Ever wanted to experiment with different tubes, transformers and transistors in a compressor? Pawn Shop Comp 2.0 by Korneff Audio lets you do just that. The plug-in has just received a major update.
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Lightning Boy Audio says its new 1:1 passive 2020 Instrument Transformer can add some studio grade sparkle to your guitar tone, but could also be useful on bass and synth.
With its transformer-based saturation and built-in Opto compressor, the new Radial HDI is both a tone box as well as a high-end DI box, rolled into one!
This week's collection of free plug-ins includes two new releases by Analog Obsession and an experimental wavetable synthesizer. That's three new freeware plug-ins to keep you busy this Sunday!
To celebrate the 10,000th Cali76 Compact Deluxe pedal, Origin Effects is re-releasing the Cali76 large-format stompbox in two versions - that lack one useful feature of its smaller sibling...
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Heritage Audio has introduced the HA-609A diode bridge compressor/limiter. The dual mono/stereo compressor/limiter offers two linkable channels with an entirely discrete class A circuit design.
Sknote has announced AnyTesla, an input and output transformer modelling plug-in. If you mix "in the box", AnyTesla could be a great way to add analogue warmth and saturation to your tracks.
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.
