Signal Processors

Based on a classic design and bursting with transformers, the Successor from Heritage Audio combines a vintage sound with serious flexibility.

Billed as a faithful recreation of the built-in chorus effect found in the Roland Juno‑60 synthesizer, the June‑60 pedal goes all out to recreate the Juno aesthetic...

Arturia turn their attention to delays, offering us three software options: one an original design, and two modelled on classic hardware.

Hedra offers auto–harmony, pitch detuning, pitch glide and various other less obvious but highly usable functions.

The ADDAC611 is not your typical filter. It is noisy, rough and sometimes violent, the Peaky Blinders of filters. This of...

Boasting three pressure-sensitive footswitches, this delay pedal puts more control at your feet than most.

These audio examples accompany our Kemper Profiler Stage review from SOS December 2019.

Kemper finally have a floorboard version of their groundbreaking Profiling Amplifier. Has it been worth the wait?

Max 8 sees Cycling '74 enhance both multi-channel audio and JavaScript support, among many other improvements.

Front DAW is a very affordable analogue console emulation plug-in for Mac and Windows, compatible with VST, VST3, AAX and AU hosts.

Once again, Soma bring us an instrument like no other...

With its ability to deliver anything from super-subtle saturation to downright despicable distortion, could this be the only valve preamp you'll ever need?

If your music-making workflow is centred on an iOS device, you can now pick up FabFilter's plug-in suite in app form for a fraction of the price of their desktop counterparts.

McDSP's revolutionary APB‑16 promises to combine the sound of analogue compression with the convenience of plug-ins. Is it all too good to be true?

Conventional compressors or expanders are not always suitable for tackling issues that affect only one part of the frequency spectrum, which is where multiband solutions like Pompeii come in very useful.

Submarine's role in life is to add natural-sounding sub-bass content by generating frequencies that are one octave and two octaves lower than the input signal.

The Quad Peak Animation System, aka QPAS, is a filter aimed primarily at stereo imaging and animation.

Thanks to its multi-axis approach, Planar 2 offers much more than traditional joystick controller designs.

This all-analogue processor is designed to massage, mangle and mutilate your audio.

Universal Audio continue to tempt UAD2 owners with officially licensed recreations of classic equipment — and rooms!

This clever design rethinks many aspects of compressors that we've long taken for granted.