Press Coverage

The Expert’s Choice for Over 29 Years

Proof of the second half. The first half has its own.

What the audio press wrote about DUY, from the first trade-show report in January 1997 onwards. Every entry below was read on the page itself. Most of them link to a permanent copy in the Internet Archive; the ones we could not archive are listed separately at the end, and say so.

Opening the list: the January 1997 trade-show report that fixes when this started, and a DAW maker’s own advertisement naming DUY among the plug-in makers it worked with. The rest runs in date order.

These articles belong to their authors and publications. Nothing is reproduced here: what you get is the date, the page, a one-line summary of our own and a link to the original.

1997 · the first year

  • 1997-01-16/19Winter NAMM Show Report · Mike RiversA day-by-day report from the Anaheim show floor, written at the time. It places DUY at the show and describes five plug-ins on the stand: DaD Valve, Declicker, DUY Wide, Max DUY and DUY Shape.“a new plug-in developer from Spain, here at the show for the first time”Read the archived original
  • 1997-10/11/12Sound on SoundA full-page Mark of the Unicorn advertisement for Digital Performer 2.1, run identically in three consecutive issues. It names DUY among the compatible plug-in makers, next to Waves, Digidesign, Arboretum, Bias and Antares. Another company paying to print our name as proof of compatibility.Read the archived original
  • 1997-04Mix Magazine p.34The magazine's own NAMM round-up. It reports that Barcelona-based DUY showed five DSP plug-ins for the Digidesign TDM bus and Sound Designer II, and closes with the address duy.es. The same page carries Steinberg; Waves appears in the same section.Read the archived original
  • 1997-05EQ Magazine p.24DaD Tape in the "Warm Bits" section: four modelled machines, switchable noise reduction, 7.5/15/30 ips. It prints the company details as they stood, at Pl. Lesseps 33, Barcelona.Read the archived original
  • 1997-06Mix Magazine p.116A product note on the analogue tape simulator plug-in.Read the archived original
  • 1997-07Sound on Sound p.19A DaD Tape product note, distributed in the UK through Syco Systems, closing with duy.es.Read the archived original
  • 1997-09/10Sound on SoundA UK dealer advertisement listing around forty brands in alphabetical order. DUY sits between Digidesign and Dynaudio, alongside Akai, Focusrite, Genelec, Lexicon, Roland, Steinberg, TC Electronic, Waves and Yamaha.Read the archived original

1998-1999 · DSPider

  • 1998-01Sound on Sound · Paul White p.204The first full review of the range: five plug-ins with stylish interfaces and innovative features, named one by one — DaD Valve, DaD Tape, Max DUY, Wide DUY and Shape DUY. It describes the company as new to the field.Read the archived original
  • 1998-01EQ Magazine p.21The first note on DSPider, under the headline "Arachnophobes Need Not Worry".Read the archived original
  • 1998-05EQ Magazine p.89A longer feature, "DUY's DSPider: 100 Plug-ins in One", with the full range listed and the North American distributor of the day.Read the archived original
  • 1998-11Sound on Sound p.12News of the DSPider launch at the San Francisco AES convention: forty combinable modules, over 170 factory patches, and building your own plug-ins by dragging and dropping.“the first ever plug-in creation tool”Read the archived original
  • 1998-12EQ Magazine p.23A DSPider update: Advanced and Reader modes, and support for Pro Tools 4.1.Read the archived original

2000-2002 · a wider catalogue

  • 2000-03Mix Magazine · Erik HawkinsA full review of DSPider as a plug-in creator for the Macintosh. The page carries both a first-quarter 2000 publication marker and a stated date of 1 March 2000.Read the archived original
  • 2000-06EQ Magazine · Craig Anderton p.124In a review of the BIAS Peak audio editor, DUY is listed among the makers whose Premiere-format plug-ins the program handles, next to Waves and Arboretum. Not a review of ours: a mention in passing, in someone else's.Read the archived original
  • 2001Mix Master Directory p.46The annual supplier directory lists DUY Research at Plaza Lesseps 33, Barcelona, with duy.es as the contact.Read the archived original
  • 2002Mix Master Directory p.36The same listing one year on, with duy.com where the previous edition printed duy.es. Two consecutive years in the annual American trade reference, which puts the change of domain between the two editions.Read the archived original
  • 2002-04Digidesign DigiZine · Charles DyeIn his Hard Disk Life mixing column, the engineer lists the chain he uses to emulate an analogue tracking session. DaD Valve is his tube mic pre and DaD Tape his tape stage, named alongside Waves and McDSP.“Tube Mic Pre: DUY DaD Valve”Read the archived original
  • 2002-12Sound on Sound · Sam InglisA full review of SynthSpider, a virtual modular synthesiser for Pro Tools TDM and HD.Read the archived original

Verified, permanent link pending

These were read on the page, but we have no permanent archive copy to point you at yet. They are listed with enough detail to be found in a library or a magazine archive.

  • 1998 (7 issues)Sound on SoundA recurring DUY advertisement across seven issues of the year, covering VST, AudioSuite, Premiere, Sound Designer II and MOTU formats.
  • 1998-07Sound on Sound p.19The first mention of SynthSpider, four years before the full review. It suggests a long development rather than a sudden launch.
  • 1998-08/09Sound on SoundDUY plug-ins listed among the working equipment of real studios, in features alongside Auto-Tune, Focusrite and Waves.
  • 1999-01/09Studio Sound p.44-45 / p.81DUY among plug-in makers, and an early note on the MAS port.
  • 1999-06/12Mix Magazine p.234 / p.70Brand listings alongside Waves, Bomb Factory and GRM Tools.
  • 1999-10EQ Magazine p.63DSPider cited editorially next to Line 6 Amp Farm.
  • 2003-10-04Gracia Territori Sonor (LEM festival)"Loudspeakerty 16", a sixteen-loudspeaker installation created with Albert Verges, opened in the courtyard of the Districte de Gracia in Barcelona.

Looking for what DUY itself announced? The press archive holds our own releases, the earliest from the late 1990s. And the DUY story in four acts puts these citations in the order they happened.