A spring reverb that you can easily dial in and blend into your production, rather than letting it inevitably take center stage of your sound - sign me up, please!
REAMP is a joy to look at with its pastel colors, and judging by the audio examples, the sound is on point. Among the available saturation modes are a casette deck, tape reel, and tube amplifiers.
Phil's Cascade recreates a boutique saturator best described as a hodge-podge of rare, aged analogue components made by brands like Philips, Sprague, Erdmet, Wima and PSW.
Because they think your distortion sucks, Softube designed one with five "completely different" sounding algorithms in addition to high and low-cut filters and a blend knob.
The AES goodness has officially began with the announcement of RND's 5211 Two Channel Microphone Preamplifier. Each channel has a generous 72dB of gain on tap, enough to cover even gain-hungry microphones.
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Fusion contains 5 "completely new" analogue colouration tools and looks like liquid studio gold! We love how SSL has applied plug-in like thinking, especially in terms of versatility, to actual studio hardware.
The V376 audio transformers, class A preamp and driver circuitry are fully emulated, claims the developer, who also added some useful features to make it more usable in a modern production setting.
HoRNeT describes this EQ as "smooth and gentle", citing its ability to provide low-end weight without excessive pumping - one for general tone shaping rather than 'surgical' EQ.
EVO IN's linear phase rotation algorithm is the product of proprietary research and allegedly allows for accomplishing the same effect as the physical movement of a microphone, without introducing latency.
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Some tweaks, a new screen and it has an audio interface built in. Is the Analog Heat MkII a serious vindaloo of an upgrade or just a safe and reliable chicken korma with an onion salad and popadoms?
Solid State Logic has overhauled its plug-ins with the release of SSL Native v6. The update brings a facelift, more than anything, or in SSL's own words — a "remaster". It's also all the SSL you need for USD ...
Evo Channel by developer Flux comprises an overdrive, phase corrector, compressor, EQ, desser, expander, transient/sustain designer, and other processors. Let's have a deeper look!
Kazrog announced version 3 of KClip, its highly-praised mastering clipper, loudness meter & multiband saturator. Rewritten from the ground-up, KClip 3 comes with a big list of new additions!
Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel Strip is a mono unit which combines a mic preamp, three-band EQ, compressor, and stereo-linked sends & returns. It's a Cadillac of a channel strip!
Developer Mathieu Demange debuted a very interesting plug-in, the RX950, an emulation of the entire AD/DA conversion of the classic AKAI S950 sampler, known for its fat and crunchy 12-bit sound.
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Malekko is releasing two interesting new effects pedals, the Downer and Thicken, that offer guitarists something a bit different - maybe that's down to the collaboration with Colin Newman from Wire.
