Reviews Archives - Music Guy Mixing https://www.musicguymixing.com/category/reviews/ Mixing Services and Tutorials Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:36:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.musicguymixing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-music-guy-favicon-32x32.png Reviews Archives - Music Guy Mixing https://www.musicguymixing.com/category/reviews/ 32 32 The Best Saturator Plugin – Why It’s Decapitator https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-saturator-plugin/ https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-saturator-plugin/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:32:53 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=4182 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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]]> https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-saturator-plugin/feed/ 0 Is This the Best Bass Amp Modeler? https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-bass-amp-modeler/ https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-bass-amp-modeler/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:32:13 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=4130 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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]]> https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-audio-compressor/feed/ 0 The Best Plugins For Mixing – Evergreen Edition https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-plugins-for-mixing/ https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-plugins-for-mixing/#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:06:36 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=1394 I’ve been mixing music professional for over 15 years now. I’ve used hundreds of plugins in that time, and over that time I find myself reaching for a select few time and time again. I thought I’d put together a list of the best plugins for mixing based on the ones I feature in literally […]

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]]> https://www.musicguymixing.com/best-plugins-for-mixing/feed/ 0 FabFilter Pro-Q 3 Review https://www.musicguymixing.com/fabfilter-pro-q-3-review/ https://www.musicguymixing.com/fabfilter-pro-q-3-review/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:36:10 +0000 https://www.musicguymixing.com/?p=836 I’ve talked a lot about EQ recently including the best settings for every instrument in your mix in my EQ cheat sheet. The plugin I keep referencing whenever I talk about EQ is arguably my favorite plugin in my arsenal, EQ or otherwise, the FabFilter Pro-Q. Because it’s always the first plugin I recommend getting, […]

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