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Review: Universal Audio UAD-Xpander (Mac/Win) 

By Eli Crews

For eight years, Universal Audio (UA) has offered exquisite digital reproductions of classic analog processors to desktop computer users. With the UAD-Xpander...

Behringer Releases Stompbox Trios 

Behringer has released five new stompbox trios, offering toolkits for metal, jazz, and blues-rock guitars, basses, and keyboards....

TC Electronic Ships Nova System 

Nova System is a floor-based guitar system that combines analog distortion and overdrive with digital control....

Chandler Limited Germanium Compressor  

By Tony DiLorenzo

The Chandler Limited Germanium Compressor ($1,680 [MSRP]) is a huge achievement in dynamics processors in terms of its sound, features, and implementation....

Roger Linn Design AdrenaLinn III 

By Orren Merton

Like the previous two AdrenaLinn units, the AdrenaLinn III ($375) is a modeling guitar-effects processor notable for its impressive beat-synced filter...

Roland VG-99 

By Marty Cutler

The VG-99 leaps past its predecessors in Roland's Virtual Guitar series, the VG-8, VG-8EX, and VG-88. It adds the ability to combine two instrument models,...

Eventide TimeFactor 

By Jon Chappell

It's almost ironic that the TimeFactor ($399) is part of Eventide's Stompbox series, given what the term stompbox conjures versus the wealth of features,...

LINE 6 Pocket POD 

By Mike Levine

Line 6's Pocket POD ($129.99) is a hardware-based guitar modeler that has the distinctive red color and kidney shape of its POD predecessors but is only...

UNIVERSAL AUDIO Neve 88RS and LA-3A (Mac/Win) 

By Eli Crews

Universal Audio's UAD DSP host system has garnered a lot of respect in the audio community...

LINE 6 GearBox Plug-In Gold 3.10 (Mac/Win) 

By Geary Yelton

For guitarists and anyone else who records guitar, the selection of gear-modeling software is greater than ever....

RUPERT NEVE DESIGNS Portico 5033 

By Michael Cooper

The 5033 single-channel, 5-band equalizer is the latest addition to Rupert Neve Designs' quickly expanding Portico line of pro-audio gear....

Behringer Announces New Effects Processors 

Behringer has announced the Phaser PH9, the Vintage Bass VB1, and the Ultra Bass Flanger BUF300....

Line 6 GearBox Plug-In Gold 3.10 (Bonus) 

By Geary Yelton

Line 6 GearBox Plug-In Gold 3.10 is a modeling plug-in bundle for the Mac and Windows....

MOOG MUSIC MF-107 FreqBox 

By Vijith Assar

Over the past few months, pictures showing Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante's pedalboard have made the rounds online and in print....

SOURCE AUDIO Hot Hand Wah and Wireless Adapter 

By Michael Ross

Source Audio's Hot Hand Wah ($349) is an effects stompbox you control with a motion-sensor ring worn on your picking hand....

LITTLE LABS Lmnopre 

By Eli Crews

Jonathan Little of Little Labs continually pushes the boundaries of analog technology with his unique products....

UNIVERSAL AUDIO DCS Remote Preamp 

By Rich Wells

Since the relaunch of the Universal Audio (UA) brand in 1999, the company has put out some very cool reissues as well as new hardware products and software plug-ins....

Universal Audio DCS Remote Preamp (Bonus) 

By Rich Wells

Universal Audio’s DCS Remote Preamp is a 2-channel preamp with extensive routing and digital control functionality....

GUYATONE Ultron and Ultrem 

By Babz

Autowah effects like the Musitronics Mu-Tron III have been around since the '70s. Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground and other funk classics made them popular,...

SOLID STATE LOGICX Logic Alpha Channel 

By Myles Boisen

Solid State Logic better known as SSL has long been famous for state-of-the-art automated mixing boards priced far beyond the budget of the average EM...