blues, indie Blues, making a Scene, plugin, recording, REDDI, VST
You wouldn’t think of a direct box as having a certain character, unless you’ve worked in a facility that has really good character DI’s. After all, in the age of Multi-I/O converters with DI inputs, it’s easy to forget the role that a quality DI box plays. High end DI boxes were used to help […]
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MELDAPRODUCTION MMULTIANALYZER NOISE FLOOR ANALYSIS WITH EXPANDER ENGAGED In the first picture, you’ll see 4 colored bands on the analyzer. The red band is the noise floor of my interface, and it’s reading down around -110dbfs. The dark orange band at the very bottom is where the expander is pushing that noise floor to, down […]
Addictive Drums 2, Audio, Ballou, beato, Channel, Compression, Custom, Cymbals, daw, demo, DRT, Drum, Drumagogg, Drumforge, drums, Effects, EQ, GUI, Instruments, Jay, Jigsaw, Joey, Kick, Kick 10, Kit, Kontakt, Kurt, Libraries, Library, Maas, making a Scene, Massey, MAutoAlign, melda, MeldaProduction, Midi, Mix, Mix Ready, Mono, Multi, Multichannel, Native, One Shot, Pack, plugin, Plugins, Processed, Producers, Production, Randy, Randy Staub, Raw, REAPER, rick, Room, Room Sound, Routing, Sample, Sampler, Samples, Slate Digital, Snare, Sound, Sound Radix, SSD4, SSD5, Staub, Stereo, Steven Slate Drums, Sturgis, Trigger, Unprocessed, wav, Workflow, XLN Audio, youtube
Understanding Drum Sample Libraries From bedroom producers, to the top brass mixing engineers with multiple grammies, there are a lot of people who use drum samples in their mixes. Joey Sturgis is famous for using Kick 10 from Steven Slate Drums in many of his productions (although now Joey Sturgis has his own sample library […]
1081, Analog, Analog Modeling, EQ, Factory, Hardware, Model, Modeled, Modeling, NEQ-1972, Neve, Nomad, plugin, Software, Software Modeling, V-Eq4, VST, Waves
Plugin manufacturers are on a never ending quest to develop the holy grail of plugins…the perfect digital model of a classic analog piece that everyone in the industry embraces as the most accurate, bar none. This is admirable in that it pushes the technology further and further, and now we have top tier mix engineers […]
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Back in the day, we had hardware. Since then, we started using software. Over the years, we’ve become better and better at developing this software so that it fools the trained ear into thinking it’s hardware. We make it move, overload, have noise, and try to recreate the exact sonic imprint of the hardware. We’ve […]
channelstrip, eventide, free, making a Scene, plugin, ultrachannel
UltraChannel™ is Eventide’s new 64-bit native channel strip plug-in for AU, VST, and AAX64 for Mac and PC featuring micro pitch functionality from our flagship H8000, stereo delays with variable feedback paths, plus two stages of compression, gating, and five bands of parametric EQ. UltraChannel is available as a free download through midnight July 8, […]
