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Puremagnetik Granule granular delay – It grains for days!
23 Apr · Granule has been inspired by the Red Panda Particle guitar pedal and works by chopping audio into tiny grains. These are routed through a looper, a spectral pitch shifter, and a variable delay line.
The Audiophile Circuits League take on a Monster Multi-Function Discrete VCO
23 Apr · The Audiophile Circuits League are here to protect us from mediocre oscillators with the Multi-Function Discrete VCO. Cool things include 5 waveshapes and pulse width modulation on both main oscillator and sub.
Sony C-100 dual-capsule condenser microphone hits markets
22 Apr · Sony says this model continues the legacy of the classic C-800/C-800G dual-capsule model and offers an extremely broad frequency range — from 20Hz all the way up to 50kHz.
Cultivating sound from plants at Assiniboine Park Conservatory
22 Apr · The Assiniboine Park Conservatory is over 100 years old and falling apart. Winnipeg artist Helga Jakobson is taking recordings of the plants bioelectric energy and transforming it into music before it's gone.
Behringer to clone Roland System 100M and somehow makes Eurorack look boring
22 Apr · Uli Behringer shows the modular community his plans for cloning the Roland System 100m and bringing it to Eurorack for €89 a pop. While tremendously exciting it also looks a bit dull and uninspiring.
Pitch Pilot: A cool new pitch bending add-on for your guitar
21 Apr · You want country style bends, but don't want to ruin your guitar with routing? Well then forget the B-Bender and get yourself a Pitch Pilot instead, it's simple to fit and easy to use.
Coming soon: Overloud Comp G, a feature-loaded take on the SSL Bus Compressor
20 Apr · Recreating the circuit to the best of its team's abilities, Overloud also added parallel compression, mid-side processing, low-cut filter on the sidechain circuit, and continuous time & ratio selection.
LoopLords Genetix brings the Sega Genesis sound back to life once more
20 Apr · Genetix features 100 multi-sampled FM sounds inspired by various Genesis games' soundtracks. Can this plug-in make the intricacies of the Genesis sound chip available to modern productions?
That headless Gibson SG meme is actually a real guitar!
20 Apr · If you have ever searched the web for broken Gibson headstocks, the chances are you will have seen this infamous headless Gibson SG. We all thought it was a Photoshop fake, but it turns out its real!
TC Electronic Aeon String Sustainer: The new EBow in town?
20 Apr · The new TC Electronic Aeon String Sustainer has just been announced and it looks like it could well be giving the EBow a run for its money pretty soon!
ZVex Vertical Fuzz Factory Silicon tames the temperature madness!
20 Apr · Updating the germanium-based Fuzz Factory that can get temperamental when used in a hot live environment, this sleek new silicon-based version will be way easier to squeeze onto your pedalboard.
Pittsburgh Modular reveal new Primary Oscillator ahead of debut at Superbooth
20 Apr · Pittsburgh Modular announce their third new thing so far this year after the Microvolt and Sequencer. It's called Primary Oscillator and features cascading analog waveform sculpting. Nice!
Ernie Ball rolls out Expression Tremolo, a treadle-operated tremolo pedal
19 Apr · With Slow Rise, Slow Fall, Sine, Square and Harmonic tremolo effects all onboard, this new foot treadle operated tremolo effect looks like a really well thought out pedal design, but how does it sound?
Walrus Audio Luminary V2 launches next week for some polyphonic madness
19 Apr · The Walrus has updated the Luminary pedal to V2 - this polyphonic quad octave generator has plenty of tweak-ability and options available, with an expression pedal input.