Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

NAMM 2018: Schertler to out compact Arthur Prime live mixers

While the number of channels and other parameters will remain fixed initially, Schertler plans to offer the deep customization options its Arthur desks at a later stage...

Best free plug-ins this week: Bias FX LE, RS-MET ToolChain, One Track Orchestra, HY-TP2

This week, we get a taste of Bias FX with its LE version available as a gift from the peeps at Propellerheads. And a multi-effect processing plug-in for those who like chains... Processing chains, that is.

NAMM 2018: JoeCo Cello desktop interface with low-key looks but plenty of punch

JoeCo's new Cello desktop interface will offer the picky professional a quality, compact unit with plenty of tech under the hood - and a $899 price tag for two mic inputs (and 16 ADAT inputs)...

Turbine: design sounds with fighter jet engine simulations!

Turbine's sound generation capabilities stem from simulations of actual engines. Said virtual engines, among which you will find more than a few fighter jets, are supposedly authentic recreations...

NAMM 2018: HARMAN takes on budget studio monitors with JBL 3 Series MkII

The new JBL 3 Series MkII studio monitors look just like their 2013 incarnations, but there's been some fine-tuning under the hood, leading, JBL says, to greater linearity and lower harmonic distortion.

NAMM 2018: Lewit’s new LCT 441 FLEX mic supports 8 polar patterns

Ahead of the NAMM 2018 musical trade show, Austrian microphone maker Lewitt introduced a new multi-pattern studio microphone - the LCT 441 FLEX. A follow up to the LCT 440 PURE studio mic, the new model ...

NAMM 2018: Roland and Zoom battle it out for the hand-held recorder market

Ahead of NAMM 2018, Roland and Zoom each announced a new field recorder product, the R-07 and the H1n respectively. Both have some nifty features to lure musicians, journalists, podcasters and the like.

Cosmosf FX5: convolution-powered audio mangling with sci-fi interface

Attention audio manglers and sound designers: Cosmosf FX5 is here, and it's pretty nuts. A live audio stochastic processor, it's got a GUI like spaceship terminals in sci-fi movies with cryptic controls to ...

Analog Obsession kick off 2018 with OAQ ‘analogue-sounding’ fixed frequency EQ

Want to try out a different EQ approach than your standard DAW EQ? 2018 kicks off with Analog Obsession's OAQ, a fixed-frequency plug-in with component modelling and a GUI to match.

Warm Audio WA73: the vintage-est 1073 pre-amp clone possible?

Known for some high quality replicas of vintage audio gear, UK brand Warm Audio claims to be doing the old Neve 1073 mic pre-amp justice with its new WA73 family of rack units. Available in single and dual...

Top 5 best free studio and creative plug-ins 2017!

As the years go by, the quality of free stuff doesn't seem to be dropping. This year saw plenty of cool releases - here's our top 5 favourite free plug-ins of 2017. Enjoy!

Audio Damage FilterStation 2 is here with 12 filters and modulations

Filterstation2, Audio Damage's newest release, is a collection of 12 filter topologies - among which are famous designs like the Korg MS20 filter. Is its good GUI concept going to be enough to tempt you?

Nomad Factory’s 80’s Spaces: easy 80’s retro reverb sounds

Nomad Factory and MoReVoX have come up with 80's Spaces, a new reverb plug-in harking back to the era of bad hair and shoulder pads and lots of songs you only like when you've had a few drinks.

Roland recreates its famous JV-1080 sound module in plug-in format

Roland's latest Cloud service update adds a new, old software synthesizer - the JV-1080. According to Roland, the digital recreation has the look, feel, and factory patches of the 90s beast.

Top 5 Best Condenser Microphones 2017

2017 saw microphone manufacturers of all sizes introducing new condensers of wildly different prices. The trend, though, is towards technology growing more affordable. Here are our top 5 favorite condenser ...

Best free plug-ins for Xmas: Angle, Cloudrum & Combear

Santa has early Christmas gifts for audio maniacs: three high-quality free plug-ins released just before the celebration: a tilt eq, a steel drum sampling instrument and a parallel compressor. Ho, ho, ho!

Top 5 best studio and creative effect plug-ins

As 2017 nears its end, it's time to round up Gearnews' top 5 favorite plug-ins for this year. Putting this list together was difficult, for the past 12 months saw so many awesome releases!

Klevgrand Grand Finale: A sleek and (very) dark new finalizer mastering plug-in

Grand Finale is a new audio finalizer processing plug-in. And it's dark. Yet also sleek and functional. But has Klevgrand got the balance right between complex processing and a simplified workflow?

Solid State Logic (SSL) acquired by Allen & Heath owner Audiotonix

The famed console maker is being acquired by Audiotonix, whose portfolio includes DiGiCo, DiGiGrid, Calrec and Allen & Heath. Hopefully SSL will benefit from Audiotonix' support and resources...

Acustica Audio Crimson plug-in blends analog distortion and compression

Acustica Audio has released an ambitious new compression and distortion plug-in to its Aqua series, saying that Crimson can do both "precise" and "colourful". We take a first look.

Best free plug-ins this week: Organteq Alpha, 2 synths, and Phasis!

This week saw at least four high quality releases that you can have absolutely free! Just say the magic word at the... hey, there's not even a magic word. Just four excellent free plug-ins...

Phasis: a free holiday gift from Native Instruments!

To celebrate the holidays, Native Instruments released a brand new free effect called Phasis. As you may have guessed from the name, this is a phaser plug-in. It borrows its sounds from classic phaser units...

iMPC Pro 2 brings audio tracks and time stretching to the iPad groovebox

iMPC Pro 2 is officially here! Developed by Retronyms and AKAI, the new version turns the groovebox app into a fully functional song creation tool not unlike Apple's GarageBand...

New app Descript lets you edit audio like a word document

A startup called Descript has the technology to generate a text transcription from an audio file and let you make changes to it by editing text like you would do with a document in a word processor...