Signal Processors

This may look like a standard compressor, but there's plenty beneath the surface to get excited about.

If you want 'that' analogue sound, sometimes real analogue gear is the only way you can get it — and that's what this valve EQ is all about...

If you wanted to make an authentic hardware tape delay today, you could do a lot worse than commission a designer who used to work for Watkins, makers of the seminal Copicat. So that's what Blue Coconut did...

Can a single hardware unit really meet all your compression needs? It would certainly take something a bit special...

You can have TL Audio's new series of vintage-styled valve devices in any colour you like — as long as it's black!

This EQ borrows circuitry from the classic Massive Passive design, but can the Mini really be 'massive'?

If you want quality outboard in a compact frame, modular systems are the way to go. Find out how Audient's offering compares with the rest.

The sound of an SSL console is now available in an even smaller package - and at a smaller price.

Flux claim that their plug–ins combine simplicity and sophistication, thanks to their unusual interface design and novel controls.

Intrusive sibilants can ruin an otherwise good-sounding vocal track, and conventional de-essers are often of limited use. Can Eiosis's radical new design do any better?

This classy stomp box is much more than a guitar effect, and it is equally impressive on stage and in the studio.

The classy Phoenix rises again — but this time it has been tweaked for the mastering fraternity.

This classy piece of kit boasts the quality and flexibility of high-end algorithmic reverbs, but can also deliver convolution-like realism.

Convolution technology has provided new levels of realism for plug-in reverb, but has been unable to capture non-linear or time-variant effects such as compression, tape saturation, distortion and flanging. Until now, that is...

If you want to capture the sound of your boutique valve amp for recording but can't turn it up loud, you need a power soak... and speaker emulation... and mic emulation... SPL's Transducer does it all.

Behringer offer highly affordable excitement in the shape of two new sub-£100 rack processors.

Summit Audio's high-end designs are known for their quality and longevity — so is their new compressor a classic in the making?