Sound On Sound USA

Sound On Sound is the world's best recording technology magazine, packed full of in-depth, independent product tests, including music software, studio hardware, keyboards and live sound (PA) gear. Every issue also includes SOS's unique step-by-step tutorial and technique columns on all the leading DAW programs, as well as insightful interviews with leading producers, engineers and musicians.

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McDSP APB Tape Tape Emulation Plug-in For APB • McDSP’s analogue plug-in platform can now replicate the complex dynamic behaviour of tape.

AIXDSP DrumEQ Equaliser & Dynamics Plug-in • Could this clever, labour-saving plug-in change the way you mix drums?

Synchro Arts VocAlign Pro 6 Time-alignment Plug-in • Along with various other improvements, version 6 of this labour-saving plug-in brings ARA2 support to Pro Tools users.

BeesNeez Tribute 1 Valve Microphone • The Neumann U47 is legendary for a reason — as this homage makes clear.

Soundtheory Kraftur Multiband Saturation Plug-in • Want to add power, energy and excitement to a source? Perhaps Kraftur can help...

Zynaptiq Morph 3 Pro Audio Morphing Plug-in • Ever wanted to blend the characteristics of two different sounds? Morph Pro makes that easy.

Malcolm Toft Equate Eight-channel Equaliser • Ditched your console but still have a thirst for analogue EQ? Maybe the Equate can quench it...

Toontrack The Jazz Sessions SDX Superior Drummer 3 Expansion • Toontracks’ SD3 Expansion has drum sounds suitable for almost any jazz project you can imagine.

Sonic Charge Synplant 2 Software Synthesizer • Synplant 2 takes a more horticultural approach to synthesis than you may be used to...

Zoom H4essential Portable Recorder • “Just press record,” they say. Can it really be that easy?

Waldorf Iridium Core Synthesizer • Waldorf’s all-encompassing Iridium engine is now available in its smallest form yet.

Teknosign Box Line Double Width Audio Processors • With bold looks, original designs and affordable pricing, Teknosign’s preamp, EQ and compressor offer an intriguing alternative to better-known names.

Dirtywave M8 Model:02 Portable Hardware Tracker • This powerhouse portable tracker might be your new best M8.

Lauten LS-408 & LS-508 Drum Microphones • Lauten’s classy new capacitor microphones are purpose-made for toms and snare drums.

Orchestral Tools Benjamin Wallfisch Strings • Sample Libraries The Berlin samplemeisters link up with a Hollywood film composer to create two major string collections.

Icon Pro Audio/ Harrison 32Ci USB Audio Interface • Boring preamps have long been a given in audio interfaces, but all that is about to change...

Moog Muse Polyphonic Synthesizer • A Moog polysynth is always a big event, but is the Muse the inspiration you’ve been waiting for?

Win! Electro-Voice Everse 12

SPL Phonitor 3 Headphone Amplifier • With its clever Phonitor Matrix, this high-end headphone amp aims to deliver a more speaker-like listening experience.

Korg MPS-10 Drum, Percussion & Sampler Pad • Korg’s MPS-10 is a compact percussion instrument with hidden depths.

Cycle Instruments Tetrachords • Eurorack Module

Glasgow Synth Guild Oct Tone • Eurorack Module

Modular Profile: Josh Wilkinson

Grace Design Rex & Roxi Microphone Preamps • These classy preamps combine exemplary technical performance with some unusual stompbox‑friendly features.

Vienna Symphonic Library MIR Pro 3D & Vienna Power House Immersive Audio Reverb Suite • In a collaboration with tech pioneers GPU Audio, an add-on to this multi-impulse-response immersive-audio reverb promises to take the strain off your computer’s...