Stillwell Audio Plugins

Only just came across these this week while I was finishing a remix, and they really made a huge difference to the finished track. I haven't had a chance to test every one of them out (there's quite a few available) but thought I'd give peoples a heads up. I'm thinking maybe Mr Dan F might get a bit more geeky than I can over these?



My favourites so far are their "The Rocket" Compressor, and the "Transient Monster" which is invaluable for tightening up drums, breakbeats especially. I guess some might call me a lazy producer, but I like to consider myself someone that likes getting instant results rather than having to sit and tweak stuff for hours. These plugins give me exactly that, with a large range or presets available to cover many scenarios and styles, as well as being very easy to use anyway.


Other plugins available include:

1973 - a tribute to the Neve 1073
Bad Buss Mojo - a virtual mix buss amplifier
Event Horizon - described as a "peak-eating limiter"
Major Tom - very easy to use compressor
Verbiage - algorithmic reverb
Vibe-EQ - unique sounding EQ

Fully functioning free trial downloads are available in both Mac VST and AU, as well as Windows VST, and if you decide to buy them each plugin is very reasonably priced from around $39-$49.

Well worth checking out!

http://www.stillwellaudio.com/

Oh, and the remix in question that I mentioned earlier is my new remix of ID's "Mission" for Re:Connect, which you can hear clips of on my Myspace page, and on my website too.

http://www.myspace.com/higheight
http://www.higheight.com

New headphones - we can all learn from this

I have been trying to decide what headphones to get as a reference for mixing. After chatting to the ever knowing audiophile J Hazen about it, I headed to the biggest local store to get some hands on experience. After going back and forth between a selection of 8 pairs, I narrowed it down to 3 pairs and then I pretty much decided on what cans to get and just wanted to check them with what they were demoing monitors on. I figured that if the iTunes library was good enough to check monitors, then it would be good enough for my headphones. I started off with the Prodigy and there was hardly any bottom end. No real high en either. How very strange... I checked another track and there was a bit more bottom end in that, but nothing that stod out. Now keep in mind Hazen recommended these particular cans for their sub capability, and checking Sound of Habib masters and other reference stuff on the shitty portable CD player that was hooked up to the headphone stand mixer was a real treat on the ears as the sub was nice and warm. Odd. I checked "The robots" by Kraftwerk and there was sub and even a very evident 70s high end hiss. So back to the Prodge again... as I remember the "Fat of the Land" album, it's bottom heavy... but still nothing. I right clicked the file, "get info" and yes... it was a 128kbps mp3. I right clicked the Kraftwerk file and that was a wav. Needless to say, these are great headphones and the people demoing monitors with 128k mp3s are probably not selling that many.

Beyerdynamic DT770 pro - not so great for listening to shitty mp3s.