Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

ART TubeMix ships from mid-August: a 5-channel mixer with tube preamps

What's a TubeMix? This is ART's compact five-channel mixer featuring two tube microphone/instrument preamps and a built-in USB audio interface. Wooden sides and VU meters asidе, it's a rather no-frills ...

Order a Shure SM58 in your favourite colour via Colorware

If you ever wanted to inject a dose of personality in your trusty Shure SM58, you now have the opportunity to choose the color of the mic and windshield yourself, thanks to the master colorists at Colorware!

Radial DiNET DAN-TX and DAN-RX: Dante-enabled DI boxes

Radial, maker of assorted live sound and studio gear, is shipping its DAN-TX and DAN-RX. These sturdy steel DI boxes are capable of sending or receiving two channels of analogue audio over a digital Dante ...

HoRNet Tape plug-in: four tape machines in one for that vintage vibe

HoRNet thinks your digital recordings sorely lack the distinct hiss, flutter, and warm musical saturation of magnetic tape. Tape is another but intriguing cure for this problem...

PreSonus AudioBox 96 Studio: a $199 recording bundle with a full-blown DAW

Yet another all-in bundle of DAW, interface, condenser mic and headphones! Not the first, but the best value package of its ilk we've seen yet! Here's why PreSonus AudioBox 96 Studio is killer value for money.

Logic Pro X 10.3.2 update: three new Drummers and many improvements

Now at version 10.3.2, the $200 Mac-only DAW grows with the addition of three new Drummers, new ready-made Drummer loops, several improvements to Alchemy, the Touch Bar, and tons of fixes and improvements!

Live Performer: a free, streamlined AU plug-in host with MIDI features

If you are looking for a simple, yet capable plug-in host so that you can run your favorite AU effects and instruments in a live context, Live Performer might be just the thing. The streamlined Mac app is ...

Fender muscles in on budget PA market with Fighter 10 and 12 powered speakers

At Summer NAMM 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee, Fender unveiled a new series of powered speakers – the Fighter Series. They are designed for small to mid-sized venues and are priced within reach of bands and ...

Free plug-ins this week: a delay, synthesizer, and three more useful tools!

Ready for the best free plug-ins this week? There's a delay, a compressor, a Korg-style synth, a console emulation and a tape saturation effect - phew!

Yonac KASPAR: a monster 24-osc synth is heading for the iPad!

Yonac KASPAR looks like it could be a great iOS alternative to "monster" synths like KV331's SynthMaster, with 24 oscillators, 8 filters, 8 arpeggiators, and 2 effect buses - running simultaneously...

Summer NAMM 2017: Eventide UltraTap delay brings H9 sounds to your DAW

At Summer NAMM 2017, Eventide announced the UltraTap delay plug-in. It comes from the company's H9 Harmonizer multi-effect, complete with the original presets and newly added ones for use in DAWs...

Mackie refreshes MR studio monitors with ‘Acoustic Space Control’

Mackie has overhauled its MR studio monitors, stressing features designed to adapt speaker performance to less-than-optimal acoustic spaces. But are these a great advance over other monitors like JBL's LSR ...

BandLab unveils Link, 3 cheap, compact on-the-go audio interfaces

BandLab, the online platform for collaborative music making, is launching three no-frills audio in/out boxes designed for "plug in and go" operation with both computers and smartphones. And they're cheap, too.

Waves’ Chris Lord-Alge MixDown plug-in: Radio-ready mixes made simple?

Waves' new CLA MixDown plug-in is designed to simulate two of Chris Lord-Alge's mix buss compression chains, with added console overdrive and a general purpose EQ to enhance bass and treble...

Synergy R1 by Audified: a DAW-controlled hardware reverb and saturation unit

Audified has created a new hardware reverb/saturator and software controller combination – the Synergy R1. It features seven types of reverb algorithms, paired with three analog saturation modes...

Free Plug-ins This Week: Grab a modulator and an atmospheric Kontakt instrument!

Looking for those sweet free plug-ins? We got 'em here! This week saw the release of two fantastic tools - the FreeMod modulation VST/AU plug-in by Audiority and the free version of DRONAR, an atmospheric...

Legally steal Backmask, Freakshow Industries’ reverser/mangle-box plug-in!

Freakshow Industries introduces the Backmask reverse delay plug-in, a scary-sounding thing with an interface as rich in graphics as a tattoo parlor's showroom, and a full license you can legally 'steal'...

Tokyo Dawn Records releases TDR Limiter 6 GE toolkit for Windows and macOS

Tokyo Dawn Records has released the TDR Limiter 6 Gentleman's Edition - "a modern dynamics compression and limiting toolkit". It consists of a compressor, clipper, high frequency limiter, output protection ...

Elektron unveils Analog Rytm MK2 analog drum machine with sampling

Elektron went ahead and updated its analog drum machine, the Analog Rytm. The biggest news is the addition of sampling capability, a feature that was notably missing in the original hardware...

Analog Four MK2 synthesizer announced by Elektron with welcome updates

Elektron went ahead and announced the Analog Four MK2 to keep the recently unveiled Octatrack MK2 good company. The new box features plenty of updates and cosmetic enhancements to the delight of Elektron fans!

Sonnox releases slick new Oxford Dynamic EQ plug-in

Fans of Sonnox's Oxford series of virtual studio gear plug-ins are in for a treat! The plug-in maker introduced a new dynamic equalizer that's soon to arrive in your DAW. The Oxford Dynamic EQ looks slick ...

Get a free UAD-2 Quad DSP Accelerator when you purchase a UA 6716 channel strip!

Universal Audio are running a sweet promotion for big spenders. If you purchased the UA 6176 channel strip recently, or buy one until September 30, you will receive a free UAD-2 Quad DSP Accelerator!

Acustica adds Dreamware reverb to its Ebony analogue gear sims

Acustica Audio has added the Dreamware reverb to its Ebony channel strip, a reasonably priced collection of simulated "rare" analog gear. And there's been some under-the-hood upgrades, too...

Design mockup shows how users want Ableton Live 10 to look

Nenad Milosevic listened to user feedback and created a thorough mockup of the requested design changes in the upcoming Ableton Live 10. His work is polished and authentic, though Live is still flat and dark...