Unbiased and critical studio and home recording equipment reviews

George Shilling knows recording equipment. These equipment reviews are for anyone looking to buy new or used, home or pro studio recording gear and needs to know what's good and what's not!

Browse the recording studio equipment area with 85 reviews of home and studio equipment ranging from mic pre amplifiers, compressors, monitors and just about anything used in the recording studio.

All of the recording equipment reviews are unbiased as we don't directly take advertising from any manufacturer.  Any advertising on the site is placed by a third party or links to a general equipment shop which means that we are not influenced other than by our ears. 

In addition to equipment reviews we are starting to expand the studio gear and music shop at zZounds as they have had excellent feedback in the 5 years that we have dealt with them and they offer a full returns policy if you don't like what arrives.

Also, check our Microphones page if you're looking to add to your collection

ACME Opticom XLA-3

AnaMod AM670 Limiter

AnaMod ATS-1

Aphex 661

API 1608

Apogee Rosetta 200

Audient Zen

Audio Ease Speakerphone

Cartec EQP-1A

Chandler EMI TG12413 Plugin

Chandler Limited EMI TG Mastering Pack

CharterOak SCL-1 stereo compressor

Chiswick Reach stereo valve compressor

CLM  Expounder

Cranesong STC 8 Discrete Class A Stereo Compressor Peak Limiter

Cranesong Trakker

dbx 160S compressor

Digitech Studio 400

DPA 3541 Vocalist & Instrument Microphone Kit

Drawmer Front End One MX60

E.A.R./Yoshino 660 Compressor/Limiter

Eventide DSP 4500

Eventide DSP 7000 Harmonizer

Eventide H7600 Ultra-Harmonizer

Fat Man 'Fat One' by TL Audio

D.W.Fearn VT-7 stereo tube compressor

Focusrite Liquid Mix HD Plug-in

Geoffrey Daking 52270 Mic Pre/EQ and 91579 Compressor/Limiter

Groove Tubes The Glory Comp

Gyraf Gyratec XIV - EQ

Helios EQ1 Lunchbox

Inward Connections Vac Rac TEQ-1

Joemeek MeekBox VC6

Joemeek SC4 DAD and C2 Compressors

JoeMeek VC2

Klark Teknik Square One Splitter

LA Audio Classic Compressor

LA Audio Millennium Series

Lexicon MPX1

Lexicon PCM90

Mackie 1604-VLZ 16 Channel

McDSP Retro Pack

Microphone/Line Mixer

Manley Massive Passive Stereo Tube EQ

Mutronics Mutator

Neumann TLM 103 microphone

Neve 8803 Dual EQ

Neve 8801 Channel Strip

Phoenix Audio DRS-Q4M

Phoenix Audio Nicerizer 16

Presonus ADL 600 Dual Channel Mic, Line, Instrument pre

Prism MMA

Purple Audio MC76 limiter

Ridge Farm's Steamer and Gas Cooker

Roll Music RMS755 Super Stereo Compressor

Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5043 Compressor/Limiter Duo

Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5033 Five Band EQ

Rupert Neve Designs 5088 Discrete Analogue Mixer

Sonnox Oxford SuprEsser

SPL Qure

SPL Tube Vitalizer

SSL Alpha Channel

SSL Duende

SSL Mynx and E Series Modules

SSL X-Desk

SSL X-Rack Mixer

Summit Audio TMX-420 Tube Mixer

Symetrix 628 Digital Voice Processor

TC Wizard/M2000

TC Electronic FireworX

TC Electronic DVR2 TDM Plugin

TC Electronic NonLin2 TDM Plugin

Ted Fletcher Audio Gear P38 Stereo Mastering Compressor

TFPro P10 Mighty Twin

Thermionic Culture Phoenix

Thermionic Culture The Rooster

Thermionic Culture Vulture valve distortion unit

Thermionic Culture The Earlybird 2.2 & The Pullet

TL Audio VTC valve mixing desk

TLAudio M1 Tubetracker Console

Universal Audio 1176LN

Universal Audio UAD Plugins

Universal Audio 2 LA 2

Vertigo Sound VSC-2 Quad Discrete VCA Compressor

Waves API Collection (Native/TDM)

More coming soon....

Demeter HM-1 Tube Mic Preamp

STC-8 Class A 

Symetrix 562E Windowing Expander/Gate

Tim de Paravicini and his 1-inch stereo recorder