Plug-in effects have become the most important tools in a modern producer’s studio setup. The plug-in effect can do literally everything. From adding a gentle touch of reverb to your vocals to mastering a track; from helping to compose a tune to actually mixing one.
As with the virtual instruments before them, plug-in effects were developed to replace expensive hardware. Digital recording just wasn’t cutting it back in the early 1990s. This was because of those expensive analogue pieces that were used for recording throughout the 50s to 70s were ditched in the 80s to ‘do’ digital recording instead.
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