Free vst guitar tube amp effect from Voxengo – excellent on guitars – and works well as harmonic enhancer in your mix. Tube Amp is an audio effect plug-in that applies asymmetric tube triode overdrive usually found in single-tube microphone pre-amp boxes. The sound this plug-in produces varies from a mild “warm” overdrive to a […]
Tag: Mixing
Audio Processing – Hog That CPU – UAD
If like me your CPU is shall we say a little on the outdated side then you’ll probably be looking at updating your pc. But what if you don’t have the moola or like me you simply can’t. ===Hang you say, why can’t you… I can’t for a few reasons, serial and parallel ports are […]
Blockfish – Free VST Compressor plugin
Really nice freeware vst compression plugin from digitalfishphones BLOCKFISH is a versatile compressor with countless ways to shape the incoming audio. Unlike many other digital compressors, BLOCKFISH has ‘soul’. It likes to bite, but it can be tamed easily once you’ve learned how to use its potential.
Home Recording Tips – Drums
Recording at home is hard – as a musician I find myself having to be producer, sound engineer, arranger, mastering engineer and IT department. That said it is a lot of fun and does bring it’s own rewards, even if they’re not financial. Let’s face it most project studios are potential money pits ha ha. […]
EQ – Jargon Busting – Graphic EQ
Graphic EQ – Basically as above picture shows the ‘graphic’ eq is a series of sliders. These sliders are preset values/frequencies – the curve is created by moving the sliders up and down. A cut would mean pulling a slider down and a boost would mean moving the slider up. Other Graphic EQ’s include these […]