Weird tips and tricks for recording: Guitars No.1

Always looking for a new angle? Experimenting for me is much more interesting, unfortunately the more your learn about the correct ways of recording the less likely you are to just mess around. So I thought I’d start a new series of articles about recording in weird, cool and/or destructive ways Todays Tip: Using and […]

PC2: free vst compressor plugin

Found this compression plugin at Jeroen Breebaart’s free plugins, PC-2 Pschoacoustic compressor v1.0.1 ‘Conventional compressors are based on peak or rms-level estimation to compute their time-variant gain or attenuation. This property of most compressors often causes undesirable intermodulation distortion and pumping/breathing artefacts. PC-2 features a ‘psycho-acoustic relevance’ mode. Instead of using a peak or rms-level […]

Free Multi Effects VST Plugin: Stardust

Stardust is a free VST plug-in that is designed for channel processing as well as mastering. Audio is processed at 5 stages : Bass Enhancer Bass frequencies are enhanced around the selected frequency, with Q and gain control, then rotated in a 200Hz selectable pole rotator (0-off to 8 poles). Treble Enhancer Treble frequencies are […]

Free Compression VST Plugins: Mdsp Compressor

Excellent vst compressor plugin offered for free from smartelelectronix, ‘A simple and effective compressor with classic controls auto gain compensation and preamp to overdrive it.’ ‘there’s a side-chain version for vst win32 too here with 3 inlets, the third one being the side-chain. Not all host will accept to load it because of this. However any […]

Jay-Z breaks Elvis album record

‘Jay-Z is set to score his 11th American number one album, overtaking Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most chart-toppers in US chart history. The rap star’s new album Blueprint 3 is on course to top the Billboard 200 chart, taking him past Elvis’s record of 10 number ones. Billboard said the 39-year-old […]