by Simon | Mar 25, 2020 | Mixing, Software
Deep kick drums, snappy snares, and fast hi-hat rolls–these are the ingredients of a classic hip-hop or trap beat. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how use the Presence and C165a plugins to give your drums the final touch and make them pound by using a combination of...
by Simon | Feb 28, 2017 | Mastering, Software
Mastering is all about making an already good mix sound even better. Using a mastering-grade compressor, then, is pretty much mandatory as it helps to glue all the different parts together, and make them sound more coherent. In many cases, a stereo (L-R) compressor...
by Simon | Feb 22, 2017 | Mixing, Software
So, we’ve been working on a little industrial tune lately. Everything is pretty much finished, except the drums sound a little dry and plain in their current state – time to change that! For this we reach for a real ‘Swiss Army Knife’ kind of plugin: the saturation...
by Simon | Feb 15, 2017 | Mixing, Software
Today we’re going to use the Rev250 reverb plugin to turn a dry and sterile clean rock guitar riff into an atmospheric, deep melody. As you might already know, the Rev250 is modeled on the first digital reverb that was originally introduced way back in the 1970s. This...
by Simon | Feb 2, 2017 | Mastering, Mixing, Software
In this tutorial, we will use the GTS39 – Limiting Tube Compressor to finalize a modern EDM track. The song has already been mixed down, and is ready for mastering. The GTS39 plugin seems to be a very simple piece of software at first glance. But don’t let the clean...
