Signal Processors

How much of Grace Design's know-how and revered sound has made it into this unassuming and comparatively low-cost box?

Could this comparatively affordable passive EQ with valve make-up gain actually be better than the revered Pultec unit that inspired it?

This combination of preamp and Auto‑Tune processor could be just the thing for adding a radio‑friendly sheen to your live performances.

This unassuming processor reminds us how much fun can be had playing with distortion and filters!

This is far from being the first clone of a UREI 1176 FET compressor, but it's probably the cheapest to have hit the production lines. Is any of the classic sound sacrificed in Warm's cost-cutting quest?

Eschewing the ‘mix and match’ philosophy of most amp modellers, Brainworx have turned their attention to capturing entire recording chains.

UVI's rainbow‑hued reverb plug‑in is designed to help you instantly find the right ambience for your mix.

Vic Keary's latest design is a compressor that's also a mic preamp and an EQ — but not, apparently, a channel strip!

American company Retro Instruments offer this true variable-mu valve compressor in 500-series format.

The market for reverb plug-ins is crowded, but Exponential Audio hope there's space for two more high-quality designs...

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Can Kush maintain their reputation for fine-sounding analogue gear with this interesting EQ?

As another classic analogue processor is resurrected, we ask what made it so special, and find out how faithful the latest incarnation is to the original.

With digital control, discrete electronics and a saturation processor, Looptrotter's latest device is no run-of-the-mill preamp.

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This all-valve dynamics processor offers amazing versatility, with uses ranging from sublime transient control to brutal compression.

New versions of Sony's Sound Forge and, especially, the innovative SpectraLayers make possible new ways of editing recorded audio.

While the latest version of Hughes & Kettner's Red Box guitar amp DI adds some new tone-shaping options, the basic equation behind the Red Box remains unchanged.

Never have there been so many ways to get into the 500-series format. Does this system have anything different to offer?

The Level Or is a modern take on the Shure Level Loc, which was a small — and rather trashy — PA limiter designed in the '50s.