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The Best Saturation VST Plugins on Plugin Boutique

What are the top plugins for adding analogue warmth, character and drive to a signal in your DAW?   For many years, distortion was the enemy of mix engineers in search of the cleanest possible mix. Imperfect analogue circuitry and limited hardware often led to loss of signal fidelity and waveforms being chopped off abruptly, resulting in harsh, warped sounds. With the advent of digital music production tools, a lot of that character and noise was lost. Today, those “harsh, warped sounds” a

10 Easy-to-Use Plugins for Beginner Producers

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the amount of plugins available to you as a beginner producer, here’s a quick list to help get you started    Starting out in the world of music production can be daunting. You’re venturing into the unknown for the first time, perhaps with no prior knowledge whatsoever, with a bombardment of new information for your brain to soak up. It can be challenging and, if not approached in a fun and engaging way, it can be easy to lose the motivation to keep learnin

What Makes a Good First Plugin Purchase?

If you’re looking to buy your first plugin, you want to make sure it’s a good one. Here’s our advice for what to look for – whatever your reason for taking the plunge   Producers buy plugins. As the internet’s top destination for music software from a range of manufacturers, we can verify that it’s definitely true! Your DAW comes stocked with instruments and effects of its own, and these are usually great, but when it comes time to go beyond the software that every other DAW user has, a

The 11 Types of Reverb – and When to Use Them

Discover the different reverb effects that producers and guitarists use, understand how they work and what they’re good for with this guide   Reverb might be the first effect that many producers come across, with the echoing and god-like sounds being impressive to someone who’s never had this level of sonic control. Perhaps the second lesson a producer will learn with reverb is how to not go too far – avoiding drenching a signal in the stuff. There’s a lot more to learn about reverb aft

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