Plug-ins

With its combination of creative and corrective tools, HitStrip puts all the channel processing you’ll ever need in one intuitive window.

We check out this budget‑friendly tape delay that aims to stay out of the way!

Fancy some modulation from the Dark Side? The enticingly‑named Wobbler plug‑in was inspired by some of the effects that producer/engineer Alan Parsons used on Dark Side Of The Moon.

Relab are the latest to offer a plug-in emulation of the TC System 6000 reverb.

Space Rider offers delay, reverb and chorus, but also takes the concept of ducking and expands it to full parameter modulation.

Denise Audio claim their Perfect Room 2 takes a new approach to algorithmic reverb, with the aim of delivering a natural, transparent character.

If the classic side‑chain pumping effect is your thing, Submerge can do that — and a whole lot more!

One of the most influential plug‑ins of our time receives an impressive makeover.

Can the improved, AI‑based Mix Assistant make iZotope’s already powerful collection of mixing plug‑ins more useful?

There are quite a few plug‑ins that emulate the famous Fairchild 660 and 670 compressors, but KIT Plugins have based theirs on specific units in John McBride’s Blackbird Studios in Nashville.

JMG’s DarkFire is a harmonic enhancer plug-in whose added harmonics can be shaped by a three‑band EQ to put them precisely where you want them.

The puntastic name and the faders on the GUI of Poseidon leave you in little doubt as to which famous console EQ it sets out to emulate...

If you do much work with surround or immersive formats, upmixing and downmixing are a fact of life. With Penteo, good results needn’t cost the Earth.

Love it or hate it, pitch‑correction is here to stay — but there can be way more to it than fixing performance issues.

Biverb is a dual reverb plug‑in that supports all the usual plug‑in formats on macOS and Windows platforms.

If you’ve never heard of the Datamix console, that wouldn’t surprise me — relatively few were made — but...

V‑Rack packs the Rhodes MK8 preamp and effects section into a plug‑in.

Eight years on from its groundbreaking release, what’s new in Slate Digital’s Virtual Microphone System?

STL Tones bring the sound of Limp Bizkit’s unique guitarist to your DAW.

It might get filed under the general category of reverb, but ModeAudio’s Airspace could more accurately be described as a sound‑design tool.

Curves Equator is a ‘smart’ dynamic equaliser plug‑in that tracks and attenuates resonances dynamically to achieve a more balanced sound that sits comfortably in a mix.