Happy new year audio lovers and music nerds!

Today, we’ve got a roundup of our most popular posts of 2018. Every single one of these was read up to tens of thousands of times. So if you missed any of these killer posts when they came out, now is the time to catch up!

For the first time ever, 8 out of our top 10 most popular posts were our gear roundups and buyers’ guides. To bring a little more variety to this year end list, we’re going to “cheat” a little bit and include the top 5 tutorial posts as well, for a top 15 list broken down by category.

While our roundups were our most read posts of the year, the tips and tutorials were arguably the fan favorites with far more “likes” per click than any other type of post.

Which were your favorites? And what would you like to see us do more of in 2019? Let us know in the comments below.

The Top 10 Gear Roundups and Buyer’s Guides:

From unconventional sample libraries to mix bus compressors, our gear roundups were some of the most read posts of 2018.

1. 5 “Must-Have” Unique & Specialty Instrument Libraries for Kontakt

2. Audio Shootout: The 10 Best Tape Saturation Plugins on the Market

3. The 10 Best Delay Plugins on the Market

4. Best Plugins: The Great SSL Channel Strip Roundup

5. The Great Mix Bus & Mastering EQ Plugin Roundup: Which One is Best for Your Approach?

6. 11 Unglamorous “Must-Haves” That Every Recording Studio Needs

7. Top 5 Tube Saturation Plugins: An Audio Showdown of the Best Dedicated Tube Saturators

8. The (Updated) Big List of Free Pro Tools Plugins

12. The 10 Best All-Around Reverb Plugins on the Market

13. 7+ Indispensable Plugins for Surround Sound Mixing

The Top 5 Tutorials of 2018:

Our tutorial posts, while read slightly less than our gear roundups, were fan favorites, with many more “likes” per read than any other type of post.

9. Everything You Need to Know About Audio Metering But Were Afraid to Ask

10. Audio Mixing for VR: The Beginners Guide to Spatial Audio, 3D Sound and Ambisonics

11. Real Producers and Engineers Know How to Use Amp EQ

14. Mixing with Impact: 12 Ways to Command and Direct a Listener’s Attention

15. The Essential New Pro Tools 2018 Shortcuts and Tricks You Need to Know

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