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…
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…
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…
Looking for a face-melting amp model with a big, fat sound? Introducing the almost-too-heavy Serpent Amp plug-in available for free for a limited time from Kazrog. “For a limited time, we’re doing something crazy – giving away what has proven to be one of the most favored amp models from the entire Thermionik collection –…
It’s great to get the full package in a free plugin and this one has it all. “Combining the best elements of selected vintage gear into a single plugin, SonEQ is a three band (bass, middle, and treble) digital equalizer with a pre-amp section.” “SonEQ is a digital equalizer that takes parts from some vintage…
Here’s a sweet channel strip plugin from DMG Audio offering all the utilities from the top and bottom of a console channel plus MS Panning, time compensation and more. Fully equipped stereo toolkit M/S encode and decode M/S and L/R Panning Stereo Width control Channelstrip input controls for Phase and LR Swap High-pass filter with adjustable frequency…
Personally, when I think of Fender amps I don’t really think of ‘solid state’ or ‘practice amps’. So why would someone go to the trouble of building a sim of one? It’s a fair question. “‘Huh, a solid state Fender practice amp model. Now that is an interesting choice’ – was the initial response from…
Oh boy, where to start with the huge selection from DSK? Actually, let’s start with the negative: Some of DSK’s stuff isn’t the best available. Orchestral sounds can be a little shallow sounding, some stuff is a little crude and some stuff just doesn’t sound good. Having said that, the range from DSK is, generally,…
iZotope makes some of the best audio manipulation plugins out there so it’s super cool they’re giving away the Neutrino absolutely free of charge. The spiel: “Add that final polish to your mix with Neutrino, a free spectral shaping plug-in based on the new mixing technology featured in Neutron. Insert Neutrino on multiple tracks across…
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