Monday, September 29, 2008

Free plug-in: Rough Rider vintage compressor


I usually discuss the freeware audio plug-ins on my All Sounds Considered blog, dedicated to electronic and bent music, but it occurs to me that an important part of songwriting is making demos and finished tracks that sound interesting and distinct, and a big part of that is production, instrumentation and timbre. Listening to tracks by artists as diverse as Gomez, Iron & Wine, Dr. Dog, Radiohead, Peter Bradley Adams, or The Weepies - I'm always struck by the command they have of an array of interesting sounds. So, if you're feeling a bit stuck with the same old sounds, by all means try some interesting recording and instrument techniques first (more on that later, I promise), but it never hurts to fool around with these plug-ins and try to see how you can alter your dry sounds...

So the pick of this week is the Rough Rider plug-in from AudioDamage. Try it on your drum submix and feel free to generally experiment, it is, after all, free (and not all of us can afford a Distressor...)

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