The Rectifier Recording Preamp is a guitar preamplifier that emulates a combination of a Mesa/Boogie Dual Recitifer amp head and a 4x12 Rectifier speaker cabinet....
The Ditto Box ($399) is a tube DI with a new wrinkle: a variable gain control that provides a whopping 30 dB of gain. Capable of dishing out robust line-level...
The A.R.T. DPS (DI/O Preamp System) dual-channel, tube-hybrid mic preamp/A/D converter features Variable Valve Voicing ("V3"), which lets you choose the amount of tube saturation and the EQ profile via 15 presets....
Radial Engineering’s JD-7 Injector guitar-signal distribution amp and router takes the direct box to another level, allowing you to route a guitar or bass signal to as many as seven different amps or amp simulators without ground loops or phase problems. In addition, you can reamp: record your instrument direct, then route the recorded track through the JD-7’s line-level inputs and route them to multiple miked guitar amplifiers....
In the '70s and early '80s, Electro-Harmonix pedals were ubiquitous in the garages and basements of North America. The company's line of effects pedals...
The latest studio tool from Alesis is the CLX-440, a four-channel digital dynamics processor that includes compressor, limiter, expander, and gate functions,...
Imagine being able to take every effects processor in your rack reverbs, delays, dynamics, and EQs and shoehorn them into one box. As long as we're dreaming,...
Analogue Solutions has upped the ante in the stompbox filter wars by introducing the Phobos Filtered Coffee ($325). The feature-packed single-rackspace...
As a harp player who admits to being something of a spring-reverb fanatic I own not only a reissue '63 Fender Tube Reverb tank, but also a Demeter RV-1...
If you're looking for a compressor with vintage styling and loads of sonic personality, look elsewhere. The FMR RNC1773 (RNC is short for Really Nice...
Back before outboard preamps were all the rage, Aphex Systems made a splash with its model 107, a dual-channel mic preamp priced for the personal-studio...
For more than 15 years, Summit Audio has been a leading U.S.-based maker of high-end tube gear. The company's latest offering, the TLA-50 Tube Leveler...
The Valvotronics Tube Amplified Direct Box ($400) offers some interesting features that should appeal to electric-bass guitarists. A bass tilt switch...
Not content to rest on its laurels after it debuted the stunning VoicePrism last year, TC-Helicon has unveiled the next generation of vocal processors....
Since the 1997 launch of its much-lauded Auto-Tune plug-in, Antares has become best friend to scores of pitch-challenged vocalists. Auto-Tune has saved...
Adding to a long list of groundbreaking products including the LinnDrum, the LM-1, the Linn 9000, and the Akai MPC-series workstations Roger Linn has...
The SRS Labs Pro 220 is a 2-channel processor that enhances the spatial aspects of stereo source material based on the way the human ear localizes natural...
The old art-school adage Less is more has had its day, but it's clearly out-of-date when the topic of guitar processors comes up. For today's guitar slinger...
One of three units in Line 6's new Studio Modeler line, the Echo Pro incorporates technologies from the company's DL4 Delay Modeler stompbox and Echo...
The PH-16 ($339) is a dual eight-stage phase shifter from Germany's Vermona Engineering. Although the device looks modest, you can use the phase shifters...
Ironman composer Ramin Djawadi talks film-and-TV scoring. Go
What's New: Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 XE and Guitar Rig Session, Rob Papen's Predator synth, and Haunted House Records's Electronic Critters, a sampling CD of circuit-bent toys.Go
