The latest news, buyers' guides, tips and interviews from the world of synths, Eurorack modular and electronic music.
Roundup 24 January 2025 | Melbourne Instruments Roto-Control and more...
News
While Jason’s over in California checking out the latest products being unveiled at NAMM, the rest of us are bunkered down in Scotland as Storm Eowyn batters the country.We’ve had to close the...
Roundup 9 January 2025 | Matrix mixers & awesome oscillators...
News
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2025! We hope you had a peaceful festive season wherever you are. The whole Signal Sounds team is busy planning for the year ahead, thinking about how we can make the...
Made to Fade: a chat about the PlayFader with Andrew ‘Hadj’ Hadjiantoni
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
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... ...
Roundup 19 December 2024 | Prepare for Ectocore...
News
Well, that’s another year (almost) in the bag - how did it get to be mid-December already? It’s been a whirlwind few weeks with a Black Friday sale and loads of exciting new products launching...
Roundup 6 December 2024 | New Instruo, RYK, Joranalogue and more
News
We’re still catching our breath after our Black Friday sale - hope you managed to pick up a bargain! Just a heads-up that we’ve still got hefty discounts on a few products, with some offers running...
Roundup 22 November 2024 | Black Friday, OP-XY, Tiptop Buchla and more
News
If your inbox is anything like ours, it will be getting absolutely battered with emails about Black Friday deals at the moment. So we’ll keep this part short and sweet: we’re launching a...
Roundup 8 November 2024 | Scrooge, Turismo, new Make Noise and more
News
A short and sweet intro this week! It’s been an, ahem, eventful week in politics, but we’ve got lots of great new gear to distract you from the impending collapse of Western civilisation....
Roundup 24 October 2024 | Joranalogue x Hainbach, Time Machine, 259t and more
News
Phew! We’re just about recovered from Machina Bristronica, which capped off a great run of autumn events for us. Thanks to everyone who dropped by our stand to chat, and huge thanks to Marco, Ben,...
Field recording 101: Why, how and what you’ll need
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...
Out standing in his field: Ezra Gray of Oaka Instruments on his specialist mics
Interviews
The boutique field recording microphones from Oaka Instruments have been a big hit in the Signal Sounds store this year.Built by hand in Dorset by sound artist and audio engineer Ezra Gray (pictured),...
Roundup 10 October 2024 | Machina Bristronica & new gear galore!
News
The biggest weekend in the British synth calendar is almost upon us, and we’re about to load up the Signal Sounds van to make the 750-mile round trip from Glasgow to Bristol for Machina...