in the studio – some gear pics

Some impressions from the studio yesterday. There is one device which adds some warmth to the production but can’t be emulated in digital – can you spot it (easy)? Can you spot all brands (hard)?

the compressors sidechain: filtering

There were already an excursion here about the design of compressor transfer curves over here and now this article turns on to the design of the sidechain path of a compressor in general. One major part of the sidechain design of a compressor is the filtering and thats the topic here for now.

introducing ‘NastyXTC’

NaxtyXTC: the Xciting Transient Controller

I’m going to introduce NastyXTC here for you, the ‘Xciting Transient Controller’ which is currently in beta.

new download tab

page tabs

There is a new download tab now at the top of the page and the sticky download post is removed from the front page  (but still in the archive and contains a redirect now). Use this if you are looking for updates, release info and download locations.

‘BootEQ mkII’ released

As of now the “BootEQ mkII” musical EQ and pre-amp simulator is released under freeware license and a copy is ready to download for you. Release info and download locations are maintained in the sticky “latest versions / downloads” post. Please read and accept the enduser license agreement before downloading and installing.

Requirements: SSE compatible PC, VST host running at 44,1 or 48kHz samplerate.

Download here.

‘BootEQ mkII’ – LF shaping

BootEQ mkII - new LF controls

If you were a user of the very first BootEQ equalizer VST plug-in then you know about it’s limitations in the low frequency department: LF adjustment is limited to a +/-12dB gain control plus a HP switch at 40/60Hz. This is now reworked in BootEQ mkII which offers some new and probably surprisingly versatile (but still easy to use) control over the entire lower frequency region.

‘BootEQ mkII’ – preview and release info

BootEQ mkII

The release of the successor of the BootEQ equalizer plug-in is not that far away anymore and you will find the final spec and release info here (as well as a screenshot).

what I’m currently working on – Vol. 1

Of course, this is going to be the successor of the BootEQ VST Plug-In, famous for those musical sounding EQ curves, but …

BootEQ and samplerate support

As you may have noticed, the BootEQ equalizer Plug-In has been initially released with limited support to 44.1kHz samplerate only. There were many questions and requests lately if 48kHz is also safe to use with BootEQ and so I finally did some measurements on that.

Having done that I can fortunately and without any concern recommend to use

latest versions / downloads

If you are looking for the download locations to the latest versions of my audio fx plug-ins please use the ‘Download’ tab at the top of the page or just click here.

If you want to link to any of my Plug-Ins downloads then please link to http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/ and do not deep-link to any specific download location since they change from time to time.