Natural Drums Audio Demo

Natural Drums Audio Demo

  Hi there, let’s take a listen to the last transcribed style. A funk based track with a slow trip-hop groove: regular kick on 1/1 and 3/3 hi-hat and ride variations occasional charleston openings/closures snare backbeat Swing selector set to less than half...
Sound Design with DDD and Necklace

Sound Design with DDD and Necklace

Today it’s time for some creativity. That is, there will be no audio related problem solving, and no actual mixing, but instead: sound design! The tools of the trade are the super-lush DDD chorus plugin as well as the physically modeled Necklace spring reverb. We’re...
Warm Synth Sounds with Presence

Warm Synth Sounds with Presence

Being a multimode exciter, Presence analyses the incoming signal and dynamically adds new content to the frequency spectrum, that wasn’t there before. Thus, whenever you think that an instrument or even a whole mix lacks that little bit of strength, weight, or...
Finalizing a Mix with Cuttertone

Finalizing a Mix with Cuttertone

Today we’re going to be looking at a plugin which, for some indefinite reason, we haven’t actually featured on our blog at all yet: Cuttertone. We want to make up for that and show you exactly what this plugin does and why it can be an invaluable tool for...
Modern Hi-fi Drums with SDC

Modern Hi-fi Drums with SDC

In the last session, we used the GTS-39 compressor to push a raw and heavy Drum’n’Bass drum loop to the limit. In this tutorial, however, we’ll do kind of the opposite, and treat a modern sounding drum track with some carefully adjusted compression – so that it sounds...