What do The Beatles, Peter Townshend, John Fogerty, John Kay, and many other well-known 1960s guitarists have in common? They all played Rickenbacker® Guitars and trusted this clean ringing sound which became so popular in those days and still is as groups like Oasis, Pearl Jam, U2 and other today’s

Once in a while something comes along that sends you way back to days long gone and you get that Deja-Vu feeling and can even smell and feel how it was at that exact time in the past. Shortwave from Rythmic Robot Audio just did a major time-travel for me.

This month Meena Shamaly reviewed Impact Soundwork’s awesome 8 string Bouzouki VST for us. Its the first of their Plectra series of instrument libraries and it sounds awesome straight out of the box. Check out the video below!

Daniel James from HybridTwo has reviewed the latest library by Spitfire Audio called Albion 2 – Loegria. As usual, Daniel has created a track using the library and gives us an overview of how he used what and how to get the best sound out of it.

This month, Bobby got around to reviewing the new sample library from Sample Oddity – Thrash Di. From their website: Amp up this direct-input sampled guitar and let fly with metal mayhem! You will need a decent amp sim to fully take advantage of this instrument. Thrash DI also includes

Daniel James of HybridTwo has kindly reviewed the latest Native Instruments library called “Action Strings” – a library of live-recorded common string phrases.

This month, our new software reviewer Bobby Cole, got a chance to try out the latest VST from Rhythmic Robot called “Jennings“. From their website: Jennings is a meticulously faithful recreation of one of the very first synthesisers, the valve-based Jennings Univox. The Univox was designed in 1946 by Derek

This month, I finally got a chance to sit down and play with Symphonic Sphere by Orchestral Tools – a sample library developer know for Orchestral String Runs 2, and the soon to be released Berlin Woodwinds. As described on their website, Symphonic Sphere is “an orchestral sample library, focused