Elaine Sy

5 Best EQ Plugins (UPDATED: 2019) — Pro Audio Files

February 25, 2019 by Elaine Sy Leave a Comment

There are plenty of options to choose from when it comes to software equalizers. Almost every plugin manufacturer in the business has at least one. With so many options it can be hard to figure out which ones to pick and why.

The Fabfilter Pro-Q 3 sets the bar for utility. It is very transparent and extremely versatile making it perfect for any general work on any source that needs enhancement or correction. The Slate Digital FG-S & FG-A prides itself on doing analog emulations and making colorful sounding plugins.

Read more about this here: https://theproaudiofiles.com/eq-plugins/

Six ways to get a rock sound (without a band)

February 24, 2019 by Elaine Sy Leave a Comment

Software can be your surprisingly sustainable bandmate. It won’t be your best buddy in a pub but it can be your virtual bassist, your drummer, your guitarist or your acoustic or distorted star player. All from the solitude and safety of your studio. Here’s how…

For your acoustic-guitar player, you could do a lot worse than Native Instruments’ Session Guitarist Strummed Acoustic (£89). This Kontakt instrument is what they call an ‘always-on-call, professional session guitarist’, so you can play chords, articulations or just about anything else which has been heavily sampled from a dreadnought acoustic.

Rode launch their first SoundField mic

February 21, 2019 by Elaine Sy Leave a Comment

The NT-SF1 is a broadcast-grade, 360-degree surround sound capture microphone. The mic itself features four of Røde’s all-new, low-noise ½-inch TF45C capsules in tetrahedral array, for four-channel, A-format recordings. With there being four capsules, having low self-noise is of paramount importance when it comes to tetrahedral arrays like this.

Røode have also brought their Australian manufacturing expertise to bear in order to keep costs low while still producing what we expect to be a high-grade product. It gives budding VR creators, immersive filmmakers and videogame world builders an accessible and high-quality way to dive into 360-degree-with-height audio capture.

Tracktion Releases Waveform 9 Music Production Software

February 20, 2019 by Elaine Sy Leave a Comment

This powerful, easy to use, and affordable platform has been designed to enable musicians, artists and composers discover and explore their own unique sound. Included in this major new release is a compelling range of new features, add-ons, and additional content to improve workflow and inspire creativity.

Among the exciting range of new features, Waveform offers an unprecedented library of exclusive 24 track drum loop construction kits, recorded using the finest gear available. Users can combine this with the new Multi Sampler ‘one button’ import/slice tool to surgically dissect the beats and re-arrange them to produce alternative and unorthodox ideas.

Mixing: Peering Beyond The Bullsh%#

February 18, 2019 by Elaine Sy Leave a Comment

This is about understanding the core idea of the mixing process so that everything else we learn about it makes sense. I feel that in order to make this take on mixing make sense it’s really important to dissect what mixing even is, and why we are making the choices we make, to begin with.

If we go back in time we discover that mixing wasn’t even a thing until about 30 years into the world of making records. It wasn’t even a separate job from “engineering” until around the 80s.

Read more about this here: https://theproaudiofiles.com/what-is-mixing/