Signal Processors

API's 'Lunchbox' 500-series seems to be breathing life into some little-known classic designs of the past, including this unsung hero of the EQ world...

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Employing a whopping three Lunchbox modules per channel, this EQ system may not come cheap — but it boasts some impressive features.

What would happen if you upgraded every component in an 1176 compressor and added all the functions you wanted? One man set out to answer that question...

With a FET compressor/limiter and tube-saturation circuit on each channel, there’s plenty here to dirty up your sounds. Get ready to mash with the Monster...

Take Sonar back to the ’60s with this vintage-style tape-flanging effect!

The VoiceLive Play offers powerful vocal processing with simple footpedal control.

With an all-analogue signal path and total recall courtesy of digital control, this EQ promises a lot. Does it deliver?

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The concept behind TK’s BC1 is simple: take a classic bus-compressor design and improve on it.

The original VOGAD compressors may not have been developed with music in mind, but listening to this one you wouldn’t know that!

There have been plenty of Leslie emulators over the years, but is the Ventilator the one that finally nails ‘that’ sound?

Sonokinetic's Tutti eschews the approach taken by most orchestral sample libraries, offering, instead, a selection of effects designed to bring your pieces to life...

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‘Threebird’ might have been a more appropriate appellation for this distinctive-looking EQ but, as we found out in our test flight, there’s far more to it than the novel format...

Can Studiomaster’s Vocal Management System deliver everything you need for studio-like vocals in a single unit?

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Matt Houghton gets his hands on this impressive little processor.

From a new and little-known Polish company come two compressors made with a “fanatical attention to detail”. Sounds intriguing...

Safe Sound have already impressed us with their Dynamic Toolbox, and now they’ve brought M/S compression to the Lunchbox format.

Is one voice not enough for you? Have you always dreamed of being your own choir? Read on...