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In this article you will find the top 20 absolutely free VST effect plugins, which you can use in any music production software. These include reverbs, saturators, compressors, delays, choruses, transient shapers, vocal processing effects and much more! 1. Destruqtor This plugin is a great, simple distortion. The circular control allows you to select the right amount of odd and even harmonics, while the Auto Gain feature ensures the loudness stays the same. Download Destruqtor 2. OCS-45 OCS-45 is a free cassette emulator. It includes different models of cassettes, wow and flutter settings, as well as noise and distortion. Download…
Carlos Santana postponed a planned show in San Antonio, TX on Tuesday night (April 22) after being rushed to a local hospital. Santana, 77, was booked to play the Majestic Theatre in the Texas town, but reportedly fell ill during soundcheck as a result of dehydration. According to a statement from the venue, manager Michael Vrionis said the singer/guitarist was taken to a San Antonio hospital for observation. “It is with profound disappointment that I have to inform you all that tonight’s show in San Antonio has been postponed,” Vrionis said in a statement. “Mr. Santana was at the venue…
Ferg says that he’s “sending love” to Ye after the Chicago rapper shared a story about an alleged sexual past with his cousin when they were teens.The Harlem artist hopped on X earlier this week and tagged Ye, formerly Kanye West, in a supportive message. “Good for @kanyewest now you can be whole,” he wrote. “When people start to act out you never know the root of the issue! Sending love brother your a goat.” Ye responded with a black heart emoji, suggesting that he’s thankful for Ferg standing by him. In the past few months, the 47-year-old rapper has fired…
Lil Wayne will mark the arrival of Tha Carter VI with his first-ever headlining performance at Madison Square Garden on June 6, the same day the album drops. The New Orleans rapper is tying the release of his long-awaited Tha Carter VI to a major live moment in New York City. The show will serve as both a celebration of the album and a rare opportunity for the crowd to hear new tracks live for the first time. The Tha Carter VI show promises a stacked lineup of guests, including Miley Cyrus, Bono, MGK, Elephant Man, Euro and Wyclef Jean.…
Image Image Credit Astrida Valigorsky / Contributor via Getty Images Image Size landscape-medium Drill has never stayed still for long. Chicago’s Chief Keef was the genre’s obvious starting point, joined alongside the likes of G Herbo, Lil Durk and many more in the 2010s. Over on the East Coast, Bobby Smurda’s “Hot N**ga” gave drill music legs in New York, followed by Pop Smoke, Sleepy Hallow and 22Gz breathing a second life into the sound. At the same time, U.K. artists like Digga D have taken it in a completely different direction, both lyrically and production-wise. Its evolution as a…
Watch Jessy Lanza Break Down “Don’t Leave Me Now” Output Aug 08, 2024 Jessy Lanza dives into her session for “Don’t Leave Me Now” and shows of how the track was made. In this video, Jessy Lanza dives deep into her lead track “Don’t Leave Me Now” and shows off all the layers that went into her “Doofy Bass”, the techniques behind her soft-yet-powerful vocals, how she combines VSTs with analog synths, and her favorite vocal sample in the chorus. Artist and producer Jessy Lanza’s latest album, Love Hallucination marks her first full-length release since moving to Los Angeles, a…
Article Content There’s really nothing like the way a great string arrangement can elevate a recording of a song. Even though I’m a string player, I stand by that last sentence as a statement of objective fact, and not my own (very biased) opinion. Prove me wrong! Sample libraries have provided a way to add strings to productions on even the tightest budgets, but I’m a firm believer that there’s a certain intangible quality that we can only get by bringing real players into a studio — even a modest studio — to make a unique recording. I’m not knocking…
Orpheus Effects, a seemingly new audio developer, has recently released a new room reverb plugin, RoomLite. Best of all, it is free. As the name RoomLite suggests, this plugin is suited for room reverb sounds, specifically “high-quality and realistic emulations of small to medium-sized spaces.” It uses the room algorithm found in its parent plugin, PhiVerb ($50), which includes the Hall, Plate, and Air algorithms as well as the Room algorithm. In fact, the RoomLite installer also gives you access to a 14-day free trial of PhiVerb to see if this plugin is right for you. While RoomLite is a…
After handing off his exclusive gear to him at his Los Angeles’ rehearsals, Mustard was excited to break in his new gear at Coachella, telling us — “Maschine and the Kontrol S49 are powerful tools I’ve always respected—they make it easy to get ideas down fast and add real musicality. I just got my custom MK3 in time for Coachella, so I’m looking forward to breaking it in on stage in front of the hundreds of thousands of people there and watching online!” Mustard delivered a high-energy set that thrilled the massive crowd. Mustard’s groundbreaking performance celebrated his legacy across…
Alright, you’ve got your acoustic guitars tracked, and now it’s time to get down and dirty with the mix. Here’s a guide to get you that professional sound from the comfort of your home studio.Have a Plan for the Role of the Guitar in the MixIs this a solo acoustic guitar track? Is there a singer too? Is the guitar fitting into an overall band sound? You need to know what the guitar is doing in the track before you know how to mix it. If it’s the only instrument, you need a balanced sound that is robust in all…