Soundcraft MH3: Versatility
Around this time, the renowned sound company specializing in mixing consoles chose to base its new products on what it calls “Dual-Purpose Consoles,” that is, consoles with a…
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SPL Channel One: A Complete Vocal Channel
To talk about SPL (Sound Performance Lab) is to talk about professional audio products that have often broken new ground in analog signal processing. Transient Designer, Charisma…
Dragon by Steven Slate. Classic Sound.
You may have already heard of the Dragon. Not surprisingly, it's one of the most successful pieces of gear of 2010... This compressor isn't just another unit "inspired by" or…
SPL Frontliner Tested. The Premium Voice Channel.
Exactly three years ago we had the chance to test the Channel One, a channel strip from SPL. As you'd expect, the unit from Sound Performance Lab stood out not only in sound…
Space Station SST-206: The Reissue of a Classic Processor
The Space Station SST-282, sold by Ursa Major, was one of the first digital reverbs to appear (in the late seventies), alongside the now legendary EMT 250 and Quad Eight CPR-16…
Phoenix Valve Compressor: Made by Hand in England
The Phoenix is a tube compressor made entirely by hand. In the midst of the digital whirlwind, in which manufacturers mass-produce their products and in whose specifications terms…
Matt Pre-Comp WL 1942. Tubes with Plenty of Character.
Does anyone really know the Matt Audio brand? I admit that before evaluating the electronics we bring to these pages, I knew absolutely nothing about them. Where are they from?…
Lexicon MX200. The genius of a master.
Anyone who has set up a home studio, or who wanted to gradually put together a live sound rig on "little" money, will at some point have used one "cheap" effects processor or…
LA Audio G400: A Classic Renewed
British company SCV, owner of LA Audio, has finally renewed its classic four-channel gate, giving it new features, improving its overall quality (just look at the spec sheet) and…
Presonus BlueMax Smart Compressor. Small but Clever.
In early 1995 the American company PRESONUS appeared with the award-winning DPC-8, and since then it has kept to a philosophy of producing gear of proven quality at a reasonable…
Studio Electronics PRE2, a Neve 1272-Style Preamp: Why Not?
It is very hard to give an objective opinion about something that comes close to your idea of how things should be: you lose your honorable objectivity and suddenly you hear…
SM PR8 Mark 2: Beyond What the Price Suggests
Putting together a recording studio today means turning a computer into the complete system. This statement, unthinkable twenty years ago, has become the most compelling reality…
Alesis CLX440. Digital Dynamics.
Less than ten years ago, an approach like the one we have before us today would have seemed impossible: an affordable dynamics processor based on a digital environment…
Behringer: Psychoacoustic Excitement, Aural Magic
How is it possible? Hearing whispering voices clearly among all these instruments.Those crystal-clear cymbals, the hi-hat with such presence and finesse. That horn section…
SPL Cabulator, Warming Up the Tubes
SPL is a fairly well-known company in the audio world. Preamps, harmonizers, compressors… This company offers a thousand options, but today it takes a shot at a power soak and…
BSS DPR-944: Parametric Compressor and Gate
As part of its Opal series, BSS presents a precise, simple tool offering 2 channels of audio gating and 2 channels of compression, parametric and independent, in a single rack…
Rane C4 and G4: Quad Compressor and Quad Gate
Within its Rane Digital range, RANE offers us two units with four channels each, dedicated to handling two of the most important tasks both in the studio and live: "compressing"…
ARX DDP 1: Compressor
The advantages of using an audio compressor in live or studio applications are enormous. Compressors give us better control over a signal's dynamics, and they can also produce…
Peavey CEL-2A Compressor Review
Peavey is moving into the signal-processing market with some very new, feature-packed units at more-than-competitive prices. So we are going to look at three of these devices…
Korg TP2. When Little Goes a Long Way.
Look at what I do, look at what I cost. How many times have we tried to put together a balanced setup and, even though we've taken care to install a magnificent program on a…