Signal Processors

A trio of easy-to-use plug-ins from Waves aims to bottle the signature sounds of pop producer Greg Wells.

Positive Grid’s latest plug-ins let you craft your own boutique compressor designs without ever touching a soldering iron.

Acustica Audio’s new Acqua series of plug-ins are painstakingly ‘sampled’ from high-end hardware. Does the end justify the means?

Many well-known engineers are now lending their names to plug-ins, and now metalcore specialist Joey Sturgis has joined the fray.

As well as modelling Drawmer’s versatile multiband mastering processor, Softube have boiled down its essentials to create an easy-to-use preset version.

Soft-synth specialist Rob Papen has branched out into the world of processors — but his RP EQ is no ordinary equaliser.

We’ve all had those ‘if only I could get rid of the drums!’ moments. Zynaptiq’s innovative plug–in promises to do just that.

The first product from Austrian developers Sonible aims to raise the IQ of EQ.

AmpliTube 4 gives the virtual guitarist more amp, cab and miking options than ever before.

Version 7 of iZotope’s mastering package adds cutting-edge codec monitoring features as well as vintage-themed processors.

Where one Soundtoys plug-in isn’t enough, you can now create custom chains, with a new emulation of a classic delay on offer too.

Anthology X makes many of Eventide’s signature effects available in native plug–in formats for the first time. Was it worth the wait?

Multimedia’s T-Racks mastering suite is a modular program: basic core functionality is free, and users build up a collection of tasty processors by making in-app purchases from the company’s Custom Shop.

McDSP’s SA2 Dialog Processor is based on hardware originally conceived by Academy Award winning re-recording mixer Mike Minkler...

Cobalt Saphira is the first of Waves’ new Cobalt series of plug-ins. It’s an enhancer effect, but one which goes way beyond conventional harmonic enhancers.

Although not as well-known as the classic Fairchild 660, the Telefunken U73b is in many ways its European counterpart.

A Waves plug-in based on the original hardware Dbx 160 designed by engineer David Blackmer in the early 1970s.

Acoustic guitar modelling Plug-in.

Whilst PSP’s basic design remains the same, with a graphic display of the overall EQ curve and controls for up to five parametric EQ bands. Almost every aspect has been enhanced in some way or another.

With the VST protocol now supported, more people than ever can use CEDAR’s industry-standard restoration tools.

Can Sonarworks’ calibration plug-in help to make mixing on headphones less of a compromise?