Yay, a new compact pedal from Eventide! I’m a fan of the smaller-sized Eventide effects (including their lovely Rose delay pedal) and I’m happy to announce the release of the new Riptide pedal.According to the company, Riptide is the result of extensive research into the iconic Shin-ei Uni-Vibe® and legendary…
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Invigorate – Innovative Bus Compressor From Newfangled Audio
Newfangled Audio (you might remember this name for their brilliant West Coast-style Generate soft synth has released Invigorate, a bus compressor like no other. Invigorate can smoothly morph from compression through limiting to overdrive, making it fast and easy to mix in just the right amount of character and make…
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Erica Synths Sample Drum + Plasma Drive: Live-Friendly Sampling And Reinventing Distortion
It might be that February 23rd is the birthday of Erica Synths founder and visionary Girts Ozolins (see our interview with him), but the Latvian company always seems to have some cool new products around this time of the year. In 2018 the buzz was all around the Graphic VCO, a long-awaited…
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Audio Damage Is On A Roll – Here’s Grind and Dubstation 2
A few weeks ago we covered Audio Damage’s ‘comeback’ to the plugin realm with their release of Eos 2. The company also announced full version upgrades of all their current products plus some new releases and they are certainly keeping their promises. Last week they released Grind, in their words…
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More Than Nostalgia – PitchFuzz, The New Algorithm For Eventide H9
It’s always exciting when Eventide releases a new algorithm for its H9 platform (awarded with our 2015 Sonic Joy award). PitchFuzz combines fuzz, three pitch shifters and two delays for an amazing range of tonal shapes. According to the company, PitchFuzz is more than a classic fuzz octaver. “Our aim…
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The Imperfect Yet Inspiring Sound Of The Eighties – Bastl Instruments Rediscovers The Distortotron
Why some of us like ‘the Eighties sound’ so much? Sure, some of those synths and effects were very innovative, but at the same time they had to face relevant technical limitations: bit-depth, sample-rates, etc. Well, it turns out that those limitations, the DACs and antialiasing filters imparted a certain…