Realistic Orchestral Strings
Orchestral elements play a more significant role in today’s music than we might expect. They give the average listener something they can relate to and provide a sense of familiarity in everything from soundtracks and video games to film scores and Top 40 hits....
Advanced Panning with PanMan by SoundToys
Panning is an essential audio processing task that producers often neglect. From the early days of mixing audio, it was always present and used, especially in studio recording sessions. Nowadays we have a broad spectrum of audio plugins that can be adjusted...
Transform Your Vocal Into Something Completely Different
In the past decade, we have witnessed some groundbreaking innovations in audio mangling and modulation in general. What seemed to be impossible at the end of the 20th century, nowadays became a standard in audio production. Having in mind, in the next tutorial we have...
Separate the Elements in the Full Mix by Using UNMIX::DRUMS
The last decade brought us some handy audio processing tools. The kind of audio processing tools we never imagined that would be possible. Having this in mind I will dedicate the next tutorial to one of these plugins. Have you ever imagined to be able to boost the...
Drum and Bass Elements
Drum and bass music grew out of the UK underground rave scene in the ’90s. Since then, it has branched off into countless sub-genres and derivations, each with their artists and varying levels of prominence. Despite a complex set of influences and roots tied in Funk,...
Widen Your Synth Leads in NI Massive
Stereo Widening You have probably wondered how to get that huge super-saw synth lead that you often hear in today's popular EDM genres. Indeed, It's not about just choosing the right waveforms within oscillators or using the EQ to amplify certain frequencies....
Useful Tips for Mixing Kick and Bass
As you probably already know, it's all about that bass. In today’s popular electronic genres, your mix largely depends on how you control the low-end of the frequency spectrum. Mixing and affecting low-end is a rather complex skill that requires time, practice, and an...
Remove Unwanted Noise
Removing unwanted noise from recorded dialogue is always a tricky process. Over the past decades, we were introduced to a vast number of audio processors capable of doing this task. Some of them were more sophisticated and equipped with better algorithms than others....
Eliminate Vocal Sibilance with DeEsser
Back in the day, vocals were usually recorded far away from the microphone. While all this was going on, there was no need for a handy little thing called DeEsser. As technology progressed, we were able to record vocals by singing or speaking closer to the microphone,...
