by Simon | Jan 20, 2017 | Mixing, Software
In this tutorial, we’re going to use the Verbtone plate reverb plugin to lend some rather dry nu metal drums more depth and space. When mixing drums, a plate reverb is often a great choice: it generally sounds smooth and natural while also creating a three-dimensional...
by Simon | Jan 13, 2017 | Mixing, Software
Following the last tutorial, in today’s session we’re going to continue to explore the capabilities of the MotorTown virtual drum set. After some initial treatment inside the MotorTown plugin itself we will use SoundBrigade as well as Mattertone to turn the acoustic...
by Simon | Jan 4, 2017 | Mixing, Software
In the last tutorial, we showed you how to use MotorTown’s built in effects to radically change the timbre of the original drum set. Today, we’re going to take this one step further with the help of Disto. As you might already know, Disto is a powerful compressor...
by Simon | Jan 2, 2017 | Mixing, Software
MotorTown is far more than a virtual drum plugin. It’s also a song building tool, and it even gives you all sorts of tools to shape the sound of the drums thanks to its suite of built in effects – compression, equalization, and more. In this tutorial, we will use...
by Simon | Dec 20, 2016 | Mastering, Mixing, Software
Today, we’re going to use Presence to enhance a short piece of cinematic music. Presence is a multimode and multiband exciter plugin with a few extra features up its sleeve that can help you refine mixes and even single tracks. We will use it to enhance the low end of...