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The latest news, buyers' guides, tips and interviews from the world of synths, Eurorack modular and electronic music.

Signal Sounds vs ALM Busy Circuits | 27 August

Signal Sounds vs ALM Busy Circuits | 27 August

Tom August 5th, 2025 1 minute read

Events

For our latest in-store event, we have none other than Matthew Allum from ALM Busy Circuits paying us a visit. The brains behind Pamela’s New/Pro Workout and dozens of other incredible Eurorack...

Signal Sounds vs Sequential & Oberheim | 30 July

Signal Sounds vs Sequential & Oberheim | 30 July

Tom July 2nd, 2025 2 minute read

Events

For our latest event on Wednesday 30th July 2025, we’re welcoming synth wizard and long-time friend of the store Chris ‘-CALC-’ Calcutt to our showroom for a masterclass on all things...

Buyer's guide: Polysynths

Buyer's guide: Polysynths

Luke June 20th, 2025 14 minute read

Buyer's Guides

At Signal Sounds, we like to promote harmonious living, and we think beautiful things happen when you play more than one note at a time on your synthesiser. A piano-style keyboard layout naturally...

New products at Superbooth 2025

The best new gear of Superbooth 2025

Tom May 12th, 2025 9 minute read

News | Gear

Berlin’s FEZ centre played host to a mind-boggling array of new synths, Eurorack modules and studio gear last week for Superbooth 2025. Brands, dealers and musicians from around the world flocked to the...

What makes Superbooth special? (Plus tips for a first-timer)

What makes Superbooth special? (Plus tips for a first-timer)

Luke April 30th, 2025 6 minute read

Tips

Superbooth is a trade show for electronic music gear, of which there are a fair few on the calendar. I’m no stranger to a trade show at this point - having worked in music retail for a while I’ve...

Doing it right: a chat with Morgan McWaters of WORNG Electronics

Doing it right: a chat with Morgan McWaters of WORNG Electronics

Tom April 3rd, 2025 11 minute read

Interviews

WORNG Electronics is one of our favourite Eurorack brands, with a small but perfectly formed catalogue of innovative analogue modules. Drawing on Melbourne-based founder Morgan McWaters’ years...

Signal Sounds vs Joranalogue | 26 March

Signal Sounds vs Joranalogue | 26 March

Tom March 12th, 2025 2 minute read

Events

Our in-store events programme continues with a vist from Joran van Gremberghe, the man behind one of our favourite Eurorack brands, Joranalogue. On Wednesday 26 March 2025, he'll host a free workshop...

Future Sound

Signal Sounds vs Future Sound Systems | 26 February

Tom February 7th, 2025 1 minute read

Events

Our in-store events programme returns with a bang for 2025, kicking off with none other than Finlay Shakespeare of Bristol-based Future Sound Systems!After making waves with some of the coolest Eurorack...

Synth Club's January participants

Signal Sounds Synth Club | January 2025 event recap

Luke February 5th, 2025 3 minute read

Events

The Signal Sounds Synth Club got off to a flying start on Wednesday 29 January! For our inaugural electronic music social event, we divided the participants into four groups, equipped them with a Zoom L6...

The PlayFader in use

Made to Fade: a chat about the PlayFader with Andrew ‘Hadj’ Hadjiantoni

Tom January 8th, 2025 7 minute read

Interviews

One of the more interesting hardware sequencers to emerge last year was the PlayFader, a striking two-channel performance sequencer from Play All Day.  Born out of a desire to create a hands-on...

Gear of the year 2024

Gear of the year 2024

Tom December 23rd, 2024 1 minute read

Gear

To round off a cracking 2024 in the world of music tech, we asked a few of our staff and some good friends of the store to pick their favourite pieces of gear of the year. Here's what they chose... ...

A portable audio recorder being held in front of a wooded area.

Field recording 101: Why, how and what you’ll need

Luke October 23rd, 2024 10 minute read

Tips

We musicians spend a lot of time thinking about sounds. Whether it’s considering the weight of an 808 kick, the tone of a certain filter or the buzz of a particular sawtooth, we tend to listen...