is one of the oldest artificial effects, yet it can still be one of the most impressive — if used with care. Paul White explains the potential problems and how to avoid them.

Paul White concludes his series with an exhortation to unleash your creativity...

Paul White checks over the Alesis Wedge and finds that, despite its simplicity, its not the thin end of the reverb.

Paul White plugs in the smallest compressor he has ever encountered, and finds that there's nothing small about the sound.

This is the smallest and least costly reverb unit Alesis have ever produced. Paul White finds out whether you can mind the quality and still feel the width!

Alesis reverbs seem to get ever-more cheap and cheerful. But can low price and simplicity go hand in hand with studio-quality performance? Paul White finds out.

Alesis' Midiverb was a big hit with cost-conscious studio musicians when it was first launched back in the mid '80s. Now Paul White assesses whether the Midiverb 4 is still first among sequels...

Paul White finally gets his hands on the long-awaited big brother to the Alesis Quadraverb and Quadraverb+.