The insanely tiny Teenage Engineering TX-6 now records and connects and makes more sense

It’s the ultimate music gear you can swallow. Sorry, make that carry in your pocket. And now the TX-6 starts to make more sense.

Teenage Engineering’s mixer – FX – audio interface – instrument is provocatively tiny

The next big idea from Teenage Engineering is a minuscule multifunction mixer-audio interface. It’s beautiful and – maybe unusably small. Those Teenagers never shy away from controversy.

Peter Kirn - April 25, 2022

Review: MOD Dwarf is a lush, bottomless portal to effects that keeps getting better

If you love software, if you love the imaginative and compositional choices it affords, at last hardware is embodying that same freedom. Few devices do that more elegantly than the MOD Dwarf. MOD’s place in the sound galaxy You know the story as far as need. You like having all those choices of different effects […]

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2021

Get more doom harp in your life with this harpist’s distortion pedal reviews

Peter Kirn - August 26, 2021

Pedals: The Musical, where pedals sing to you about their history, is an actual thing

Peter Kirn - March 17, 2021

Behind the scenes of a sci-fi 3D music video, as Defasten takes us deep into Notch

Peter Kirn - February 22, 2021

PORTAL from Output lets you navigate granular effect chaos

Peter Kirn - June 20, 2019

Strymon’s Volante is a new, lush-sounding magnetic echo FX pedal

Peter Kirn - January 14, 2019

Bastl’s Dark Matter module unleashes the joys of feedback

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2019

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