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 –…
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…
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…
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…
Check out these free Marshall guitar cabinet impulse responses from Laptop Guitarist! We decided to test the tone of each of the four speakers loaded into our trusty Marshall 1960 Lead cabinet. We were amazed at the diffence between speakers and decided to capture the unique tonal characteristics of the whole cabinet and put it…
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…
Good quality, free drum kit VSTIs are few and far between. We’ve covered a couple in these pages, but none compare to the thoroughly excellent free SSD5 demo from Steven Slate Drums. It’s a full working kit, free of limitations, except one: the free version comes with just one kit, instead of the myriad instruments…
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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