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Top 5 Friday | Delay and Echo Plugins

Top 5 Friday - Delay and Echo Plugins  In this week's Top 5 Friday, producer Tim Cant explores five of the most popular delay plugins available on Plugin Boutique. They are...   5. SphereDelay (WA Production) This one’s a solid, four-mode delay that’s easy to reach for and won’t hurt your budget, coming in at £45 RRP. Those four modes – Mono, Stereo, and two Ping Pong varieties – give you plenty of starting points to build a delay sound quickly and simply. Next, you can cr

Plugin Boutique Staff Picks Archive

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Nine of The Most Unusual Plugins on Plugin Boutique

Find out what strange creations lurk in the depths of the Plugin Boutique archives Plugins come in all shapes and sizes, and all of the main types you can think of are available in the Plugin Boutique library; EQs, Compressors, Reverbs, Delays, Synths, Drum Machines, - you name it, we have it! These categories are the bread and butter, the meat and potatoes of the music software realm, and within them, you’ll find both entry-level and high-end tools for all your mixing and mastering, soun

Best Distortion & Saturation VST Plugins

Use these waveform warpers to gently chisel some life into your sounds, or hit them with a sledgehammer. 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 a 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, meaning producers these days are

The Plugin Boutique Awards 2024: Winners and Highly Commended

For the third year running, your votes have crowned the champions and runners-up across 14 categories in music software   With 2024 receding into the past, and a fresh calendar year unfurling ahead of us like a new rug, it's time to turn our attention towards a carpet of a different kind; a red one, to be precise. That’s right, it’s awards season, that time where we take a beat and honour the plugins that proved themselves to be a hit with producers and best in class according to your vote

Essential VST Plugins for Guitarists

Axe-wielders and six string-shredders have some unique options in the software realm. Nowadays, the digital world offers a multitude of options for enhancing and supplementing your guitar playing, from authentic amp simulations to deep-sampled virtual instruments. With just a handful of plugins you can transform your DAW into a high-end studio complete with an eye-watering array of guitar tones and effects from legendary hardware units. Whether you’re a rock god or a complete beginner,

8 Kontakt Developers you Need to Check Out Today

These instrument creators represent a world of sample-based sound generation that’s also available on Plugin Boutique On the Plugin Boutique website you’ll find far more than just plugins – alongside synth presets and sample packs, you’ll also find Kontakt instruments. Kontakt gives you the power of any physical instrument right in your DAW. From expertly recorded and curated orchestral libraries to more experimental and unorthodox offerings. In this article, we’ve gathered together eig

Universal Audio Buyer’s Guide: Which Classic is Which?

Don’t know your 2500 from your 1176? Read on to find out about 11 classic pieces of production hardware, now available as a native UAD plugin. Earlier this year, the team over at Universal Audio decided it was time to give the people what they’d been asking for. Seemingly out of the blue, they made some of their most renowned and cutting-edge digital plugins native-compatible, meaning they can run without the need of UA’s DSP-powered hardware interfaces and satellites. This release gives an a

8 Kontakt Developers you Need to Check Out Today

These instrument creators represent a world of sample-based sound generation that’s also available on Plugin Boutique On the Plugin Boutique website you’ll find far more than just plugins – alongside synth presets and sample packs, you’ll also find Kontakt instruments. Kontakt gives you the power of any physical instrument right in your DAW. From expertly recorded and curated orchestral libraries to more experimental and unorthodox offerings. In this article, we’ve gathered together eig

Mastering: What Plugins Do I Need?

The “dark art of mastering” is a practice that takes years to perfect. Even the most seasoned of mastering engineers are still honing their skills, in what is often regarded to be the final stage of quality control during a song’s conception. If the mastering process isn’t discombobulating enough as it is, there are a torrent of new mastering tools released every week that promise to make the process quicker and easier than ever before. In this article, we identify some of the core tools you’

Buyer’s Guide: Which Synth is Right for You?

In this buyer’s guide, we’ve collected some of our favourite software synthesisers across a variety of categories. We’ve looked for synths for modular nuts, those on a budget, producers looking for an authentic analogue sound, and much more. Of course, what’s classed as the “best” in any given category is subjective, so in a lot of categories we’ve provided alternative options so you can try out a few different options and work out which is best for you. Read on to learn about a wide range

The Best EQ Plugins For Every Budget

Command your frequency spectrum with whatever your wallet will allow – here are the best options in every budget category   EQ plugins are essential in modern music production, and luckily for you, you’ve almost certainly got at least one in your DAW. But there’s only so much that many ‘stock’ plugins can achieve beyond simple frequency sculpting. When you’re ready to trade up, there are many options to consider in the world of EQ plugins. In this guide, we’ll outline some solid choic

What Are VST Plugins and What Are They Used for?

Learn what a VST is with Plugin Boutique including what VST stands for, the different types of VST plugins, their different uses, benefits, and more   Maybe you’re new to music production and are trying to make head or tails of the tools you need and how to use them, or maybe you’ve used a few VST plugins in your time but are shooting in the dark when it comes to understanding the tech behind them. Either way, this article will help you to understand what a VST plugin is and what they’re u

Best Chorus Plugins Guide: Create Sounds That Resonate

Discover the tools you should use to create big, sweeping chorus sounds In hardware form, the chorus effect has been around since the 1970s, with one of the first commercially available chorus devices being the Boss CE-1 Pedal, which was based on the chorus effect in the JC-120 Jazz Amplifier. The following decade, the first digital choruses made it onto the market. Now, there is a chorus effect for every scenario, whether that’s analogue, digital or in plugin form. Choruses can be cat

6 of the Best Sampler Plugins for Music Production

Uncover six of the most powerful and capable sampler plugins available today   Sampling is arguably one of the most important and widely used music production processes in contemporary music. Since its initial conception around 60 years ago, sampling has had and continues to have one of the most profound influences on a wide range of musical styles. While the foundation of sampling is grounded in hardware samplers such as the Mellotron, the software sampler market continues to grow. A