Waves today introduced their new MetaFilter sound shaping plug-in. MetaFilter is designed around a multimode filter with extensive modulation options that are powered by Waves’ Virtual Voltage technology. According to Waves this creative effects plug-in provides warmth, depth and fatness of classic analog filters. You can individually modulate each filter’s cutoff, resonance and delay time […]

Here’s one I haven’t seen before. LSR Audio has a great looking FET compressor plugin modelled after the Classic analog API 525 compressor. The best part (for me and all other Pro Tools 11 users) is that next to AU, VST and RTAS the plugin is also available in AAX 64-bit for both Mac OS […]

Mixing possibilities with the plugins of today are almost endless. Plenty of high quality plugins can be acquired for a very low price and sometimes even completely free. Still, many high end studios and producers often choose expensive hardware gear over plugins. Why is that? Analog hardware contains nonlinear electronic components like transformers, transistors and […]