Autotune is an effect used to either save yourself time tuning up a vocal or creating some interacting aesthetic effects in your mix (as I covered in my recent overview on how to use autotune). Let’s talk what is the best autotune as I’ll be offering up both a free and premium option for getting […]
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Created in the late 90’s, autotune is one of the more novel types of audio processing you can use in your mix. Autotune can be applied to instruments, but it’s most often applied to vocals as has been done in some very famous and recognizable examples, so let’s share some of those as we quickly
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I put together an ode to Decapitator from Soundtoys, talking about this plugin and even crowning it the best saturator plugin. This is an impressive feat considering this plugin came out over a decade ago and hasn’t had any updates aside from compatibility (see 64 bit vs 32 bit plugins). While its interface is extremely
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Vocals are one of the biggest priorities in your mix. In some genres, vocals are THE centerpiece around everything else in the mix revolves. As such, the vocals aren’t something you can sweep under the rug, they need to sparkle otherwise the mix will suffer. I recently covered my personal vocal chain, sharing both the
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Saturation is a very useful tool in the mixing engineer’s arsenal for addressing all kinds of issues. It adds warmth via overtones, essentially adding frequency information which didn’t exist before to achieve a fuller sound in tracks which need it. When it comes to the most useful, almost Swiss Army Knife-like plugins/effects which I use
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