Signal Processors

I am recording using a spaced-pair miking setup and I want to apply light compression to the signal. Where in the signal chain should I insert the compressor (pre- or post-fade), and will I have to buy a dedicated stereo compressor to do the job properly?

If you are looking for effects and instruments to give your mixes a sideways slant, Cycling '74 might have just the thing...

This new Ivory-series preamp and compressor combines the ease of presets with the flexibility of manual operation.

When using a compressor and an EQ as insert effects on a snare drum, is it better to use compression followed by EQ or EQ first then compression?

This system can record in mono, stereo, or any current or future surround format — using just one mic.

For all those Pro Tools users who pine for the sound of analogue EQ, URS have recreated the equalisers from three classic mixing desks.

Surround-capable reverbs don't usually come with a price tag of £100. However, nobody seems to have told Voxengo. So just how good is their Pristine Space PC VST plug-in?

As well as more-or-less conventional vocoding and pitch-shifting, DelayDots' new VST plug-in offers effects so bizarre they almost defy description.

Sony's Oxford digital mixers are out of many people's reach, but Pro Tools and Powercore users can now get their hands on the Oxford's sophisticated processing tools.

Antares certainly don't believe in the 'less is more' maxim, if this new filtering effect is anything to go by.

Two effect pedals from the celebrated synth manufacturer provide serious modulation flexibility within a stomp-box format.

This dual-channel compressor combines valve circuitry with an opto-compressor design. But does it deliver the best or the worst of both worlds?

I record guitar using a Line 6 Pod Pro going into a Roland VMC7200 mixing desk via S/PDIF. While the guitar is plugged in, every so often a little audio spike comes through the monitors. Can you tell me what this noise could be and how to stop it?

SOS talks to a British designer who thinks audio in the 21st century is still best served by tube.

Mindprint have overhauled the electronics in their popular valve recording channel, and have also added extra facilities and an optional USB recording and monitoring interface.

Ted Fletcher's new processor packs four different well-known compression types into a single box.

AMS Neve have reissued one of the most revered of the '70s Neve designs, but can it still compete in the 21st century?

Do you use a software studio with plug-in effects but crave the effects quality that your favourite hardware processor used to provide? Well, you can have the best of both worlds... as this article explains.

Brief appraisals of another selection of software Plug-ins from Disco DSP, Cutter Music, Kjaerhus Audio and PSP.

This versatile effects processor has not only been designed for guitarists and bassists, but also for the home studio owner.

Roger Linn Design have updated their versatile instrument processor, which still produces an array of unusual effects not normally available from a single box, but is now claimed to be easier to use.