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TC ELECTRONIC Classic Booster + Distortion and Classic Sustain + Parametric EQ 

By Orren Merton

Guitarist Orren Merton reviews TC Electronic’s Classic series of effects pedals, the Booster + Distortion and Sustain + Parametric EQ....

Behringer TM300 Tube Amp Pedal Arrives 

BOSS 

By Orren Merton

Boss's new Legend Series of stompboxes are equipped with Roland's COSM modeling technology, and each one is designed to emulate the sound of a classic...

Modcan Announces Two New Modules 

Modcan has announced two new modules for the B Series: the Digital Delay 59B and the Quad Envelope 60B....

SOLID STATE LOGIC Duende 

By Larry the O

Although founded to make solid-state control systems for pipe organs, Solid State Logic (SSL) became widely known for its 4000-series large-format mixing...

PRESONUS DigiMax FS 

By Rusty Cutchin

PreSonus has channeled its knack for designing preamps and handling digital conversion into the DigiMax FS, an 8-channel mic preamp with some interesting...

UNIVERSAL AUDIO UAD-1e Expert Pak (Mac/Win) 

By Larry the O

Universal Audio (UA) was established to further the vision of recording pioneer Bill Putnam, whose company was the first to bear the name. Since Putnam's...

Moog Music Ships the MF-107 FreqBox Moogerfooger 

Moog Music's new Moogerfooger features a VCO that can be hard-synced by the input signal, frequency-modulated by the input signal, and much more....

FOCUSRITE Liquid Mix (Mac/Win) 

By Eli Crews

A convolution revolution is taking place. A huge market is developing to take classic effects-processing chains, sample their effect on audio, and come up with affordable models with all the perks of the digital realm....

Download of the Month: FreeG 

By Len Sasso

FreeG (free) is a channel strip plug-in with extensive metering and customization options. It is intended for use as a track insert effect and is available...

TC Electronic Ships Reissued Classic Pedal Series 

The Classic effects pedals include the TC XII Phaser, the Booster+Distortion, and the Sustain+Parametric Equalizer. Guitarists can now own fresh versions of classic TC Electronic sounds from the 1970s....

AUDIO ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES (AEA) 

By Myles Boisen

Addressing the unique needs of ribbon mics, Audio Engineering Associates (AEA) has released the Ribbon Pre (TRP; $965), a 2-channel solid-state JFET mic...

BOSS RC-50 Loop Station 

By Larry the O

Numerous musical genres employ looping, and numerous hardware and software tools supply looping functionality. One of the latest hardware devices for...

Spectrasonics Releases Universal Binary Update to Stylus RMX 

Spectrasonics has released the official Universal Binary update to Stylus RMX Realtime Groove Module. ...

DUY Releases DaD Tape for RTAS, AU, VST, and MAS 

Now available in RTAS, AU, VST, and MAS formats, DUY's DaD Tape plug-in features real analog tape sound; physical modelling of four tape machines, including an old vintage machine with valve circuitry, a transistor-based machine from the late 1960s, and an operational amplifier-based machine from the 1970s; and more....

Solid State Logic Announces Drumstrip Plug-in 

Solid State Logic's Duende rackmount workstation has a new complement in the form of a drum-processing plug-in called Drumstrip....

Digidesign Reveals Reel Tape Suite and Structure 

New plug-ins were this year's NAMM focus for Digidesign, which lifted the curtain on a set of analog-tape emulations called Reel Tape Suite ($495), as well as an RTAS sampler dubbed Structure (price TBD)....

A-Designs Audio Releases EM-PEQ 

Seeking to capture the legendary sound of the Pultec EQP-1A equalizer, A-Designs Audio has released the EM-PEQ ($1,500) 500-series EQ module....

PIGTRONIX OFO Disnortion 

By Eli Crews

The Pigtronix OFO Disnortion ($249.99) is a 3-tier analog effects box with three rugged footswitches across the bottom edge of its double-wide chassis....

SoundHack Spectral Shapers Released in RTAS and Universal Binary Formats 

San Diego-based SoundHack has released the Spectral Shapers 1.2 plug-in bundle, which is now compatible with Digidesign Pro Tools 7.0 and higher. This new version also adds Universal Binary support to its VST, AU, and RTAS plug-ins....