Crane Song Trakker
The Trakker is a new mono compressor/limiter from Cranesong. Although similar in appearance to the STC-8 Stereo Compressor, the designer has taken a somewhat different approach. However, there are
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D.W.Fearn VT-7
Such is his perfectionism, Douglas Fearn spent nearly 10 years researching and designing this stereo compressor. You’ve seen the picture, it’s a 3U case, but in the flesh it is
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Daking 52270 Mic Pre/EQ and 91579 Compressor/Limiter
I suspect that many readers outside the US have never heard of Geoffrey Daking. I hadn't. The man himself is a studio owner and 'audio tinkerer'. His units have been
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dbx 160S
The dbx 160 was standard equipment in any studio worth its salt when I started in the business. Not for the faint-hearted, I always suspected that this half-rack, 2U machine
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Digitech Studio 400
The 400 is a black 2U multi-fx box, fairly shallow in depth. On first glance one is immediately put in mind of the Eventide H3000. However, this unit is about
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DPA 3541
When scouring the microphone cupboards of the commercial studios I use, I am always delighted to encounter Brüel & Kjær models, (now available under the DPA name). Frequently, these are
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Drawmer Front End One MX60
In the high-end 'voice channel' market, one can easily forget that Drawmer were an early entrant with the Vacuum Tube 1960. They now enter the crowded budget end of this
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E.A.R. / Yoshino 660
Esoteric [es–o–ter'ik], adjective inner; secret; mysterious; taught to a select few – This is the dictionary definition of the ‘E.’ of E.A.R. (Esoteric Audio Research), which says much about the
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Eventide DSP 4500
The Eventide name is synonymous with the studio harmonizer. Their more recent designs include many other types of effects, but the pitch-shifter remains central to all 'Ultra-Harmonizer' models. The most
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Eventide DSP 7000
Eventide's Orville is a Rolls-Royce effects processor, with 96kHz/24-Bit capability and multiple audio connections enabling surround-sound usage. But it will be some time until we all work exclusively in a
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Eventide H7600
This new Harmonizer is not quite the top-of-the-range model, that honour goes to the H8000FW, an eight channel unit featuring 5.1 presets. But the H7600 is now the top stereo
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Fat Man 'Fat One' by TL Audio
I was just a few days into my health diet when the Fat One arrived, threatening to spoil things. The novelty of receiving a cubic container was quite irresistible -
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Focusrite Liquid Mix HD Plug-in
Since Focusrite impressed everyone with their remarkable hybrid digital and analogue Liquid Channel microphone preamp (using a clever combination of convolution software and emulation hardware), they have brought their ‘Liquid’
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Groove Tubes The Glory Comp
The Glory Comp (GC hereon) is a sister product of the ViPre microphone preamp. A similarly over-engineered all-valve design, this new product is equally robust – it weighs a whopping
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Gyraf Gyratec XIV
Gyraf are a Danish company who have been quietly making valve-based outboard equipment for over 15 years; it is five years since Resolution last looked at any of their products.
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Helios EQ1 Lunchbox
A brief history lesson: The late Dick Swettenham was a maintenance engineer at Olympic Studios in its late 1960's heyday. In the early 1970's he built a rather wonderful desk
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