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…
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…
Ahh, sibilance. Crucial for intelligibility, but lethal in high doses. And if you’re stacking your vocal tracks, that goes triple. The battle may be a little closer to won with the Tonmann De-Esser, a great little free plugin from Tonmann. Check out the spiel from the website: “Tonmann DeEsser is a basic high frequency dynamic…
I sometimes catch myself wondering these days: just how useful are these vintage emulations of classic hardware? Surely, with all the tech tools at our disposal these days we don’t need to stay stuck with designs from the 50s, right? Wrong! Audio junkies love vintage emulations and this one’s pretty cool. Now this free plugin…
There are few compressors more coveted than the legendary LA-2A compressor by Teletronix. The electro-optical compressor is famous for its gentle transparent compression, making it the perfect choice for pristine vocal levelling, bass and drums, or anything that requires gentle dynamic reduction or additional warmth. Free plugin versions are rare, so this is a sweet…
Here’s something awesome from the cool cats at TBProAudio. The Isol8 is an “advanced mix monitoring tool” which provides a range of functionality to help you achieve better mixes. It’s good stuff that lets you divide the frequency range into 5 bands. “These 5 bands can be soloed or muted individually. This will help you…
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