Mastering a Song with Bus

Mastering a Song with Bus

Bus is the sister plugin of the ever popular Strip, and while the latter can sit happily on every channel of your mix, the best place for the former is – you guessed it – on a bus. Don’t let the relatively simple GUI fool you: Bus is really a powerhouse, which gives...
Mixing Metal Drums with Grasso

Mixing Metal Drums with Grasso

Compression? Yes. Expansion? Definitely. Equalization and transient manipulation? Double check. Saturation? You bet. In short: Grasso is really a powerhouse when it comes to shaping the dynamics of an audio signal and giving it a nice, analog feel. In this episode, we...
Disto Preset Series: Synths, Keys & Strings

Disto Preset Series: Synths, Keys & Strings

From strong basses to fat leads as well as wide and warm keys – use the following presets to spice up your tracks with Disto. Please make sure you have the latest version of Disto installed (downloadable from your user area). Simply copy the text to your...
Disto Preset Series: Synths, Keys & Strings

Disto Preset Series: Drums

Explore Disto’s great capabilities as a drum compressor with the following presets. Please make sure you have the latest version of Disto installed (downloadable from your user area). Simply copy the text to your computer’s clipboard by...
Using SoundBrigade as a De-Esser

Using SoundBrigade as a De-Esser

Dealing with sibilance is probably one of the most frustrating tasks when it comes down to mixing vocals. Even the most perfect singers in the world sometimes can’t help but overemphasize those nasty “ess” and “shh” sounds, making an otherwise gorgeous take hard to...