Signal Processors

Want your loops to sound like they've been badly mastered, pressed to cheap vinyl and fed into a budget sampler? Tone Projects' plug-in does it all.

Izotope have teamed up with electronic composer BT to bring us an effects processor that can be 'played' in real time.

Fine-tuning level automation on key parts can make a huge difference to your mix, but it's a tedious process — unless a plug-in does it for you!

With so many mastering processors already on the market, is there room for another compressor, EQ and limiter? Fabfilter certainly think so...

Can you really achieve 24-carat Neve-style compression on a shoestring, or is this a case of fool's gold?

NI's Reflektor is a reverb that combines simplicity of operation with a very musical sound.

Izotope's latest plug-in provides a one-stop shop for polished vocal sounds, with deeper editing available for those who need it.

Many limiters are designed to be as transparent as possible - but Inward Connections' TSL3 is built to sprinkle valve magic over your music.

Can UA's Studer plug-in really reproduce the sound of saturated multitrack tape in all its glory? To find out, we tracked down a real Studer A800, a top-flight studio and a hitmaking band...

These audio files accompany the Universal Audio Studer A800 review that featured in SOS March 2011.

Re-amping has the potential to give us infinite choice, but is that always what we need? Studio Devil's amp modelling plug-in concentrates on getting the sound right.

These audio files accompany the Studio Devil Virtual Guitar Amp II review that appeared in SOS March 2011.

If you like weird and wonderful effects, you need to enter the spectral domain — and SpectrumWorx 2 will take you there in some style.

Creating complex routing chains in a hybrid DAW/outboard setup presents its own set of problems — to which Solid State Logic offer this solution...

Not all of us can afford to have our tracks mixed by Chris Lord-Alge. But Waves' latest plug-in bundle might just be the next best thing...

The Biscuit is as crunchy an 8-bit processor as anyone could wish for, but there's much more to it than that...