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Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosAn SOS Award Nomination for the OptoFET We are pleased to announce that the OptoFET Dual Stage Compressor has been nominated for a 2027 Sound On Sound Award.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosTape Op Reviews the Master Buss Processor Plug-In “Spoiler alert: I found the same excitement, energy, and power in the plug-in as I had the rack unit.”

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosOn Tour with Shinedown: FOH Andy Meyer Join us for a detailed gear rundown with Andy Meyer (who’s been using RND in his live rigs for nearly 15 years) and learn more about the equipment in his current Shinedown rack.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosNew Plug-Ins Reviewed: Sound On Sound “RND’s plug-in suite closely recreates the look, feel and sound of three of their most popular pieces of outboard.”

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosA TEC Nomination for the OptoFET We are pleased to announce that the OptoFET Dual Stage Compressor has been nominated for a TEC Award.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosRupert Neve Designs Debuts Three Plug-Ins: The Master Buss Processor, 551 Inductor EQ, and 542 Tape Emulator Meet the Portico II Master Buss Processor, 551 Inductor EQ, and 542 Tape Emulator Plug-Ins: Faithful recreations of three beloved hardware units that power thousands of studios and stages worldwide.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosJimmy Chamberlin’s Drum Studio An interview with Smashing Pumpkins’ drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and his engineer Chris Gelin.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosGear Breakdown: The OptoFET (via Vintage King) “Talking about the OptoFET is one thing, but hearing it in action is something else entirely. Watch our Gear Breakdown for an in-depth walkthrough of the compressor’s circuits, modes, and real-world…

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosThe 5088 Custom LEGO® Building Set, 4th Edition: “The First 5088” Meet the 4th Edition 5088 Custom LEGO® Building set, available Friday August 7th 2026 @ 12pm EST.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosCustomer Spotlight: Vertigo Vertigo is a recording studio based in Montpellier, France, specializing in recording, mixing and Dolby Atmos mixing.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosOn Tour with Paul Simon Paul Simon's recent 'A Quiet Celebration Tour' marked his return to performing after a multi-year hiatus, and we were fortunate enough to film with two different members of his touring crew in two…

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosBand Meeting! On Tour with Flight of the Conchords We caught up with the legendary musical-comedy duo’s FOH engineer Mike Leach after two sold-out shows in LA for the Netflix Is A Joke Festival this summer.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosThe OptoFET on Bass with Santana FOH Engineer Kevin Madigan discusses using the OptoFET on bass compression duties for the Santana residency in Las Vegas.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosCroatia Soundworks and the 5088 “This room is really where the modern music scene in Croatia started - almost every major artist in the region has tracked a milestone project here, bringing in hundreds of millions of streams over…

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosStudio Tour: Dan Carey Join us for a deep dive into producer / songwriter / mixer / remixer Dan Carey's South London studio.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosKore Studios and the 5088 Based in a 2000 sq ft warehouse in Acton, West London, the building is laid out over two floors with the main control room and live room on the ground floor and hospitality + a mastering studio on…

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosAudiofanzine Reviews the OptoFET “…the range of possibilities is literally enormous, and the sonic palette is immense.”

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosWin a Newton Channel + RNDI-M, thanks to Sound On Sound In this exclusive SOS competition you could win two top-class pieces of studio hardware from Rupert Neve Designs, worth $2,200. Enter by Monday June 1st for a chance to win!

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosOn Tour with Thee Sacred Souls “…it literally felt like every channel had a warm blanket around it, making for a very comfortable and smooth listening experience out front.

Rupert Neve DesignsStudios & prosSee You At SUPERBOOTH26 Hey synth people! We’ll see you May 07-09 in Berlin – and we’re bringing a 5088 again, thanks to KMR Audio Germany and Helwa Studio.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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