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7 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
Transport Vintage Tape — Not a Tape Emulator, But a Controlled Saturation Engine The release of Transport Vintage Tape by Iconic Instruments doesn’t follow the traditional tape plugin formula. It doesn’t aim to recreate a specific machine. It doesn’t focus on analog nostalgia. Instead, it redefines what a tape-style processor can be inside a modern […]
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7 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
New York is one of the few cities where polished label-level studio productions exist side by side with raw live recordings, fast demo drops, and beat-based singles released between shows. From Brooklyn home studios to Manhattan session rooms and live multitrack captures from clubs across the city, tracks come together in very different ways — […]
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7 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
XLN Audio DB-30 Drum Butter — a faster way to shape drums without breaking your mix Modern drum processing is overloaded. Producers stack EQs, compressors, saturators, transient shapers, and limiters — and end up fighting their own signal chain. DB-30 Drum Butter by XLN Audio is built to solve that exact issue: not by adding […]
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6 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
Harrison LiveTrax 3 — A Smarter Approach to Live Recording and Virtual Soundcheck Live recording has always been a compromise. Even with high-end consoles and experienced engineers, the reality is simple: what happens on stage rarely translates cleanly into a multitrack session. The weak point isn’t the gear — it’s the workflow. Harrison LiveTrax 3 […]
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5 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
Accentize dxSplit Review: Rebuilding Dialogue Instead of Just Cleaning It There’s a hard truth in audio post: once dialogue is compromised, most tools can only make it “less bad.” They reduce noise, soften problems, and hope artifacts stay hidden. That’s been the standard for years. Accentize dxSplit flips that model. Instead of suppressing unwanted elements, […]
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4 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
Music Analytics for Artists: What Actually Drives Growth (Not Just Streams) Most artists misunderstand music analytics. They track streams, celebrate spikes, and panic when numbers drop — without ever understanding what caused those changes. The reality is simple: streams are a result, not a strategy. If you don’t know where they come from, you can’t […]
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4 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
Acustica Audio Ruby 3 Review — Tube EQ Modeling That Actually Behaves Like Hardware In a market saturated with “analog-style” plugins, very few tools genuinely replicate the behavior of real hardware. Acustica Audio’s Ruby 3 stands apart because it doesn’t just emulate frequency curves — it models the entire signal path of a tube equalizer, […]
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4 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
Overloud Gem Comp160 Review — A Modern dbx 160 Emulation Built for Real Mixing Workflows Overloud has expanded its Gem Series with the release of Gem Comp160, a detailed emulation of one of the most iconic VCA compressors ever built — the dbx 160. But instead of recreating a single unit, this plug-in models three […]
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4 April , 2026 | Mixing and mastering
Acustica Pearl 3 — A High-End Analog Emulation Built for Modern Mixing and Mastering The release of Acustica Pearl 3 marks a significant shift from a niche, limited-run plugin into a fully integrated professional tool designed for high-end mixing and mastering workflows. What began over a decade ago as a rare software recreation has now […]
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