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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There are a lot of great plugins out there, particularly older plugins, which you might find yourself having difficulty running on a newer computer. This was my experience when I got a new computer a years ago and discovered that suddenly all of my 32 bit plugins no longer worked. Thankfully, your 32 bit plugins
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I’ve talked at length on here about my love of FabFilter’s Pro-Q 3. In my FabFilter Pro-Q 3 review, I called this my favorite plugin, EQ or otherwise and specifically mentioned if I could only have one plugin, this would be it because it’s the only plugin in my mix which I use on virtually
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