SpacedOut is the ‘aliased MySpace monitoring’ section of the plugin SpaceOdyssey. This was a 2008 plugin designed to help people monitor what the MySpace audio player was going to do to their sound. At the time, MySpace was a big deal for bands and musicians, but if you uploaded music to it, your music would be […]
DrumSlam is an emulation, but not of hardware. It’s a riff on the sound of Massey’s TapeHead. Because why not? Well, the reason why not is mostly this: that’s not my favorite sound, so it’s not such a great idea. I heard a midrange drive, a sort of treble air that comes in, and low frequency […]
Chrome Oxide was an alternate technique to go for ‘tape grunge’, originally sold as a separate plugin. It worked like this: it threw in a random noise, but instead of just overlaying the noise onto the sound, it used the noise to interpolate between the current and previous sample. What that did was noise up the […]
ADT was one of the first Airwindows plugins. It uses two adjustable delay taps, which you can mix either in-phase or out of phase, to sculpt the sound. The idea is, you can get a lusher sound through the very quick delay while also positioning the times so that they give you reinforcements and cancellations […]
