61 Results for "transformer"
Best free plug-ins this week: TesslaSE MkII, Dirty Spring and NANDroid
05 Dec 2021 in Studio
This week, we’re celebrating the return of a freeware classic. We’ve also got a spring reverb and an experimental synth. Here’s TesslaSE MkII, Dirty Spring and NANDroid.
Wavegrove Maji: transformer plug-in saturates and compresses using physics
22 Sep 2021 in Studio
Maji works like a kind of transformer that is "pushed" beyond its natural limit to generate analog compression and saturation. In a plug-in!
Buzz Audio Velox: A boutique stereo optical compressor (that’s not an LA2A!)
04 Aug 2021 in Studio
A boutique stereo compressor, Velox is a reworking of a 1999 optical unit, available in two versions with an optional Lundahl output transformer.
Tone Projects Kelvin Tone Shaper: A dual-stage saturation and passive EQ plug-in
Kelvin combines tube, diode, and transformer zing with detailed tone shaping from its EQ bands and stereo widening through harmonic distortion.Rast Sound Transformer: add morphing resonances to any audio track
27 Apr 2021 in Studio
Rast Sound Transformer lets you turn your audio signals into something completely different using a set of four modulated resonators.
Rupert Neve Designs MBC: A/D converter with analog drive paths
06 Oct 2020 in Studio
Here's a posh new way to get 2 channels of analog audio into your DAW: Rupert Neve Designs has launched the MBC Master Buss Converter with selectable analog drive paths and limiters.
Kush Audio Silika: a digital compressor that sounds just as good as analog?
03 Sep 2020 in Studio
Kush Audio says that its new Silika compressor plug-in sounds just as good as analog hardware. What does Silika have to offer, and can it live up to these claims?
Korneff Audio Pawn Shop Comp 2.0 lets you swap tubes, transformers and more
05 Jul 2020 in Studio
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.
Can Lightning Boy Audio 2020’s Instrument Transformer upgrade your tone?
17 Jun 2020 in Guitar
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.
Radial HDI: is this the everything active DI box?
08 May 2020 in Studio
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!
Best free plug-ins this week: Lovend, Transature and CubicPadSynth
08 Mar 2020 in Studio
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!
Origin Effects Cali76-TX and Cali76-TX-L pedals: Reissuing a classic 1176 emulation
12 Dec 2019 in Guitar
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...
Heritage Audio HA-609A: Neve-style dual mono/stereo compressor/limiter
10 Dec 2019 in Studio
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 announces the AnyTesla audio transformer modelling plug-in
11 Nov 2019 in Studio
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.
Turn your SM58 into a killer vintage mic with the Soyuz Microphones Launcher
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.AES 2018: Rupert Neve Designs 5211 2-channel mic pre
16 Oct 2018 in Studio
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.
New SSL Fusion hardware processor: SSL’s first new EQ circuit for over 25 years
01 Oct 2018 in Studio
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.
Digital Brain Instruments’ Transformer is a sample mangler and VST host
12 Sep 2018 in Studio
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 ...
Musikmesse 2018: Steinberg teams up with Rupert Neve Designs on new USB interfaces
10 Apr 2018 in Studio
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?
Fender limited edition Joe Bonamassa ‘59 Twin-Amp finally available!
28 Mar 2018 in Guitar
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 PRE-73 Premier and PREQ-73 Premier 1073-style preamps are coming
12 Feb 2018 in Studio
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!
Warm Audio WA-47jr – the Neumann U47 replica for $299 is a thing now
11 Nov 2017 in Studio
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...
Musikmesse 2017: Audio-Technica display fresh approach with AT5047 studio mic
05 Apr 2017 in Studio
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.
