“Comping is tedious, frustrating, annoying and depressing, and that’s on a good day.” Audio engineering can be an endlessly rewarding and satisfying occupation. I love the ch ...

Back in SOS June 2021, I reviewed Slate Digital’s FG-2A compressor plug-in, and judged it to be amongst the best software emulations of the Urei/Teletronix LA-2A tube opto hardwa ...

“FAC Drumkit is a masterclass in combining ease of use with functionality.” There are a number of notable iOS music app developers who always seem to offer something that is bo ...

Despite the popularity of mini line-array systems for small venues, there’s still a healthy market for the more conventional box-style speaker. That’s an area Alto have much ex ...

Supporting all the common Mac and Windows plug-in formats, the Focusrite FAST series is aimed at the musician who may be less confident fiddling with arcane parameters. FAST Verb i ...

Pulsar’s 1178 plug-in, for AAX, AU and VST2/3 hosts on Mac/Windows, is a modelled FET compressor that boasts oodles of features and controls to make it much more useful than most ...

Grammy and Emmy Award-winning American composer Danny Elfman first came to public attention in the 1980s as leader of new wave outfit Oingo Boingo. In the 1990s, he segued into fil ...

Austrian Audio are a young company with a 70-year heritage. When AKG’s long-established Vienna headquarters closed, the core design team regrouped and founded a new business. The ...

Multimedia have certainly set themselves a task with the UNO Synth series. They don’t have a generations-old in the hardware synth world to or it, à la Sequential or Korg, inste ...