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Arriving just in time for a summer of field recording, Teenage Engineering has finally released its new TP-7 field recorder, which is designed to do “only one thing and do it well.”

The TP-7 field recorder was introduced at Superbooth – it is digital and it is one of the loveliest looking recorder designed to slot perfectly into your palm.

TP-7 encourages you to use your index finger to trigger the fast-forward control and your middle finger to rewind. Your thumb starts a recording, and your ‘pinky’ selects the mode. Teenage Engineering calls this ‘intuitive muscle reflex control’ and believes that it creates “a genuinely rewarding man-machine experience.”

Audio scrubbing can be controlled by a side-mounted rocker, but the centrepiece of the TP-7 is the motorised ‘tape’ reel. Featuring a brushed motor with ball bearings, this enables you to grab and move through your recording, pause it and navigate menus. The reel also spins during playback so you can experience the sensation of watching analogue tape rolling.

Available in limited quantities, the TP-7 costs $1,499/£1,299. Find out more on the Teenage Engineering website.

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Nembrini Audio’s Big Stuff is a plugin emulation of Electro-Harmonix’s classic Big Muff pedal, a free plugin that promises all the fuzzy fun of the hardware in your PC, Mac or iOS DAW.

Having seen Electro-Harmonix create a ‘hardware plugin’ version of its Big Muff pedal last year, now Nembrini Audio has released a standard plugin emulation, Big Stuff, and is enabling you download it for free.

For the uninitiated, the Big Muff is a classic fuzz/distortion/sustain pedal. Released back in the ‘70s, it was favoured by everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Carlos Santana and David Gilmour, and its sound is still in demand today.

Big Stuff promises to do an accurate job of nailing the Big Muff’s tone and workflow. As on the pedal, there are volume, sustain and tone controls.

When used in combination, the volume and sustain can do everything from cleaning up a signal to adding more obvious sustain and distortion, while the tone control operates like a low-pass filter.

What Nembrini Audio says about it:

“Nembrini Audio Big Stuff is modeled on a Electro Harmonix Big Muff.

The Big Stuff will give you a sweet violin-like sustaining sound. It’s the same legendary created by Jimi Hendrix”.

Big Stuff Harmonic Distortion-Sustain Demos

Big Stuff is free to download, it runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats and also on iOS in standalone, AUv3 and Inter-App Audio formats. Find out more and download on the Nembrini Audio website.

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Fans were alerted to the possibility of imminent new music at last week’s Sonar 2023 in Barcelona, when typically oblique Twitter posts asked frenzied treasure hunters to “LOOK OUT FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL”.

Today, Warp Records has announced a new EP by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James), Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760, scheduled to be released July 28, 2023.

The EP features four tracks:

• Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
• zin2 test5
• in a room7 F760
• Blackbox Life Recorder 22 [Parallax Mix]

In addition, Aphex Twin has released a video for Blackbox Life Recorder 21f, embedded above, featuring video art by Art by Weirdcore.

Aphex Twin is on tour in Europe this Summer and will perform at London’s Field Day festival on 19 August.

Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 is available to pre-order in CD, vinyl and digital formats.

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