Reverb. In the early days of the all-inclusive DAW the poor quality of reverberation plug-ins were always high on the list (a long list) of a given engineer’s complaints. In fact, the poor quality reverb of early plug-ins was enough to dissuade anyone from mixing in the box.
I remember Read more...
When iZotope released RX 2 earlier this year, it significantly updated one of the industry-leading audio restoration programs with a slew of helpful new features. The original version wowed customers with its intuitive visual editing capabilities, which uses a spectrogram and advanced processing to wipe away unwanted elements of a Read more...
In the first week of November, just as they began shipping an unprecedented new product called Pro Tools|HD Native, Avid made an even more stunning announcement: They would break free of Digidesign’s mold by demolishing the distinctions between HD and LE software to offer one platform – Pro Tools 9. Read more...
As a mix engineer, I’ve spent increasingly more and more time in front of my home rig in the last couple years and less time in front of big mixing consoles in studios stocked with outboard gear.
Because of this, it’s essential that the tools I’ve grown accustomed to in Read more...
It pains me to say it, but the days of mixing entirely in the analog domain and using your DAW as merely a tape machine are waning.
As proof of this, the number of high quality tape emulation and saturation plug-ins on the market has grown considerably in the past Read more...
