I love the team at United Plugins. Not only are they cool cats, they make some freakin’ unbelievable plugins. LTG favourite’s include the wild FrontDAW plugin, the FireCobra and the Quick AG, just to name a few. Now they’ve released the fantastic Retronaut, a multi-voice vibrato and chorus with lo-fi effects. Inspired by old analogue…
Parallel compression is great for producing a range of effects, from fattening up that drum track, to, well, fattening up that full mix. Okay, parallel compression is for fattening stuff up, basically. Duplicate your track, smash the shit out of it with a compressor, mix to taste. It’s a handy technique, and this new free…
It’s not easy mixing acoustic instruments. Gat, uke or mandolin, not only is every finger slide, relieved breath and chair creak audible, but instrument issues, phasing issues, and EQ problems can make getting a slick, professional sound from that all-analogue instrument trickier than it might seem. Here’s a new solution from the teams at FireSonic…
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Gibson is asking for the public’s assistance in recovering a missing shipping ledger book from 1959-1960, which documents an important period in the company’s 126-year-old history and the pinnacle of the Gibson Golden Era. “The 1959-1960 Gibson shipping ledger has been missing from Gibson’s archives for at least thirty years,” says the company. “It may not…
Valhalla Plugins, maker of many mighty ambiance and modulation effects have just release a phat new plugin, the Valhalla Supermassive, and what do you know, it’s free. Here’s the spiel: “ValhallaSupermassive is designed to blow your mind and your music to new levels of consciousness and experience! Luscious clouds of reverb, otherworldly delays, swelling waves…
The top chaps at Audio Assault have done it again, this time giving away their new no-frills SI6MA Amp plugin for free. With ultra responsive bass, mid, treble and gain controls, as well as focus, presence, depth and master volume, this no-nonsense guitar amp VST delivers balls-to-the-wall metal and not much else. Here’s the spiel:…
We’ve written about Steven Slate Drums before, and what we said then is just as true now: SSD.5 is the best free drum software in the world, bar none. Now SSD.5 has been updated and it’s very, very good. Here’s the speil: “SSD 5.5 FREE is here and it’s packed with new kits, a new easy…
Another day, another VST guitar amp. That’s a good thing, I say – I’ve downloaded about a hundred of them so I see no reason to stop now. So what have we got today? At its core, the Crunck V2 Guitar Amplifier is a single channel all purpose/metal monster VST from Nembrini Audio (run by…
I don’t know about you, but when I started collecting cabinet impulses all those years ago, I thought I’d find one or two that I truly loved and that would be the end of it. I can now admit the foolishness of such thinking. Fact is, I now own hundreds – if not thousands –…
iZotope are always doing good stuff, and here’s a particularly excellent thing: A vocal doubler plugin for free! Here’s’ the spiel: “iZotope Vocal Doubler is a free plug-in designed to enhance your vocal with a natural doubling effect, adding richness and depth. Our acclaimed doubling technology has been reimagined with a brand new interactive UI…
The Kuassa team do ready good stuff. Their amp sims are second to none and they’re really nice guys too. (Check out our interview with CTO Arie Ardiansyah and CEO Grahadea Kusuf if you don’t believe me). Here’s another thing I like about them: They really seem to understand guitarists. You can see that in…
United Plugins is doing some wicked stuff, I tell you. (Check out our in-depth interview here). This time around, it’s the FrontDAW, a lightweight plugin that emulates the warmth and saturation of a real channel strip right there in your DAW. “As the name suggests, Front DAW is intended to be used as the very…
This has got to be one of the better the cab sims out there. Coming with nine guitar cabinets, all captured with six different microphones – that can be combined to endless possibilities – there are tonal possibilities aplenty with the MIKKO. You can place the mics anywhere – in front of the dust cap,…
Few things in this world are certain, other than death, taxes and the indisputable fact that Klanghelm makes amazing plugins. The Germany-based software company makes a range of best-in-show compressors and saturation plugins – we love and use them often – so we tracked down head honcho Tony Frenzel to get the inside skinny on…
A wicked plugin-in octave divider in the vein of an iconic pedal? Yes please. Built by one Christopher Hooker, the OC-D2 is basically an octave divider – it can generate pitch shifts to either one or two octaves below. It’s also an homage – in look and feel at the very least – to the…
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