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New Gear Review: Focusrite Saffire Pro 26
Focusrite’s Saffire PRO 26 is the company’s latest compact, multi-channel FireWire/Thunderbolt™ compatible audio interface. Count on the same high-quality audio design as the rest of ... -
New Gear Review: Maxon Seven Fuzz Elements
Godlyke, Inc. releases seven new Fuzz Element models designed to reproduce the classic and unique sounds of the most desirable vintage fuzz pedals. The secret ... -
New Gear Review: Prism Sound Titan
Prism Sound’s new Titan multi-channel audio interface offers recording professionals the ultimate in quality analog and digital I/O for Macs or PCs at sample rates ... -
Gear Review: Tech 21 Hot-Rod Plexi Pedal
The Hot-Rod Plexi pedal from Tech 21 is the same as reviewed in last year’s New Toys, but it’s now available from all retailers—anywhere. It ... -
New Gear Review: Universal Audio Apollo Twin
Apollo Twin is a desktop Thunderbolt audio interface for Macs that uses the same 24/192 kHz A/D/D/A conversion as the Universal Audio Apollo rack units. ... -
New Gear Review: Eastwest Ghostwriter
GhostWriter, produced by Steven Wilson and EastWest’s Doug Rogers, is a fully-realized virtual instrument with a comprehensive, professional-level sound design processor module and mixer. It ... -
Gear Review: Audio-Technica’s M-Series Headphones
The new M-Series professional headphones from Audio-Technica are specifically designed for the recording studio and are available in four models. The ATH-M20x, ATH-M30x or ATH-M40x ... -
New Gear Review: Fishman Fluence Electric Guitar Pickup
The Fishman Fluence™ pickups are said to avoid the typical problems of passive pickups made with traditional wire-wound coils and eliminate the tonal inconsistencies due ... -
New Gear Review: Genelec M Series Active Monitors
The first two models in the Genelec M Series Bi-amplified Active Monitor line are the M030 and the larger M040. They both use a Natural ... -
New Gear Review: Dean Markley Signature Series Strings
Dean Markley’s Signature Series are strings for bass guitar. These use nickel-plated steel slowly wound over a hex core with a unique core-to-wrap ratio. By ... -
New Gear Review: Mackie VLZ4 Series Mixers
It just gets better and better with Mackie’s updated VLZ4 series of analog compact mixers. They now include Mackie’s acclaimed Onyx microphone pre-amps and deliver ... -
New Gear Review: iZotope Nectar 2
Nectar 2 is a whole new redesign of the original Nectar vocal multi-processor plug-in. The look, GUI and all 11 modules are completely rethought and ... -
New Gear Review: Milliennia Music HV-37 Microphone Pre-Amp
Millennia Music & Media Systems’ HV-37 is a 1U rack cabinet that contains two hardwired HV-35 microphone pre-amp circuit boards—the same boards that go into ... -
New Gear Review: Godlyke TWA Fly Boys Mini Pedals
Totally Wycked Audio has five new mini stomp pedals that are ultra-compact and super-affordable. All feature lightweight, extruded aluminum cases that are a perfect fit ... -
New Gear Review: iZotope Nectar 2
Nectar 2 is a whole new redesign of the original Nectar vocal multi-processor plug-in. The look, GUI and all 11 modules are completely rethought and ... -
New Gear Review: Waves Manny Marroquin Signature Series
The Waves Audio Manny Marroquin Signature Series Collection is a bundle of custom plug-ins developed in collaboration with renowned mixing engineer Manny Marroquin (Bruno Mars, ... -
New Gear Review: Glyph BlackBox Mobile Hard Drives
BlackBox is a new line of small and lightweight mobile hard drives (about the size of an iPhone 4S) from Glyph Production Technologies. The new ... -
New Gear Review: Tascam DA-3000 Master Recorder
The Tascam DA-3000 is the new upgrade to Tascam’s DV-RA1000HD. The DA-3000 records up to 192kHz PCM or 5.6MHz DSD stereo audio files. Unlike 1st ... -
New Gear Review: Cubase 7.5/Cubase Artist 7.5 Updated
Both Cubase and Cubase Artist version 7.5 add workflow enhancements, updates to the included virtual instruments and some new effects. A new feature that it ... -
New Gear Review: Shure SRH1540 Headphones
If it were not for my mix playing out of these new Shure SRH1540 headphones, I wouldn’t even know they were on my head. The ...





