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RED MICROPHONES Type BBy Rich Wells Red Microphones (a division of Blue Microphones) was originally created to serve as a source for vintage mic parts. The first branded mic from Red Microphones... |
AUDIO EASE Altiverb 5 (Mac)By Larry the O Audio Ease, the first manufacturer to release a real-time convolution-reverb plug-in, started the convolution revolution in earnest with Altiverb. Initially... |
COVER STORY: Stack in the BoxBy Orren Merton After its introduction in 1998, Line 6's Pod probably did more to popularize the concept of digital guitar-amp modeling than any other product. But another... |
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS GUITAR RIG 1.1 (MAC/WIN)By Mike levine Following in the footsteps of their hardware counterparts, more and more software developers have been putting out products that feature guitar-amp and effects modeling.... |
EVENTIDEBy Nick Peck Eventide has released Octavox ($595), a TDM plug-in that brings the diatonic pitch-shifting algorithms of their hardware processors to the world of Pro... |
ANTARES Auto-Tune 4 (Mac/Win)By Michael Cooper Auto-Tune 4 is the most powerful, flexible, and user-friendly version yet of Antares's popular pitch-correction plug-in. It offers numerous new tools... |
EVENTIDEBy Nick Peck Eventide's succinctly named Reverb plug-in brings the reverb algorithms of their hardware-based processors to the world of Pro Tools plug-ins. Reverb... |
SoundToys PhaseMistress (Mac) phase-shifter plug-inBy Nick Peck SoundToys PhaseMistress is an analog-style phase shifter plug-in for Mac-based Pro Tools systems. PhaseMistress includes RTAS, AudioSuite, and HTDM versions of the plug-in and is compatible with Mac OS 9 and OS X. An iLok hardware key is required for copy protection.... |
ANTARES AUDIO TECHNOLOGIES Filter 1.0 (Mac/Win)By Len Sasso Len Sasso reviews Antares Filter 1.0, a four-stage multimode filtering and delay plug-in that offers a variety of DSP effects.... |
EVENTIDE Clockworks Legacy Bundle 1.12By Nick Peck Eventide has re-created its original ground-breaking processors in plug-in form. Dubbed the Clockworks Legacy Bundle, this group of five plug-ins for Mac-based Pro Tools TDM systems brings a seventies vibe to a desktop near you.... |
Trillium Lane Labs TL EveryPhase 1.1 (Mac/Win)By Nick Peck Trillium Lane Labs TL EveryPhase is a phaser plug-in for Pro Tools systems. It supports RTAS and TDM formats and offers some unique processing features.... |
Dave Pensado's Plug-In Secretsby Mike Levine With all of the contemporary pop and R&B songs that he mixes, Dave Pensado has become a huge fan of plug-in effects. In the April 2004 EM cover story,... |
Let's Split!By Michael Cooper A studio pro explains how split-band (aka multiband) compression works and how it can improve your mixes and solve everyday audio problems. Then he looks at several choices you have when selecting a split-band compressor... |
GRM Tools ST (Mac/Win)By Peter Freeman France’s INA-GRM has been producing innovative sound-processing software for a number of years. Starting in the 1990s with their original GRM Tools standalone application and continuing to more recent TDM plug-ins, they’ve earned a reputation for powerful and imaginative products. The new GRM Tools ST (Spectral Transform; VST $399, RTAS/HTDM/AS/VST bundle, $549) is the latest installment in the evolution of their processing tools.... |
DEVINE MACHINE SOFTWARE Devine Machine 1.0 (WIN)By Peter Freeman Devine Machine Software's Devine Machine is a loop-manipulation tool that gives users unprecedented control over multiple loops in real time. Because... |
THE SOUND GUY SFX Machine RT (MAC/WIN)By Len Sasso SFX Machine RT ($150) carries on the tradition of Earl Vickers's extremely versatile SFX Machine plug-in (formerly in Adobe Premiere format). RT stands for real time, which is the big change in this new version that now comes in VST (OS 8 and 9, OS X, Win) and Audio Units (OS X) plug-in formats.... |
Plugging into EQBy Nick Peck A quick look at the plug-in marketplace reveals that EQ plug-in prices are all over the map. Is there a correlation between price and performance? How much difference is there in sound quality among the different EQs? And are some types of EQ better than others?... |
ANTARES Tube (MAC/WIN)By Michael Cooper Antares Tube is an inexpensive cross-platform plug-in designed to add the sonic characteristics of analog tube preamps to DAW tracks.... |
STEINBERG Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition (MAC/WIN)By Geary Yelton Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition is a VST instrument plug-in that plays electric guitar samples. Like the original Virtual Guitarist, VG EE effectively substitutes for a rhythm guitarist when you’re sequencing tracks in a DAW. It also includes Virtual Guitarist Electric FX, a pedalboard plug-in for processing guitar sounds.... |
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