6/25/2023 0 Comments Soundhack pitchshift![]() One of the great things about Bass Drive, in common with many others in the suite, is that the sliders seem to have a very extended range. ![]() I used this a lot on synth bass sounds for the new Senser album I was working on with producer Neil Mclellan. Used in conjunction with the free CabSVT, this is an amazing pair of plug-ins to make a DI'ed bass really come alive. It's like having a really versatile bass DI box that you can tweak after the recording. There are three bands of overlapping EQ which can go into overdrive for some I had tried various mix-bus compressors on the mix, made up of little folky instruments with short sustain, as well as running it to tape and back, but in the end Logical gave me just what I was after-a more up front and coherent sound.īass Drive is one of many tone-shapers that are available from Airwindows. I actually found Logical most useful as a mix-bus effect on a very-small-scale track that needed some more life injected into it. The Personality slider, in simplistic terms, behaves like a tone control, and adds more or less of the SSL-type character to the sound-very useful indeed. I have not sat behind an SSL for long enough to comment on how accurately it does this, but to my ears, using Logical across a drum mix or on the stereo bus makes the sound more engaging and exciting. Logical is a plug-in that simulates the tone characteristics of an SSL console. It's great for squished room sounds as well as drum stem duties. You can get a really good variety of drive/compression effects from Drum Slam just with these three sliders. So I emailed Chris and a little later found a new version in my inbox with said fader-amazing. My only reservation about Drum Slam was the lack of a dry/wet slider to do parallel processing. It certainly adds crunch and does a very cool thing with the transients in that you can drive it really hard and still have a nice pokey transient coming through. I have been using it on drum overheads and also on snare drums to great effect. Drum Slam is a sort of tape drive simulator like Massey's Tape-Head but more extreme and more of a character sound in its own right. In the compression and tone-shaping department, there are Drum Slam, Logical, and Bass Drive. There are a huge number available from Airwindows, but I'm concentrating on just a few in this review. Looking-much like the Apple AU plug-ins that come with Logic. Chris Johnson's Airwindows plug-ins are very functional In an age where a lot of plug-ins look better than they sound, it's refreshing to find a suite where the designer has put more effort into what the plug-ins actually do rather than how many scuff marks there are on the photo-real facias. ![]() Let's start with Matt's take and finish with Walt's. Not only has he written many gear reviews and conducted numerous interviews for the magazine, he's also a studio owner and an accomplished composer with hundreds of TV, video game, and film credits. Walt Szalva is a long-time contributor to Tape Op. He's also scored, performed, conducted, and mixed music for award-winning TV spots for Audi, Hewlett-Packard, and Mercedes. He recently completed some arrangement and Pro Tooling with Rosie Danvers for the Kanye West live show, helped out Bjo^rk with the brass arrangements for her Volta tour, and finished additional programming on the film Hot Fuzz for David Arnold and Michael Price. First-time Tape Op contributor Matt Robertson is an amazing composer, producer, and engineer based in the UK. I asked a couple of Logic hotshots to give some of the Airwindows plug-ins a go and get back to me with comments for this review. Unfortunately, only AU format is supported. Also, all of these plug-ins are priced such that even the most meager project studio can afford a useful collection of them, and some of his plug-ins are even free. In any case, I was first drawn to his Airwindows plug-ins because they offer a vast range of capabilities, and their straightforward GUIs reflect the functionally focused and CPU-conservative design goals that are common across the line. By night, he's an audio plug-in designer. By day, Chris Johnson is a mastering engineer.
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