Archive for February, 2012

TEAC NS-X1

Seems that in 2012 an iPod dock simply isn’t up to scratch unless it can wirelessly connect (via AirPlay) to your iDevice and belt out the tunes while you stride around remote dialing in your set. This does of course ditch the incredibly useful feature of charging your pod while it plays, but thankfully the NS-X1 [...]

Blue Icicle

Blue’s Icicle is a (relatively) streamlined way to get your favourite XLR-equipped kit straight into your computer. The most obvious use being to instantly turn any favourite or classic mic into a USB mic in seconds. While it is possible to pop your mic directly onto the Icicle the resultant ‘megawand’ is a little ungainly. [...]

Vienna MIR Pro

Trying to get everything in a track to sit together can be a nightmare, especially if you have a mix of acoustic and electronic sources. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to place instruments where you want them in one soundstage, and move them further away or drag them closer at will? It can [...]

Steven Slate Drums 4 Platinum

Steven Slate is all over the pro audio world these days, what with his high end analogue gear, the excellent Slate Digital plug-ins and his stunning Trigger drum replacement processor. It’s hard to imagine how he found the time to record the thousands of new samples for SSD4. Both Trigger and SSD3 have found great [...]

UAD-2/Little Labs Voice of God

UAD’s first collaboration with Little Labs provided the ‘IBP’ Phase Correction plug-in, which emulated the behaviour of the latter’s original hardware design. With the release of V6.1 of UAD’s software, the pair combine with a second ‘problem-solving’ emulation, this time Little Labs’ Bass Resonance processor, known as the ‘Voice Of God’, as a plug-in for [...]

Sound Radix Surfer EQ

Sound Radix’s first product was Auto-Align, reviewed back in 2010. While Auto-Align is an elegant solution to an age-old problem, the Surfer EQ is a radical new step in the way that we think about EQ. Synthesiser filters can be made to track pitch but EQ has always been a static affair. The Surfer incorporates [...]

Moog Minitaur

Back in 1974 it was easy to make light of stacked heels and the other cosmic clobber that littered the pages of the weekly music papers. That is until one of the high priests of Prog Rock set off a Taurus bass bomb in your local sports arena, prompting to you to apologise for smirking [...]

Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

Focusrite has a well-earned reputation for building high-quality audio interfaces and mic preamps at price-points to cater to users of all requirements and at a wide range of budget points. With its Saffire range of interfaces remaining popular but now a well-established brand, it’s perhaps no surprise that a new, even more compact range has [...]