Analog and Digital have their pros and cons. For this MixCon workshop, Charles Hoffman walks us through a direct comparison of hardware and software compressors on several real world audio examples.
Big thanks to Empirical Labs for hooking us up with their Distressor analog compressor and Arousor digital compressor to Read more...
Empirical Labs, makers of the famed Distressor compressor have two acclaimed recent plugins that are being constantly updated: The Big FrEQ and the Arousor.
Find out all the tricks here as producer Ryan Earnhardt walks us through their functions and mixes an entire track using practically nothing but these two Read more...
Empirical Labs Inc., (ELI), the New Jersey-based audio hardware manufacturer and software developer, announced that is has named Matt Ward as Strategic Advisor. Empirical Labs is the creator of such well-known music and sound production tools as the Distressor, FATSO, and Lil FrEQ hardware units, and AROUSOR and BIG FrEQ Read more...
A compression obsession. That’s what was building up inside a young audio engineer named Dave Derr, slowly but surely shaping a mind for dynamics until his concept was converted to reality: the Empirical Labs Distressor.
Derr’s fascination went hand in hand with the special magic that he experienced early on Read more...
Drums are always interesting to mix. Simply bringing together and balancing as many as 20 or 30 mics is an art in itself. Perhaps because of this, there seem to be more plugins made specifically for mixing drums than just about any other instrument.
Today, I’d like to parse through Read more...
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