These plug‑ins are all about warmth and distortion, and the flavours on offer range from gentle saturation at the subtler end of the scale through to crunching overload and squelchy obliteration.
Available through United Plugins, FireEQ combines several EQ methodologies with a view to making mixing and mastering flexible but without adding too much complexity.
With an array of different modelled devices and controls you won’t find on the original hardware, have Pulsar breathed new life into the humble spring reverb?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Supporting all the main plug‑in formats, Bloom Aether Vocal is based on samples of short vocal phrases, both male and female, that can be manipulated in creative ways.
KIT Plugins’ latest collaboration with Nashville’s legendary Blackbird Studio has just arrived, and becomes the first of the company’s offerings to utilise AI technology
Aims to emulate almost any hardware VCA compressor
The new bx_glue plug-in from Brainworx combines the sounds of classic British VCA compressors with some more modern functionality and multi-band processing capabilities.
Wes Audio have announced the launch of a new control plug-in for the ngBusComp that sports a sleek new user interface and also introduces some improved functionality.
Available to a limited number of users now with a full launch planned later in 2024, NI 360 will offer subscription-based access to products from Native Instruments, iZotope and Brainworx.
Along with a new harmonic enhancer plug-in, the Korneff Audio range has also gained a Waves L1-inspired limiter and a recreation of a consumer effects processor that became popular for guitar processing.