Signal Processors

EQ will make or break your master. It's the single most important factor in mastering, once you've decided the loudness...

Your DAW makes it easy to fake old-school doubling techniques, and gives you much more control than producers had in days gone by. We show you how...

Multiband compressors offer unique advantages over their broadband cousins — but they also present some perilous pitfalls for the unwary.

Mike Senior explores the subject of Haas delays at mixdown, explaining how they work, how to get the best out of them, and how to avoid the most common traps associated with them.

Creating your own shimmer reverb effects is easy, and gives you plenty of creative control.

Mark Crabtree of AMS Neve chats with Sam Inglis about how two of the biggest names in UK audio technology came together, and how they are using their unique expertise in analogue and digital audio to develop their next wave of studio products.

Compression can do radically different things to the sound of a snare drum, depending on how it's set up. In this episode, Mike Senior explores three ways in which a compressor can help bring your snare tracks to life.

Reverb plug-ins can present a bewildering variety of parameters. We explain what they're there for, and how to put them to good use!

You can do so much more with noise gates and expanders than nix unwanted noise...

We explore some more advanced techniques and less-obvious applications for Synchro Arts’ powerful audio-alignment processor.

We dive deeper into Synchro Arts’ powerful pitch-processing and audio-alignment software.

This uniquely powerful pitch, energy and time alignment software could save you hours of edits.

Have you ever wondered how to separate a vocal or the instrumental backing from a stereo mix? We find out what’s possible — and what isn’t.

Have you ever wondered how to separate a vocal or the instrumental backing from a stereo mix? We find out what’s possible — and what isn’t.

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Pitch-correction software has lots of uses besides putting vocals in tune! We uncover the creative roles to which today’s pitch processors can be employed.

Pitch correction of vocal parts is now commonplace in all but a few genres. Find out how to craft a professional-sounding result.

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Take Sonar back to the ’60s with this vintage-style tape-flanging effect!

Now that we have digital models and dynamic convolution technology, were spoilt for choice when it comes to classic compressor flavours. But whether hardware or software, which is right for which job?

Second-hand tape recorders are cheap and can provide uniquely warm, organic delay effects. Best of all, its a piece of cake to integrate them into a digital mixing setup. We tell you how...