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10 Reasons Why High Quality Audio Cassette Tapes Can Sound Muddy or Dull
In some cases, an audio cassette is expected to sound dull, muddy or woolly. Some tapes were manufactured to a very low budget, with an un...
The Seductress and The Clonewheel VXH - Free Tonewheel Organ VST Plugin Downloads
Planet Botch VST tonewheel/clonewheel emulators are a bit like buses. You wait eight years and then three come along at once. Yes, hot on ...
Clonewheel VXK Download: Free VST Plugin for Early 1980s Organ Sounds
The Clonewheel VXK. Unbeatable simulation of that early 1980s analogue clonewheel sound. If you remember seeing a live Squeeze performance...
The Vintage Ultima: Super-Versatile Freeware VST Organ/Synth Plugin
Inspired by some of the most sophisticated analogue combo organs and synth-organs of the 1970s, The Vintage Ultima is a freeware VSTi pack...
The Undercult : VST Organ Freeware Plugin for Indie, Mod, Soul & Ska
The Undercult is a VST organ model inspired by the Vox Continental Super II . It’s the first in a series of FREE public releases from a fo...
Analogue Marvels: The Home Organ
Above: an image of the very beautiful Yamaha E45 - an ultimate home organ from the analogue era. In 1980, what would it have cost to equ...
25 Pro Rules You Should Checklist For Studio Recording
Recording and mixing a musical composition is often underestimated as a task, with the emphasis placed on the musicians rather than the re...
The Rise of the Guitar Effects Rack
Watch an old live rock performance from the 1970s, and in the backline you’ll see amps. Just amps; no effects. Right up until the end of t...
Should Audio Tape Be Your Studio's Next Upgrade?
“Am I really doing this?” , I asked myself, as I swiftly unplugged and gathered up jack leads, then set about packing away the tower compu...
The Ensembletron String Synth Freeware VSTi
Planet Botch’s new Ensembletron VSTi serves only one purpose, but it serves that purpose extremely well, in an eminently user-friendly man...
Guitar Speaker Simulations Audio Test
I thought this quick addendum would make a useful follow-up to my previous post, which explored the formative years of direct injection in...
Direct Injection for Electric Guitars - The Formative Years
Direct injection (very frequently abbreviated to DI) is the apparently simple practice of sending the output of an electric or electronic...
Classic Zoom Guitar and Studio Effects of the Early 1990s
Despite the love/hate reaction that Zoom effects tended to provoke when they stormed the market from the start of the 1990s, I think they’...
The Korg 05R/W - Review and Retrospective
Cunningly promoted in its 1993 release year as “The Korg Disguise Kit For Other Keyboards” , the 05R/W synthesizer module was unleashed u...
Guitar Processor Patch Programming Secrets (Boss ME-5)
The Boss ME-5 was a superb quality, pioneering guitar FX unit, with a very simple layout and, chiefly, analogue processing. It incorporat...
The Chorus Effect: Everything You Need To Know
Chorus. What is it? Where did it come from? And how does a musician make the best of it? The chorus effect progressed from being complete...
Using Overdrive/Distortion with Organ and Keyboard Sounds
If you’re a guitarist, chances are you’ve been bombarded with advice on how to work with overdrive. But if you want an overdriven organ s...
Death By Digital: How Technology Killed Music
The electric guitar has been one stronghold of pre-digital technology which refuses to die. Just as video killed the radio star, digital ...
Shadow MIDI Guitar Synthesis in the 1980s
Reflex Reds Guitar Pickups In Retrospect
Whilst trawling through the obscurities of the 1980s the other day, I was reminded of another long-forgotten facet of the period’s UK rock g...
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