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    Nov 13, 2019 4 minutes
    Column: Martin Walker

    Many PC effect plug-ins now arrive with serious audio performance that would have been unheard of a few years ago and, when modelled from hardware gear, can sound uncannily close to their original inspiration. Nevertheless, where hardware and software versions of the same item of gear are compared in detail by reviewers, the software version invariably gets close, but will never get the cigar. Now you may think there’s an element of politics involved in such statements, but I firmly believe that there are also more subtle forces at play. Despite both hardware and software plug-in alternatives seemingly offering identical specifications, in hardware the result is a cumulative one,

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