Analogue Emulation Plugins: A Buyer’s Guide for Mixing with Character

These VSTs are some of the top choices to turn your DAW from a cold, sterile piece of software into a warm, colourful, lived-in studio setup Music software has come a long way, and while we used to use technology to remove imperfections and small problems in the real-world studio, today we actively use it to put these things back into our music. The number of analogue emulating plugins that are out there is truly astounding, with each one doing a slightly different thing on your mix channe

Recreating a Classic Analogue Mix Chain with Plugins

Digital audio production is the modern standard, yet it lacks the colour and life of classic analogue hardware. Learn how to breathe life into your mix bus As music production has overwhelmingly shifted to the digital domain over the last few decades, producers and artists now face the reality that working purely in the box often creates cold, dry, harsh, and lifeless recordings. That’s why many producers are turning to analogue-simulating software to breathe life and warmth of classic hardwa