TL:DW; Grit and punch without fatness. HighImpact Sometimes it’s all in the name. High Impact has been one of the Airwindows secret weapons for a long time. It’s a pretty basic idea: know how Density distorts and makes audio huge and fat, and Drive distorts and doesn’t make stuff as fat? High Impact answers the […]
TL:DW; Wobbly and weird! Melt As useful as utility plugins are, sometimes you just have to do something wobbly and weird. Here’s Melt! To explain what it’s doing will be a little tricky. You can just download it and play with it, but if you want to know what’s under the hood, here goes. Suppose […]
I HAVE CONSTRUCTED A MAGNETO-DYNAMIC INFUNDIBULATOR *ahem!* No, seriously, I have! Watch the video and you can construct one too! You’ll need an XLR cable, a transformer (like a 600 ohm telephone transformer with three windings), some little diodes like stompboxes use for clipping, and a teeny capacitor. Two of everything, for stereo. You’ll want […]
TL:DW; Fluctuating saturation curves for a tubey tremolo. Tremolo So, you’ve probably got a tremolo built in to your DAW. But, if you’ve heard tremolo effects off classic records, it’s a whole different animal. DAW tremolos are neat little volume animations, capable of many cool effects (try making ’em squarewaves synced to the tempo for […]
