Do-it-yourself kits are becoming more and more common in the audio community, especially among the more ambitious—and more thrifty—among us. With a bit of time and focus, you can wind up with professional-grade audio equipment worth much more than the literal sum of its parts.
There is a very wide Read more...
The on-line tutorial for The Cargo Cult’s Slapper introduces this plugin as a “multi-tap delay which can be hardware controlled and has freakish potential for sound design.”
Truer words have never been spoken! Well, they probably have, but it really is true: Slapper’s power as a radical sound design tool Read more...
A few months back, I was asking a colleague what plugin had him really hot and bothered. He said Output Exhale, a new vocal instrument for Native Instruments’ Kontakt platform, was it for him. He sent me a link and I checked it out.
Reading through the literature and Read more...
The original hardware ACME Opticom XLA3 is a beast of a compressor, with three switchable tube powered opto-electric circuits and tons of tone.
Recently, brainworx and Plugin Alliance have released a software emulation of this modern classic with all that, plus some bonus features.
Features and Use
The Opticom is Read more...
I’m usually a bit skeptical when claims are made about how “original” a new plugin is, but Brainworx bx_panEQ is something truly different.
With three uniquely flexible bands of EQ that give you control over both the spatial and frequency elements of your mix, chances are you have never seen Read more...
