Drawmer: DS201 Dual Gate
reviewed by Larry Crane
I used to think that gates were all the same. I bought an inexpensive quad gate years ago and have used it quite a bit for cleaning up a bit of tape hiss or amp noise during mixing. When I tried to...
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Requisite Audio: L2M Mastering Limiter/Expander
reviewed by Larry DeVivo
You know how there are certain things that come in to your life and once they do you realize that you just can't live without them? That was the experience I had when I first heard the L2M Mastering...
AMEK: Channel in a Box mic pre, EQ and compressor
reviewed by Larry Crane
This is a one rack-space device that, as its name suggests, operates as a complete input channel, featuring a mic pre, high and low pass shelving, EQ and compression. And since it was designed by Mr....
Summit Audio: MPC - 100A mic pre/compressor
reviewed by Eric Broyhill
One of my favorite new purchases this season was this tube Mic pre/compressor-limiter by Summit Audio. I first used the unit as a bass pre and it worked great. It has a Hi-Z input on the faceplate...
SPL: Transient Designer
reviewed by Brian Krawcykowski
First off, this unassuming one rack-space unit did not look capable of performing what the manual had written for performance capabilities. The unit, from Sound Performance Lab, is the Transient...
SHURE: SE-30
reviewed by Steve Silverstein
Someone once advised me that no cheap microphone is a bad microphone. With the same principle in mind, I bought this device (which, despite its name, serves mostly as a preamp and something of a...
FMR Audio: RNC 1773
reviewed by Larry Crane
It seems like more people are mentioning these cool little compressors lately. They're 1/3 rack space sized jobs that do a better job than a lot of compressors that cost way more. They have the usual...