Signal Processors

Will Bob Clearmountain's signature plug-in help aspiring mix engineers emulate their hero's success?

Eventide's first venture into iOS territory brings us three effects processors. All offered as iOS AUv3 plug-ins as well as working via IAA or in stand-alone mode.

This plug-in offers parallel compression and tube-like saturation.

Sonnox's innovative dynamics processor offers unprecedented ability to separate wanted from unwanted audio in drum recordings.

Is this unassuming plug-in a great leap forward in mastering compression?

Feel the lo-fi magic of the 1980s — with six unique effects in one strange plugin.

This plug-in offers detailed modelling of the sound of four classic tape machines.

One look at the interface and you can tell right away that there's more to Hyperspace than your usual reverb plug-in...

Simplicity meets sophistication in Relab's impressive new reverb plug-in.

Max 8 sees Cycling '74 enhance both multi-channel audio and JavaScript support, among many other improvements.

If your music-making workflow is centred on an iOS device, you can now pick up FabFilter's plug-in suite in app form for a fraction of the price of their desktop counterparts.

Front DAW is a very affordable analogue console emulation plug-in for Mac and Windows, compatible with VST, VST3, AAX and AU hosts.

Conventional compressors or expanders are not always suitable for tackling issues that affect only one part of the frequency spectrum, which is where multiband solutions like Pompeii come in very useful.

Submarine's role in life is to add natural-sounding sub-bass content by generating frequencies that are one octave and two octaves lower than the input signal.

Universal Audio continue to tempt UAD2 owners with officially licensed recreations of classic equipment — and rooms!

iZotope's AI-based plug-in suite grows ever more intelligent with the addition of an automated mix-balancing tool.

Antares' EFX version of Auto‑Tune was designed specifically to create less-than-natural vocal effects, and this 'plus'...

Available in stereo and surround versions, and in all the usual native formats, Bute Limiter is a thoroughly modern plug-in designed to operate in the post-loudness wars era — though if you do want to indulge in a bit of retro endstop-slamming, it will certainly oblige.

Oh dear. Towards the end of my article on working with Ambisonic audio in Logic Pro X (SOS June 2019:...

The TC 2290-DT is part plug-in, part hardware: the bus-powered USB 2 device acts as both dongle and control surface...

How do you differentiate between the following terms: saturation, harmonics, distortion, overdrive? Are all of these just similar terms with different names?