TL;DW: BrassRider is One Weird Trick for drum overheads in metal! BrassRider.zip(353k) So this is pretty simple, and pretty distinctive. I made it for my friend Tim (one day I’ll repost his amazing rant, on the brink of his possible death, to musicians about ‘stop buying DAWs! Stop buying mic pres and plugins and becoming […]
TL;DW: Compresaturator fades between compressing and soft clipping. Compresaturator.zip(357k) This is eagerly anticipated. For some, it needs no introduction. For everyone else: one of the final plugins from the Kagi era, this stopped being available for a while when Kagi went out of business. It’s like a soft-saturator in which you can dial in even […]
TL;DW: BlockParty is like a moderately saturated analog limiter. BlockParty.zip(359k) What do you get when you cross an Airwindows compressor, with OneCornerClip? Pretty much this. Okay, so it wasn’t a very difficult riddle, was it? BlockParty acts like a somewhat distorty limiter. It’s not at all about lookahead (in fact it doesn’t have any) or […]
TL;DW: PurestSquish is an open-sounding compressor with bass bloom. PurestSquish.zip(355K) This time, the video’s enormously long so I’ll be brief: PurestSquish is a compressor, with its own sound. In the video I compare it to Pressure4, Logical4, and SurgeTide, and also show how it can be used in conjunction with SurgeTide (a real ‘sleeper’ plugin […]
