Elemental Inspector:
A frequency histogram so you can easily see where your soul is peaking and shape it accordingly.
Plugin | Motu
Antares AutoTune 4:
A pitch detector/corrector. Used excessively on virtually all modern vocal and music tracks. Truly the tool of the devil.
Camel Phat 3:
For syncronized filter modulation and corpulent distortion settings.
Crystal Virtual Synth:
For all your whooshy whoosh and clickity click needs.
Antares Filter:
Can impart a synchonized psychedellia to just about anything.
Multimode Filter:
Have a drum pattern modulate vocal ooohs and aaaahs. Trippy.
Masterworks Multiband Compressor:
Awesome for smoothing out bass guitar and for softening the master bus.
Masterworks EQ:
It looks and sounds gorgeous. Used on lead vocals and the master bus.
Masterworks Gate:
Excellent for gating out drum bleed or the rustle of your singer's lyric sheet.
Masterworks Limiter:
Can be used for good and evil. Mostly for evil, though.
Pattern Gate:
Super cool sequenced gate can make long sustaning guitar chords sound like a perfectly synched-up, stuttering robot!
MOTU Preamp:
A guitar amp that almost never gets used on guitars. Sounds great on kick drum and backup vocals.
Ring Modulator:
Only the most adventurous soul can find a spot for the ring modulator, but when it happens it's freakalicious.
Sample Tank 2 Virtual Instrument:
Everything from super-high quality pianos to drum kits to loops and whooshy whoosh. About 48 gigs worth of samples.
Sonic Modulator:
For making breakdowns sound brokedown.
Blockfish:
Small, not very pretty, but super fat. Used on drum room mics and vocals.
Trigger:
Used to convert Audio to MIDI, you can painstakingly make your drummer's shitty kit sound like a Phil Collins production.
Antares Tube:
A tube simulation that gets heavy use on everything, including the master bus.
eVerb:
Super high quality reverb.
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Cheats & Walkthroughs
Tips, tricks, hints, cheats and walk-through's. Some of what I've learned through years of playing, mixing, recording, and wrapping cables.
My advice for bands and live performances can best summed up as:
Do the best you can with what you have. At a minimum,
do no harm. At maximum every consideration should be made for Quality
and Efficiency.
