Software, Plugins and Gear
Plugin Review: Cytomic TheGlue
In my recent binge of plugin purchases, I broke down and bought TheGlue, based almost entirely on the recommendation of Dan Clark (of The Dark Clan and ListlessWorks studio). Like offerings from Waves, UAD and SSL, TheGlue is a compressor that models the famous (infamous?) bus compressor from an SSL G-Series console. Never actually owning [...]
Plugin Review: Airwindows Busscolors2
The first “BussColors” plugin by Airwindows was clever, a little dig at the long-vaporwared Slate Virtual Console (which is now out, of course, but at the time). It lacked features, it was pretty rudimentary, but it was an assertion that virtual console emulation by convolution modeling wasn’t just something for larger software developers to tackle. [...]
Plugin Review: Airwindows ToTape
Airwindows is an eccentric company. It’s basically one guy (Chris Johnson) doing one thing (making specialized AudioUnit plugins) in one esoteric way (he uses a default GUI and never adds any fancy graphics). The way he does things allows him to write plugins that are absurdly cheap, very stable, and well-supported. Of course it also [...]
Plugin Review: McDSP 6030
I am a little bit in love with this compressor. Or should I say “suite of compressors.” The value of McDSP 6030 isn’t in its full-featured-ness as a compressor, it’s in the fact that it’s basically 10 simpler compressors, each with different characteristics, that can be switched seamlessly. There’s everything from a simple one-knob, LA-2A [...]