To round out Plugin Use/Abuse Month here on Designing Sound here are some neat tips and tricks from the 3 hosts of the Tonebenders Podcast. Timothy Muirhead: Convolution Reverbs are amazing tools to have in your arsenal of plugins. Unlike conventional digital reverbs which simulate theoretical spaces with arbitrary parameters, convolution reverbs use signal processing to … [Read more...]
I Love Plug-ins!
Guest Contribution by Tom Todia I love Plug-Ins! There, I feel much better now. Since January is the month of the plug-in here at Designing Sound, I thought this was a great opportunity to share one of my new favorites with you. This plug-in does exactly what its name states but it has a twist that I absolutely love. If you have not yet used it then allow me to introduce … [Read more...]
Transient Enhancement With Explosions
Article By: Frank Bry Transient enhancement plug-ins are wonderful tools to have in a sound designer’s arsenal. They can be used to soften a sound or to make it balls to the wall, hard hitting intense. Explosion sounds really benefit from this type of process. If you have recorded explosions, you may already have discovered that live is much better than tape, or should I … [Read more...]
Dynamics Processors = Envelope Generators
Charles Maynes' post earlier this month reminded me of an idea I had but never bothered to actually test out...using dynamics processors as envelope generators. If you've ever listened to me rant at all in the last two and a half years I've been active in this online community, you've probably at some point heard me say, "Compressors don't make things louder, make up gain … [Read more...]
Pausing Modulation in Enigma
I thought a quick video would be the more efficient way to present this one. [youtube]http://youtu.be/OJB7yDpoFAE[/youtube] … [Read more...]
Design Toolbox #1 – Flangers
[This was originally posted a year ago and has been republished because it fits in with this month's theme - Varun] Inspired by Miguel's 'SFX Lab' series, I thought it would be nice to start a series on using conventional plugins to design sounds. With many of us primarily working off DAWs with a mouse pointer and plugin windows, there isn't much room for 'hands-on' … [Read more...]
A Plug-in Vector Matrix
Guest Contribution by Charles Maynes The best things in life are sort of free... Peter Gabriel once described his creative process as being an “X” and ”Y” sort of thinking- Basically trying to segregate his “artistic” thinking from his “technical” thinking. In this DAW universe we live in, we seem to be constantly flipping modes...and often times we want to be able to … [Read more...]