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These plug‑ins are all about warmth and distortion, and the flavours on offer range from gentle saturation at the subtler end of the scale through to crunching overload and squelchy obliteration.
Available through United Plugins, FireEQ combines several EQ methodologies with a view to making mixing and mastering flexible but without adding too much complexity.
Minimal Audio's Flex Chorus offers up to 24 voices plus overall control over the delay time and modulation depth.
Expert Sleepers’ Andrew Ostler gives us a blow‑by‑blow account of the thinking behind his new analogue modules.
The next batch of analogue Expert Sleepers modules expands the line‑up in several new and exciting directions.
I have two different mics, made by the same legacy German manufacturer, that I’m ‘shooting out’ to compare them as vocal mics, and generally to make sure they’re working properly...
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Prolific composer Max Richter turns his hand to sample libraries, recording a world‑beating Steinway D‑274 concert grand.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. If you require a collection of textural sound elements that might enhance your latest sci‑fi based film, video game or TV drama, you’re in the right place.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Supporting all the main plug‑in formats, Bloom Aether Vocal is based on samples of short vocal phrases, both male and female, that can be manipulated in creative ways.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Aria Vocalscapes contains some beautiful content performed by classical soprano Emma May Price.
SSL’s PureDrive preamps bring the sound of their Origin console to a new audience.
Growing up in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, Eduardo De La Paz didn’t have many opportunities to learn the craft of recording and production. He has since made his own name as a formidable mixer, and in the process founded a studio.
Toontrack get gritty with their Dark Industrial expansions for EZdrummer and EZkeys.
These short audio files accompany the Cubase workshop that appears in SOS June 2024.
Audio examples to accompany our review of the Saturn 2 multi-pattern Large Diaphragm Condenser microphone by Sontronics.
Quite a few engineers who work with bands like driving their drum submix into fairly heavy compression, but whenever I try doing this it seems like I end up losing the low‑end weight from my kick drum...
Last year I watched Almost Famous, and that film made me realise something incredibly sad: I’d never heard anything on vinyl.
Does knowing about production change the way we engage with music?
Arturia's, Frédéric Brun, talks about the company's eventful history, taking in highlights such as the innovative MiniBrute, the epic PolyBrute and the company's first stage keyboard, the new AstroLab.
Eddie Bazil gives us three masterclass pointers on constructing beats, incorporating useful tools such as Drum Replacement software and pre-constructed Loops...