Plugins are essential to an audio engineer’s workflow, and they’re improving every day.
But virtual tools for tracking, mixing, mastering, editing and audio post aren’t perfect yet. SonicScoop asked top audio engineers from across the professional spectrum what else they’d like to see, and we got some eye-opening requests: from Read more...
Waves releases Bass Slapper plugin.
Bass Slapper is the newest addition to Waves’ expanding line of virtual instruments. Over the years, there have been many attempts to sample the sound of slap bass and recreate it as a virtual instrument, but nothing has come close to the sound of recording Read more...
M-Audio announces the Uber Mic.
M-Audio’s brand-new Uber Mic features USB and headphone connectivity, enabling you to record instruments, vocals, podcasts, and just about anything else—regardless of location.
With A/D converters that provide 16-bit resolution digital audio, recordings will exhibit exceptional dynamic range that capture every nuance and subtlety Read more...
Kush announces Novatron has arrived.
Novatron is an analog-modeled compressor that borrows so many sonic properties from so many different classic hardware units that, ironically, it could only exist in the world of DSP.
Novatron has separate input and output transformer Saturations, two optional Tone circuits, and a monstrous Compressor Read more...
If characteristics like “punch”, “aggression”, “energy”, “color” and versatility are what you look for in a compressor, you’d be doing yourself a disservice by not getting your hands on some form or another of the classic API 2500 bus compressor, whether it be hardware or software.
Until recently, those of Read more...
