Links update: 16/08/2019

This week we proudly welcome back Canadian house virtuoso Soundprank for another in-depth course in How To Make French House.
From the processing of the drums to creating your own Daft Punk style samples, this course has it all - and after watching, you'll be creating your very own French House groove!

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Links update: 19/05/2017

Cubase master Paul Ortiz reveals the new Cubase 9 Sampler Track in all its glory, covering all the nuts and bolts, as well as how to use it creatively!

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Links update: 12/07/2019

Studio super genius Dave Askew breaks down the things you need to know for a solid foundational understanding of room acoustics, and how to set up your studio for better sound and mixes!

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Groove3 Logic Pro X Know-How Bass Amp Designer TUTORiAL



SYNTHiC4TE | Dec 30 2016 | 290 MB

Logic expert Doug Zangar has the low end covered in this series about Bass Amp Designer in Logic Pro X. Learn about how to use, manage and get creative with the endless tonal options available in this killer amp simulator!

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Links update: 11/03/2021

The 1970s rock scene was one of diversity and constant reinvention. On one end of the scale, bands like Led Zeppelin and The Who not only paved way for a new breed of loud, beat-driven rock – but also revitalized the drum hero of the jazz age and introduced a never-before-heard sonic ideal of big, massively saturated drums. On the opposite end, acts like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac took on a noticeably more polished production suit. Still, both sounds were very much products attributed to the advances of recording technology. The Seventies Rock EZX sets out to capture that scope – from the farthest end of epic, earth-shattering and reverberant down to classic, dampened and low-key.

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Links update: 14/03/2020

Fueled by acts like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, a new breed of rock burst onto the scene in the late sixties. With a big, thunderous sound, often with the drums as the barreling force in the front of the mix, the classic acts of this era didn’t only strike a chord that would resonate to this day – they shook the ground and started a landslide of heavy music to come.It’s from this legacy that the Big Rock Drums EZX picks up. Helmed by Rival Sons’ drummer Michael Miley and Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Cobb (Rival Sons, Europe, Zac Brown Band), it sets out to capture the raw essence of classic rock drums as we know them. Recorded at Cobb’s own Low Country Sound Studio in Nashville, it presents five essentially different kits that still share one common denominator – they’re the massive, reverberant and roaring type, tailored for big rock songs.

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Links update: 29/01/2018

DIVA - Dinosaur Impersonating Virtual Analogue Synthesizer

The oscillators, filters and envelopes closely model components found in some of the great monophonic and polyphonic synthesizers of yesteryear. Modules can be mixed and matched so you can build hybrids, but what sets DIVA apart is the sheer authenticity of the analogue sound. This comes at the cost of quite a high CPU-hit, but we think it was worth it: Diva is the first native software synth that applies methods from industrial circuit simulators (e.g. PSpice) in realtime. The behaviour of zero-delay-feedback filters when pushed to the limit clearly demonstrates the advantages of this groundbreaking approach.

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Links update: 18/01/2020

The Traditional Country EZX comes with a stellar collection of drums recorded at the Quonset Hut Studio, the first-ever recording studio on the now world-famous Music Row in Nashville, TN. The first incarnation was opened to the public in 1955 before it was ultimately sold to Columbia and operated under the name of Columbia Studio B until it closed in 1982. Today, it serves as a recording classroom for the Belmont University.

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Links update: 19/08/2017

If you ask a group of mix engineers what they would keep if they were forced to strip their rigs down to a minimum, a solid source for ambience would likely be at the top of most people’s lists. Reverb is a key ingredient in any great mix, regardless if it’s an epic ballad or a thunderous metal track. It adds that subtle air, breathing room and has the power to elevate even the most mundane of material. Try it – mute all your ambience sources in a mix and you’ll see. With that in mind, getting real rooms and reverbs takes it to a whole new level.

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Links update: 13/01/2018

The fourth title in the Metal Guitar Gods series presents 50 unique amp and cab settings modeled directly after the personal tones of four top metal players: Gus G (Ozzy Osbourne, Firewind), Jake Pitts (Black Veil Brides), Wes Hauch (Black Crown Initiate) and Michael Keene (The Faceless).

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Links update: 11/05/2017

Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach), Evan Brewer (Entheos), Josh Paul (ex-Suicidal Tendencies) and Ryan Martinie (Mudvayne). Four top players from completely different ends of the scene deliver a collection of bass tones showcasing an incredible width. From tube-sizzling heavy rock tones and loud, distorted hi-gain metal settings to the complexly textured, mellow and organic.

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Links update: 05/06/2019

Having shaped the sound of acts like Whitechapel, DevilDriver, Trivium and Coal Chamber, Mark Lewis has risen to become one of the top names in modern metal production. One of his signature traits, always a given in any production bearing the Lewis sonic seal, is the wall of guitars – deafening, yet defined, balanced and distinguishable.

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Links update: 21/09/2018

Modern sound design and mixing contemporary music often revolves around using vintage sound ideals and elements – tube sizzle, grit, distortion, vinyl noise. It’s an uprising against the digital revolution and an attempt to sand the surface off of what sometimes can come out too polished. This is where this collection of settings for EZmix 2 comes in – but with a twist. It goes beyond the obvious tape saturation settings, the compressors or the tube amps and rather focuses on the details – creative ingredients that can elevate your mix and lend you completely new ideas and landscapes of sound. Maybe a broken phone line setting on a vocal part, some vinyl noise on your intro or a bit crushed bass to spice things up?

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Links update: 18/05/2023

Showcasing an incredible width, this collection gives you lead, rhythm, clean and various effect-saturated settings spanning genres like metal, rock, jazz, fusion and blues – all directly modeled and EQ-matched from the personal tones of five of the world’s greatest guitar players: Jack Thammarat, Marco Sfogli, Josh Smith, Martin Miller and Tom Quayle.

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Links update: 19/08/2017

Since graduating from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2000, Forrester Savell has worked out of the famous NRG Studios in Los Angeles, engineered and co-produced alongside some of the top names on the west coast, relocated back to Australia and landed himself two Producer of the Year ARIA Award nominations, three gold certified albums and several high profile projects.

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Links update: 19/08/2017

The Country Guitars EZmix Pack presents a diverse collection of settings for all walks of vintage and modern electric country guitar. It comes with 50 unique, mix-ready tones based on amp/cab simulation and various chains of effects. In this pack, you get a wide array of tones covering anything from clean, up-close and intimate to dirty, mean and big – all designed to capture the broadest possible definition of electric country guitar.

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Links update: 19/09/2018

Some guitarists hit notes thirty, or even forty, years ago that seem to resonate just as vividly now as back then. We’re talking about the icons – the flag bearers of the big guitar tones that changed the fabric of rock and whose legacy to this day keep trickling down to new generations of players across the globe.

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Links update: 13/07/2017

The Ambient EZmix Pack is a collection of settings specifically aimed at creating large, reverberant soundscapes. A creative toolbox, perfect for use in atmospheric compositions spanning anything from motion picture scores to modern pop and a wide array of other musical contexts.

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