With many years experience working as recording engineers and producers, our review team of George Shilling and Russell Cottier know the good from the bad. In many cases it's a matter of taste, some prefer one EQ over another but we try to provide unbiased and objective reviews of the equipment tested.
Neve have been building high-end characterful consoles for decades, the BCM10 being one such desk.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewBerlin, 1977, in Hansa Tonstudio: Tony Visconti is recording Bowie's soon-to-be hit song Heroes, but he has run out of tracks. Hansa's studio 2 was the historic Meistersaal Hall constructed in 1910 for classical music performance.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewHoused in a sleek 1U rack-mount, the Orion 32+ Gen 3 from Antelope Audio offers an amazing 64 simultaneous audio inputs and outputs. 32 analogue I/O is on the rear panel, with the remaining connectivity via various digital connections.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewFocusrite has long been in both the preamp and convertor games, the Red 8Pre combines the two.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewSeventh Heaven is a high-end reverb plug-in from LiquidSonics. LiquidSonics has been bringing advanced reverb plug-â¨ins to the market for the best⨠part of a decade. Based on⨠Fusion-IR technology these â¨are more than just convolution⨠reverbs.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewGerman based Vertigo Sound has been a name in high-end audio gear since 2007, launching with the VSC-2.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewThe Miktek MPA-201 is a dual-channel Class-A microphone preamplifier providing a certain amount of character from its multiple transformer stages.
Read Russell Cottier's review1964 he started building effect pedals for Jimmy Page. Mayer also designed and built pedals used by Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and session guitar legend Big Jim Sullivan.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewEventide partnered with Newfangled Audio (founded by former Eventide DSP developer Dan Gillespie) in 2017 to launch the Elevate multiband artificial intelligence driven limiter.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewToontrack has a solid reputation in the software instrument world primarily for its flagship product, Superior Drummer. Back in May Toontrack flew journalists from across the world to Galaxy Studios, Belgium.
Read Russell Cottier's reviewAMS Neve have recycled the 1073 mic preamp countless times, and adding digital connectivity is not new for Neve.
Read George Shilling's reviewThe first audio compressor was the Telefunken U3, used at the 1936 Olympics, and in the 1940s came the U13. Then, Rohde & Schwarz developed the third generation U23 in 1953.
Read George Shilling's reviewLeapwing have scored themselves something of a coup by bagging Al Schmitt’s talents and working with him to make something useful for mixing and mastering engineers.
Read George Shilling's reviewThere have been quite a few ‘character’ microphones that provide a non-linear response, e.g. the Bastard BM88. It’s cheap fun for a bit of lo-fi telephoney character if you are going for a wax cylinder sort of sound.
Read George Shilling's reviewSince 2011 Warm Audio of Austin, TX have built up quite a range of studio outboard based on classic designs, marketed at bargain prices. The Bus-Comp is no exception.
Read George Shilling's reviewMany Bettermaker outboard processors have passed through my studio including the knob-less (but still very physical) version of the hardware EQ232P, with its excellent sonics and clever expansion on the Pultec theme.
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