Can't afford an expensive microphone and preamp, but want to sound like the big guys? The Soyuz Microphones Launcher makes any dynamic mic sound like it was run through a vintage console.
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.
With convolution processing, Transformer is able to load samples, microphone and virtual instrument inputs; and morph them into sounds unexpected and unknown. It adds new sound layers to existing audio this ...
Two new USB interfaces by Steinberg, with transformers by Rupert Neve Designs, no less. Will these worry makers of luxury 2- and 4-preamp units already on the market by Focusrite and others?
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Joe Bonamassa has just announced a new (highly) limited edition signature tweed amp reissue with Fender that you can order exclusively from his website in April.
Golden Age is introducing Premier versions of its affordable Neve 1073-style preamps, the PRE-73 and PREQ-73 Premier. Priced reasonably and built with high-quality components, these could eat up the market!
A $299 Neumann U47 clone? Why not - the technology is there, and $299 is (more or less) what it costs to produce a convincing replica. So give it up for Warm Audio and its WA-47jr mic...
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Audio-Technica are adding a transformer stage to their AT5040 microphone, suitably calling it the AT5047! An interesting design, but it doesn't come cheap.
These two new pedals will certainly be ones to watch out for at this weeks Musikmesse Show in Frankfurt.
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Designed to partner their Omega pre-amp, Kush will have us believe that the new 458A 'Transformer' plug-ins "re-define" tube emulations...
API have announced two new pre-amp variants, the 3124V and the 3124MV. That's right, now there's a 3124 with output volume control!
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Two new Rocker combo amps from British amp company Orange are aiming to be light in weight, but heavy on tone.
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Rupert Neve has finally been persuaded to re-design and release a modern version of the famous 1073 mic pre-amp: The Shelford Channel has arrived.
This is the third time the U195 by David Bock has been brought to market. Now with an improved capsule, the U195 retains it's famous 'FAT' switch.
Building on their budget 'Series Black' range, Lauten Audio release two new condenser model microphones for 'budding recordists'.
