A few posts ago I wrote about Mixwave’s analog emulations, including the D.W. Fearn VT-7 compressor. The companion to the VT-7 is the D.W. Fearn VT-5. “VT” stands for vacuum tube, because the original hardware is a vacuum tube-based stereo equalizer. While it’s technically a vintage device, the hardware is still sold and supported by […]

Color Grading Central has been an innovative developer in the color correction ecosystem for editors – first with LUTs and then later in 2018 when they launched the Cinema Grade plugin. That has now been replaced with the newly redesigned CineDream. Although similar in style to Cinema Grade, CineDream has been rebuilt from the ground […]

Some audio plugin developers seek to produce effects that correlate one-for-one with vintage hardware. Others throw that playbook out the window and engineer intelligent software tools that make sense in the modern world. Musik Hack fits that latter mold. Its previous products – Master Plan and FUEL – combine several functions into each control. Their […]

Mixers and recording engineers, especially those mixing music, will be quite familiar with the concept of Pan Law. Most digital audio workstation (DAW) software includes Pan Law settings to determine how you want panning to impact the levels within your mix. However, to my knowledge, no nonlinear editing (NLE) application offers the equivalent settings. Values […]

When it comes to unconventional effects plugins, Safari Audio is the king. Formerly Safari Pedals, the company has rebranded itself to better reflect its wider product line. Up until now, most of the Safari plugins have used interfaces designed to look like guitar pedals and are usually adorned with playful “Animal Cracker” style graphics. In […]