“Modular synths offer endless scope for sound manipulation, but at Superbooth, you’ll rarely see anyone actually playing one.” I write this column with two recent events in m ...

When AKG’s Vienna factory closed in 2017, it seemed 60 years of innovation in microphone manufacture had run its course. Martin Siedl, however, had other ideas, and established a ...

Signum Audio’s Skye Dynamics is a three-stage processor intended primarily to sound “clean and transparent”. Of course, since every DAW ships with a usable set of dynamics pr ...

Suppose you want a tiny, lightweight, portable ASIO-driven audio interface for recording voice and guitar. In that case, the AudioBox Go from PreSonus could be the one to slip into ...

Among Novation’s highly regarded MIDI controller keyboard range are the successful and popular Launchkey models that provide integrated support for Ableton Live. Novation have no ...

Since their first release in 2011, Warm Audio have gone from a ‘man in a garage’ operation to an established name in the pro audio world, producing microphones and other studio ...

Based in Hong Kong, OneOdio have spent the last decade building up quite an impressive range of headphones, earphones and accessories. The aim is clearly to offer professional feat ...

I can hardly believe it’s almost two decades since I first acquired an OctoPre! I’ve used several of its successors too and have been broadly happy with all of them. The few sm ...

Back in 2014 Moog released a small and rather unusual synth called the Werkstatt ø1. Originally conceived as a project for Moogfest 2014’s engineering workshop and never intende ...