Mixing & Mastering from Stems with Plugin Alliance

Justin Colletti cracks open a track from the artist Astral Fisch to show off some of his favorite techniques—and some of his favorite plugin emulations of boutique analog hardware from Plugin Alliance.

You’ll hear for yourself how simply choosing the right tools for the job can help you completely transform the sense of impact and polish from a set of raw stems—and with a minimum of tweaks. A few minor changes really can amount to a big difference across mix in moments.

Selections include plugins like the brainworx consoles, Masterdesk, the elysia mpressor, the Purple Audio MC77, the Millenia and Maag EQs, the Shadow Hills mastering compressor, the SPL Transient Designer, ADPTR Audio Metric AB and more.

Thanks to Plugin Alliance for sponsoring this tutorial. Check out all the tools in their MEGA Bundle for FREE for 14 days. Be sure to take advantage of their special sale on the Mega Bundle by November 30.

Special thanks to artist Astral Fisch (Sharon Fischman) for providing this beautiful track. Hear more from her on Spotify.

Thanks also to Ben Rice and the team at Degraw Sound for their fabulous production work and for sending these excellent stems to work from.

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