Music Gear and Equipment Reviews

Knitting ethereal vocal textures, evolving atmospherics and swelling bass throbs, Speculative Memories opens vast avenues for sonic introspection

Summoning the spirit of the string machines of the pre-digital age, EastWest’s latest VI brings retro-future textures to the 21st century table

A hot-rodded five-string that pushes the envelope with performance while maintaining a classy style

Is the Spark footswitch a cutting-edge, must-have accessory or a pointless extra? Let’s find out

Looking for the sound that defined Clapton with Cream? Don't touch that dial... This pedal does it all

This behemoth of a pedal provides an atomic blast of tone that could level a city

Beehold! A multi-effects pedal like you've never seen before that combines analogue filter, octave, fuzz, tremolo and more with some spectacular results

Those 1970s Orange stompboxes are back in style with all-new circuits and modernised for contemporary pedalboards. Can these retro pedals cut it in the 21st century?

We go large, with the studio veteran’s latest interface that’s built to handle bigger performances

We take a look at a percussive voice module that isn’t afraid to put wackiness front and centre