Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

Analog Obsession kick off 2018 with OAQ ‘analogue-sounding’ fixed frequency EQ

Want to try out a different EQ approach than your standard DAW EQ? 2018 kicks off with Analog Obsession's OAQ, a fixed-frequency plug-in with component modelling and a GUI to match.

Warm Audio WA73: the vintage-est 1073 pre-amp clone possible?

Known for some high quality replicas of vintage audio gear, UK brand Warm Audio claims to be doing the old Neve 1073 mic pre-amp justice with its new WA73 family of rack units. Available in single and dual...

Top 5 best free studio and creative plug-ins 2017!

As the years go by, the quality of free stuff doesn't seem to be dropping. This year saw plenty of cool releases - here's our top 5 favourite free plug-ins of 2017. Enjoy!

Audio Damage FilterStation 2 is here with 12 filters and modulations

Filterstation2, Audio Damage's newest release, is a collection of 12 filter topologies - among which are famous designs like the Korg MS20 filter. Is its good GUI concept going to be enough to tempt you?

Nomad Factory’s 80’s Spaces: easy 80’s retro reverb sounds

Nomad Factory and MoReVoX have come up with 80's Spaces, a new reverb plug-in harking back to the era of bad hair and shoulder pads and lots of songs you only like when you've had a few drinks.

Roland recreates its famous JV-1080 sound module in plug-in format

Roland's latest Cloud service update adds a new, old software synthesizer - the JV-1080. According to Roland, the digital recreation has the look, feel, and factory patches of the 90s beast.

Top 5 Best Condenser Microphones 2017

2017 saw microphone manufacturers of all sizes introducing new condensers of wildly different prices. The trend, though, is towards technology growing more affordable. Here are our top 5 favorite condenser ...

Best free plug-ins for Xmas: Angle, Cloudrum & Combear

Santa has early Christmas gifts for audio maniacs: three high-quality free plug-ins released just before the celebration: a tilt eq, a steel drum sampling instrument and a parallel compressor. Ho, ho, ho!

Top 5 best studio and creative effect plug-ins

As 2017 nears its end, it's time to round up Gearnews' top 5 favorite plug-ins for this year. Putting this list together was difficult, for the past 12 months saw so many awesome releases!

Klevgrand Grand Finale: A sleek and (very) dark new finalizer mastering plug-in

Grand Finale is a new audio finalizer processing plug-in. And it's dark. Yet also sleek and functional. But has Klevgrand got the balance right between complex processing and a simplified workflow?

Solid State Logic (SSL) acquired by Allen & Heath owner Audiotonix

The famed console maker is being acquired by Audiotonix, whose portfolio includes DiGiCo, DiGiGrid, Calrec and Allen & Heath. Hopefully SSL will benefit from Audiotonix' support and resources...

Acustica Audio Crimson plug-in blends analog distortion and compression

Acustica Audio has released an ambitious new compression and distortion plug-in to its Aqua series, saying that Crimson can do both "precise" and "colourful". We take a first look.

Best free plug-ins this week: Organteq Alpha, 2 synths, and Phasis!

This week saw at least four high quality releases that you can have absolutely free! Just say the magic word at the... hey, there's not even a magic word. Just four excellent free plug-ins...

Phasis: a free holiday gift from Native Instruments!

To celebrate the holidays, Native Instruments released a brand new free effect called Phasis. As you may have guessed from the name, this is a phaser plug-in. It borrows its sounds from classic phaser units...

iMPC Pro 2 brings audio tracks and time stretching to the iPad groovebox

iMPC Pro 2 is officially here! Developed by Retronyms and AKAI, the new version turns the groovebox app into a fully functional song creation tool not unlike Apple's GarageBand...

New app Descript lets you edit audio like a word document

A startup called Descript has the technology to generate a text transcription from an audio file and let you make changes to it by editing text like you would do with a document in a word processor...

AudioThing Type A: Enhancer plug-in based on 70s-era tape noise reduction

Type A emphasises high frequencies during the recording stage, and at playback time, the signal is attenuated along with the characteristic tape hiss. Worth a throw? We reckon it might.

Best free plug-ins this week: Isol8, Retrox, Ambient Reverb 4

Want to check out some free plug-ins released this week? We have a brand new monitoring tool, a cool little synth rompler, and an interesting reverb to show you. Let's have a look!

Trigger synths and effects with the new HY-RPE step sequencer

Aside from this being a great-looking plug-in, HY-RPE has 8 block chainer units in addition to the 8 grid sequencer tracks, and supports step velocity, probability, and trigger timing features...

Elite A2-5: a contender for the ulimate in American portable PAs

Los Angeles' Elite Acoustics Engineering announced the A2-5 Mini Live Performance Amplifier. The speaker contains a rechargeable battery that's good for more than eight hours of play time on a single charge...

Choose from 5 analogue circuits in Shattered Glass Audio’s Inferno plug-in

Inferno is a simulator of five distortion and saturation circuits meant for adding character, color, and warmth to audio. Each circuit is based on an actual hardware unit, its maker says.

Warm up your audio with Overloud’s Sculptube tube distortion and saturation plug-in

Sculptube can be used for "warming up" audio with subtle distortion and coloration, overdriving the input for typical valve distortion, and as an exciter which enhances top frequencies with natural harmonics...

Rode unveils its first ever USB audio interface, the AI-1

Out of the blue, microphone manufacturer Rode announced its first-ever USB audio interface, the AI-1. It's currently sold as part of the Rode AI-1 Complete Studio Kit bundle, which includes the Rode NT-1 mic...

FabFilter releases Pro-L2 True Peak limiter, watch overview video

FabFilter announced that Pro-L2, the next version of its highly regarded limiter plug-in, is coming December 5th, 2017. The company published an overview video, available below, to promote the release...