Radial Space Heater 500 Tube Overdrive Now Shipping

Radial Engineering confirms its new Space Heater 500 tube overdrive unit is now shipping. The Space Heater 500 is a single-wide tube overdrive module for the Radial Workhorse and other 500 series racks that delivers natural crunch to drums, adds character to voice, and natural compression to bass and acoustic guitar.

Solid State Logic announced the release of the VHD Pre Module for the popular 500 format modular rack platform. The release makes its patented Variable Harmonic Drive (VHD) and SSL SuperAnalog preamp technology from Duality, SSL’s large format studio console, available for studios of all sizes.

Crane Song by Dave Hill introduced two new products at the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles. The Avocet II discrete class A monitor controller, the latest iteration of one of Crane Song’s best-selling hardware products, features an entirely new DAC and also offers significantly improved jitter performance. The Insigna Tube Equalizer, featuring three bands of EQ plus selectively variable high and low pass filters, is the third 500 Series module from Crane Song.

Anticipating an announcement scheduled for the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles, Solid State Logic released the details on its new “killer” mid-scale analogue console. SSL calls the XL-Desk “the perfect analogue centre piece for a modern DAW focused studio”, featuring 40+ SuperAnalogue inputs, 18 slot 500 format rack, 8 SSL VHD mic Pre’s on board and more.