February 2022 Magazine Contents

These results celebrate the ‘best in class’ category Winners, and Highly Commended close contenders, launched or reviewed in the period from September 2020 through to the end of August 2021.

API have been making excellent solid‑state outboard and consoles for decades, but their latest venture sees them using valves for the very first time.

Could a small step for Logic’s version number represent a giant leap for music production?

ODC offers six distinct delay algorithms, all named after cities in Arizona...

These valve‑based pedals offer DSP speaker emulation, USB audio interfacing and comprehensive EQ.

Pedal legends Boss have now built their clever synth engine into a regular guitar — no hex pickups required!

Those familiar with the YouTube channel of Eurorack expert Mylar Melodies may remember a particular video in which he deftly...

Earthworks continue their mission to bring small‑diaphragm capacitor mics to new markets.

The Electro‑Harmonix Memory Man is one of the longest‑running and most popular analogue delay pedals around and...

Unlike many of its competitors, the ErgoLab Stealth series of chairs is designed specifically for use in the studio.

An EQ that gives you separate control over the transient and sustain portions could be more useful than you think!

Imagine uses physical modelling to let you create any acoustic instrument you can, er, imagine.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Slow offers a selection of mainly gentle sounds that would slot well into ambient or New Age compositions...

Main studio monitors these days are packed full of technology — but that wasn’t always the case, and it took an innovative British hi‑fi brand to drag mains out of the dark ages.

As the name implies, Tupe emulates both tape and tubes — but it goes a bit further than most other saturators.

With both a hardware pedal and a plug‑in version included, this classy‑sounding reverb offers more options than most.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Need the distinctive tones of a dobro guitar, but can't play the real thing? IK Multimedia’s The Resonator can help plug your skill gap...

Can a solid‑state microphone really give you the sound of an AKG C12?

Korg add more instruments to their growing stable of software classics.

Swedish mic manufacturers Pearl and Milab have been doing things differently for 80 years — with outstanding results.

PreSonus have updated their ribbon‑tweetered R series with a set of tonal adjustment options.

Qu‑Bit have been on a progressive Eurorack journey for the last five years or so. Hark back to the much lauded Chord...

Roland’s popular sampler gets a major update.

Not content with having created arguably the world’s best preamp booster, Royer’s boffins decided to make it better.

Sennheiser’s new studio headphones offer some serious bang for your buck.

Every engineer needs portable problem solvers, and this offering from Sonnect Audio could become a constant companion.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a simple, intuitive way to place sources in your immersive, surround or binaural soundstage? Well, now there is!

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. These affordable mini‑libraries provide users with the immediately recognisable and colourful instrumental combinations frequently heard in classic movie scores.

The WaveLab department at Steinberg have been very busy indeed...

Toontrack add a fine and upstanding acoustic expansion for EZbass.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This 3GB of sample content is aimed at the more raucous end of the drumming scale; think rock, garage, punk and grunge.

Zaor’s Miza range promises smart, affordable, self‑assembly furniture to suit every studio.

Tonic is designed to work out the key of a piece of music and to suggest musical scales and chords that might work with it.

The Input Transformer can do all sorts of useful things to incoming MIDI signals. Let's find out...

We show you how to put your own stamp on Live 11’s new sonic content.

DP11 brings even more functionality to the unique and powerful Chunks feature.

Grammy Award‑winning American producer Howard Benson discusses how he achieved the drum sound on POD’s 2001 hit ‘Youth Of The Nation’.

For their latest album, Crawler, Idles guitarist Mark Bowen adopted the role of producer for the first time.

When you’re polishing a nine‑piece vocal band like TWICE to K‑pop perfection, organisation is essential!

Speed up your mix workflow with these handy Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts.

We show you how to configure your inputs, outputs and audio routing in PreSonus' flexible DAW.

With your lead vocal performance comped and tuned, and its timing tightened, is there anything else to do before you start mixing?

The right EQ settings can make a mix — and the wrong ones can make a mess. Our in‑depth guide will help you get more from this all‑important tool.

I need to align some analogue gear to work with digital audio embedded in a video broadcast... what dBFS should my digital PPM read at the end of the chain?

Is your track ready for mastering? How can you find a manager? Does that sound out of tune?

Sound On Sound's Editor...

Zoë Blade and Nina Richards talk about their individual music careers and how they came together to create the Stepper Acid Eurorack Sequencer.

We chat to Andrew Ostler, the man behind one of the UK’s most eminent Eurorack developers, Expert Sleepers.

Japanese producer and artist Hinako Omori receives the SOS desert island treatment...

When you talk to manufacturers and developers whose work has been honoured in the annual SOS Awards, you’re in no doubt as to how much importance they attach to winning...

Should arranging play a role in music education?

David Gould, Director of Audio Content Solutions at Dolby Labs, talks to Hugh Robjohns about immersive audio and how Dolby Atmos works.

Hugues Vinet, of the IRCAM electronic music institute in Paris, talks to Paul Tingen about their work in software, sound design and AI composition.