Plug-ins
Erica Synths Zen Delay Virtual – A Mix Real-World Review
Our reviewer explains why "If you enjoy getting creative with sound—either live or in the studio—you’re going to love Zen Delay Virtual."
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Mixing Night Audio’s LOLComp Plug-In Debuts
Mixing Night Audio has introduced its second plug-in, LOLComp, which is intended to provide compression and tone shaping in a simple way.
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Waves Magma Springs Reverb Plug-in Ships
Waves Audio has unveiled the third plug-in for its Magma series—Waves Magma Springs, serving up seven different springs evoking different eras.
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Solid State Logic Launches G3 MultiBusComp Plug-In
SSL's new plug-in, the G3 MultiBusComp, brings multiband capabilities and new processing tools to the G Series glue & punch maker.
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Techivation M-De-Esser Plug-In Debuts
Techivation has launched its new M-De-Esser de-esser audio plug-in, intended for use reigning in sibilance and harshness in audio recordings.
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PSP BinAmp – A Mix Product of the Week
The PSP BinAmp plug-in emulates the preamp stage of the Echorec 2 Delay, an Italian hardware unit introduced in 1960.
Post and Broadcast
Bassett Gives Upmixer Plug-In A (Horror) Workout
Nick Bassett has been working on the upcoming AMC series Thick Skin and a Blu-ray reissue of the 1990 spoof, Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout....
Plug-ins
Sound Radix Auto-Align 2 – A Mix Real-World Review
Time-aligning and phase-correcting just got significantly easier with Sound Radix’s Auto-Align 2.
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Free Filtron Plug-In Debuts
Polyverse Music has introduced its latest free plug-in, Filtron, a 12 dB state variable filter.
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Neural DSP Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Suite — A Mix Real-World Review
A favorite of Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, John Petrucci and Prince, the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ now has a plug-in...
Plug-ins
Antares Auto-Tune Pro X – A Mix Real-World Review
The Mix knob is just one of many new features the updated Antares Auto-Tune Pro X plug-in adds to speed workflow.
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Waves Scheps Omni Channel 2 — A Mix Product of the Week
According to Waves, Scheps Omni Channel 2 is Andrew Scheps’ concept of the perfect channel strip.
Plug-ins
Universal Audio Waterfall Rotary Speaker — A Mix Real-World Review…in the USVI
Recording in the US Virgin Islands, our review team put UA's Waterfall Rotary Speaker plug-in to the test.
Plug-ins
KIT Plugins Smash — A Mix Real-World Review…in the USVI
Recording in the remote setting of the US Virgin Islands, our review team put KIT Plugins' new Smash dynamics plug to the test.
Post and Broadcast
Rik Simpson on Remixing Coldplay for Cinemas
Grammy-winning producer/engineer Rik Simpson recently mixed Coldplay in 5.1 surround for its 'Music of the Spheres' film.
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PSP stereoController2 — Mix Product of the Week
PSP’s stereoController2 offers handy features for mixing or mastering, including stereo image widening, frequency balance adjustment and time alignment.
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Waves Plug-ins Now OBS Studio-Compatible
Waves Audio plug-ins now officially run in OBS Studio, allowing users to apply them to OBS Video Streams for Twitch, YouTube and more.
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Free Plug-In: Nembrini Audio’s Big Stuff Guitar Pedal Emulation
Italy’s Nembrini Audio has introduced Big Stuff, a free plug-in intended to emulate the famed Electro-Harmonix Big Muff guitar fuzzbox.
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Melda Production MdrumStrip – A Mix Product of the Week
MDrumStrip offers a comprehensive solution for drum mixing that includes EQ, compression, saturation, gating, reverb and more.
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KIT Plugins BB N73 Preamp / EQ — A Mix Real-World Review
KIT Plugins’ latest offering, the BB N73, is modeled off of a dozen vintage 1073s owned by Nashville’s Blackbird Studios
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Antares Auto-Tune Vocal Compressor – A Mix Real-World Review
With the release of the Auto-Tune Vocal Compressor plug-in, Antares aims its vocal-software expertise at the crowded and competitive compressor market.
Post and Broadcast
‘Winnie The Pooh’ Slasher Flick Gets Audio Upgrades
Remixing the recent horror movie 'Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey' for theatrical and DVD release, Ryan Hatton had to upgrade his workflow.
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Dear Reality MIYA – Mix Product of the Week
The MIYA plug-in is a unique distortion processor that detects zero crosses in waveforms and replaces what’s between them with user-controlled additive synthesis.
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SoliderSound Debuts with Free S Pulser Plug-In
S Pluser, a free tremolo effect intended to help create rhythmic melodies, is the first plug-in release from software developer SoldierSound.
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Soundtoys SuperPlate — A Mix Product of the Week
Soundtoys made news at NAMM by announcing a multi-model plate reverb plug-in called SuperPlate.
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Ayaic Mix Monolith Plug-In — A Mix Real-World Review
Ayaic's Mix Monolith is an "automatic mixing system" that will get you "90 percent there" says our reviewer. Find out why!
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Fiedler Audio Debuts Dolby Atmos Composer Plug-Ins
Fiedler Audio has announced two new plug-in sets for working in spatial music: Dolby Atmos Composer and Dolby Atmos Composer Essential.
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Audiomovers Releases Inject and Omnibus 2.0
Audiomovers has released its Inject plug-in, facilitating the introduction of sources into a DAW, and Omnibus 2.0, which aids routing between devices and applications.
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Nugen Audio Launches Annotation Tool
Nugen Audio has announced a new timecode-linked annotation tool, Jotter, to aid communication between engineers, mixers and clients.
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FireSonic FirePresser Plug-In Temporarily Free
Firesonic has made its FirePresser analog compressor plug-in available for free through April 16.
Plug-ins
Waves Magma Tube Channel Strip – Mix Real-World Review
Mike Levine put the Waves Magma Tube Channel Strip Plug-In, with its modeled tube-drive circuit, to the test.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: The Audio Community Has Spoken
Steve La Cerra takes a look at Waves' much-discussed move into subscriptions and what that might mean for users and the company going forward.
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SSL SubGen Plug-In – Mix Product of the Week
SSL has created significant momentum in the plug-in market, and its latest entry, SubGen, a sub-bass harmonic synthesizer, should only add to that.
Business
Waves Brings Back Plug-In License Purchasing
Waves Audio has announced it will reinstate the option to purchase and update perpetual plug-in and bundle licenses.
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Waves’ Plug-Ins Go Subscription-Only
Waves has introduced Waves Creative Access, adopting a subscription model for its plug-ins going forward.
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Antares Auto-Tune Vocal Compressor – Mix Product of the Week
Antares has jumped into the plug-in compressor market with a bang, thanks to its new Auto-Tune Vocal Compressor plug-in.
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Celestion Copperback DSRs Roll Out
Celestion has released its Copperback collection for use with the company's SpeakerMix Pro plug-in.
Music Production
How Kevin Madigan Controls Transients in His Immersive Mixes
Mixer Kevin Madigan has been working on immersive mixes for Migos, Alessia Cara, Kid Cudi, Portugal The Man, Post Malone, Lizzo and Kendrick Lamar....
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Universal Audio Waterfall Rotary Speaker Plug-In Launched
Universal Audio's new Waterfall Rotary Speaker plug-in emulates the legendary Leslie Type 147 rotating speaker cabinet.
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Nembrini Audio MP1 Pro Programmable Tube Guitar Amplifier Plug-in Debuts
Italy’s Nembrini Audio has introduced its latest plug-in, the MP1 Pro Programmable Tube Guitar Amplifier.
Plug-ins
Sonible Metering Bundle — A Mix Real-World Review
Mike Levine dives into the Sonible Metering Bundle and finds that its True:Level and True:Balance plug-ins have different modus operandi.
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Massenburg DesignWorks MDWDRC2-Native Plug-in Gets Update
Massenburg DesignWorks has given its MDWDRC2-Native high-performance Dynamic Range Controller plug-in an extensive update.