After 20+ years in professional audio: live sound engineering, studio technical direction (Deep Forest, Pierre Jacquot), head of digital marketing at Playback.fr. A first-hand witness to the analog-to-digital shift, I track the whole audio landscape and break it down here — no fluff.
Revived by INODESIGN after Aodyo’s collapse, the Loom has just finalised its hardware. This portable MPE controller tracks position, timbre, pressure and even finger strike force, and plays as a keyboard, ribbon, strum or drum kit. Production is slated for autumn 2026.
Warm Audio has teamed up with Sound Techniques to reissue the mic preamp from the British A-Range console that tracked The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’. Class-A dual-discrete 3035 gain, CineMag transformers and, crucially, a nine-position Z-Match impedance control: here’s what the Jude-MP promises at $749 per channel.
With the Revolution Clock Mini, Black Lion Audio brings its Macro-MMC clocking technology into a compact half-rack box. Three BNC outputs, a quoted 0.5 picosecond of jitter and a universal power supply make it a sync reference aimed at small studios and mobile rigs.
A tape-echo repair specialist that now builds its own machines, Echo Fix turns its EF-X3 into a limited Vintage Voice edition: new vintage-voiced tape heads, dialable wow and flutter, an analog spring reverb and live tape looping. A fully analog signal path, at around EUR 2,900.
Between the console and the transmitter sits a box that decides how a station sounds: the broadcast processor. AGC, multiband, limiter, clipper, bass management: here is how on-air processing shapes a radio’s sound, and why it is an art as much as a technique.
Before the mic, before the monitors, there is the room. An untreated studio lies about what you hear, and no plugin fixes that. Here is how acoustic treatment works, what it actually corrects, and where to start.
One note, a few notes, many notes: behind those three words hides the single most structuring choice when buying a synth. Here is what monophony, paraphony and polyphony really change about the sound, the playing and the price.
Seen at InfoComm and back in the spotlight at PLASA Show 2026, Violet Audio’s dMix 128 puts the mixing console where you least expect it: in a rack, with no surface, driven from a browser. Behind the bold move sits an FPGA engine handling 128 channels and sub-millisecond latency.
Main output at line level, balanced run, MIC/LINE sensitivity and gain structure: the complete method for wiring a powered speaker to your mixing console.
The first instrument from boutique maker Suonobuono, the Polyvera is a six-voice polyphonic synth and sampler that deliberately recreates the artefacts of early-1980s digital sound, then pushes them through genuine multimode analog filters. It sells for around EUR 1,199 ex VAT.