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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As I covered in my overview on bass DI versus amp, recording bass DI has a number of advantages over recording with an amp. Aside from the convenience and relative cost savings in being able to just plug straight into your recording hardware, you can still get a great tone without needing to go through
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De-essing plugins are useful for controlling vocal sibilance (those annoying transients on “S” and other consonant sounds) on vocals. A good de-esser softens sibilance on vocals with transparency without further affecting the tone. While I love FabFilter’s Pro-DS for being able to smartly identify sibilance in particular for ultra transparency, there are plenty of good
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