Spectrasonics Trilian Software Review - Trilogy is Dead: Long Live Trilian!
Written testSpectrasonics has been living a love story with bass guitars for sixteen years. A long time before Omnisphere, Stylus and the famous Distorted Reality, one of the first products developed by Eric Per…
Novation Launchpad Gear Review - Novation Launchpad: Who's Pad?
Written testNovation surprised everyone by bringing out an Ableton Live dedicated control surface. Like Akai's APC? Not really, and obviously not at the same price.
Line 6 Spider IV 15 Review - Line 6 Bends Over Backwards For V4
Written testThe POD inventor comes back - for the fourth time - with its Spider modeling amp range. This time around we deal with the small, 15-watt combo which offers six effects, four amp models and some nice …
Zoom R16 Review - Zoom R16: All-Rounder
Written testDAW systems are good but you don't always have a computer by when you feel the rush to record music. Mini studios were created for that purpose: they are practical solutions but not very comprehensiv…
SSL X-Desk Review - SSL X-Desk: Art for All?
Written test2009 was a year of changes and Solid State Logic got it perfectly. More than ever, the British manufacturer wanted to perpetuate its leading position in the professional analog mixer market launching…
Celemony Melodyne Editor Review - Melodyne Blew Me Away
Written testEver since the creation of the first DAW, no other software has caused so much ink to be spilled and generated such expectations. The Direct Note Access technology, which was introduced by Celemony a…
Bassman TV Twelve Review - Fender Bassman TV : Old-School Amp
Written testThe 50's saw the birth of the first electric bass guitars by Leo Fender with the famous Precision Bass model. Inevitably, the first Bassman amps with their tweed covering quickly appeared on the mark…
M-Audio Axiom Pro 49 Review - Axiom Truth
Written testIt used to be black and now it's white. M-Audio's controller keyboard is back with a new look and on steroids...
Mackie Onyx 820i Review - Pro-Tools inside a Mackie?
Written testIt's been a while since the first Onyx mixers with the FireWire option first came out, and now Mackie carries on with the Onyx 820i, which comes with Pro Tools M-Powered 8. Hmm...so what does M-Audio…
Schecter Stiletto Extreme 4 Review - More than Bass
Written testBefore manufacturing its own electric and bass guitars, Schecter made spare parts for other renowned guitar manufacturers. Those times are long gone and now Schecter makes high-quality original model…
Could the Apple iPhone be the best portable recorder? - My iPhone is an 8-Track Recorder
Written testThe iPhone is a great little piece of machinery. It can do anything! What's the weather going to be like in Chicago tomorrow? At what time does Police Academy 17 run again? 7:20pm. A Bomberman game…
Peavey Vypyr 75 Review - A Vypyr's Bite
Written testThe Vypyr Series was born out of Peavey's attempt to compete with the Line6 Spider Series and take a bite out of the modeling amplifier market. Today we will review the Vypyr 75. Could the viper beat…
Ibanez RG 2570MZ VBE Guitar Review - Pure Prestige
Written testThe large Ibanez RG family starts to be å regular among AudioFanzine's editorial staff. We first received the RG2610 with its single pickup, then the RG420EG-SBK "spider axe." Today, it's the turn of…
TC Electronic RebelHead450 review - Rebel Rebel
Written testWell-known for its studio and guitar digital effects, TC Electronic enters the bass market with the RebelHead450, a 450-watt amplifier head with speaker cabinet.
Yamaha Tyros 3 product review - Yamaha Tyros 3: The Arranger Keyboard Rearranged
Written testPerpetuating the Tyros line for the third time, Yamaha presents a new, high-technology arranger keyboard that provides a rarely achieved musicality.
Review of the Novation Zero SL Mk II - Novation Remote Zero SL MKII
Written testWhen Novation announced Automap Universal at the 2007 NAMM many were instantly intrigued by the concept. Many producers and long time fans of MIDI control were eager to get this revolutionary product…
Introduction - Fender Road Worn Series: Well-worn or Worn-out?
Written testWhat's an impatient guitarist to do when looking for a guitar that's been worn and aged through years of playing and gigging, but who doesn't want to wait for time to do its thing? Two options: buyin…
Introduction - Spectrasonics Omnisphere: Omnipotent & Omnificent ?
Written testAfter many years of development, Spectrasonics has released their new flagship virtual instrument, Omnisphere, which has been heralded as a completely new ground-breaking hybrid virtual instrument in…
Introduction - Steinberg Cubase 5: Take Five
Written testCubase, one of the titans of the sequencer pantheon, has come out with an attractive looking 5th version, at a time when the sequencer wars are raging more than ever. Let's take a look...
Bogner Alchemist Amplifier: The Test - Bogner Alchemist Amp: Turning Lead Guitar into Gold
Written testEven from childhood, in his native Germany, Reinhold Bogner was already skillfully wielding his soldering iron to create his own guitar amps. After he moved to Los Angeles, his models and amp modific…
Kurzweil PC361 Review - VASTer Than Ever
Written testThe newest member of the PC3 family, the PC361 is a powerful digital modular synthesizer, representing Kurzweil's return to leading the music scene and the supremacy of VAST synthesis. Welcome to the…
Waves Tony Maserati Collection: The Test - Waves & Maserati - All Revved Up and Ready to Go!...
Written testThe Tony Maserati collection represents a meeting of industry titans. Waves, one of the earliest and most enduring audio plug-ins companies, has made its reputation on quality bundles of their own pl…
Ableton Live 8: The Test - Live 8: Long Live Ableton
Written testAbleton's Live has been with us for some time now and since it’s initial release in 2001 it has proudly sported a simple one window interface and transparent ’no frills’ operation. This simplicity…
Percussa Audiocubes: The Test - Audio Cubism
Written testOut of the blue, it just appeared in my office, like the megalith from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. A cube: 7.5 cm long, as white and smooth as paraffin, with a pair of LEDs on four of its six…
Universal Audio - Moog Multimode Filter: The Test - Moog Multimode Filter: Mojo Filter
Written testWhile there is a huge choice of filter effects available on the market today, it could be argued that many of them lack the character and warmth of some of their hardware counterparts and while so…
