SIR Audio Tools Plugin Bundle Win [Latest]
Danielle Just
Unlock the full potential of your tracks with Music Production Suite 6. Featuring the latest releases of Ozone 11, Nectar 4, and Guitar Rig 7 Pro, this comprehensive suite offers industry-leading tools for mixing, mastering, vocal processing, a wide range of effects, and much more. Elevate your sound and streamline your workflow with Music Production Suite 6.
iZotope RX is the industry trailblazer for intelligent audio repair and enhancement. Infused with state-of-the-art machine learning technology, RX 11 adds new tools and improves beloved modules to help you tackle everything from common audio problems to the trickiest of sonic rescues, for music, post production, and content creation.
Elevate your music with Ozone 11, the definitive mastering toolkit. Enhance the clarity and definition of your masters with the Clarity module. Make precise tweaks with Stem Focus, and unlock creative possibilities with Transient/Sustain. Achieve a detailed and dynamic sound with Upward Compress, and ensure your vocals sit perfectly in the mix with Assistive Vocal Balance. Experience these enhancements and more with Ozone 11.
Experience the power of Nectar 4, the ultimate vocal mixing tool. Explore new Modules like Auto-Level for consistency, Voices for effortless vocal layering, Backer for artificial background singers, and Vocal Assistant for intelligent processing. Unleash a suite of powerful plugins for complete control over your vocal sound.
Step into Guitar Rig 7 Pro, a portable room filled with sought-after guitar and bass amps, effects, and pedals. Experience real-time inspiration with authentic amp models and creative effects. Create distinct tones and unlock endless possibilities with new ICM amps, virtual effects pedals, and rack components.
Amplify the power of your suite with six creative mixing plugins from Brainworx. Explore bx_delay 2500 for innovative delay, bx_boom! for big kick drums, bx_saturator V2 to add multi-band saturation, bx_subsynth for holy grail bass fanatics, bx_cleansweep Pro to clean up sounds, and bx_refinement to tame harshness.
Craft the perfect listening experience with Ozone 11, the ultimate mastering plugin. Explore new and improved features that deliver AI-powered workflows and professional processing for your productions.
Learn about new products and features in Music Production Suite 6, the ultimate audio mixing and mastering suite used by top studios worldwide. Discover the AI-powered processing that listens to your audio and suggests settings for your whole mix.
Introducing Nectar 4, a powerful vocal mixing and production tool to achieve professional-quality vocals effortlessly. Take a look at all of the new and improved features that bring you an intelligent vocal mixing experience.
I will mention before providing this roundup of important plugins when working in audio post-production, that properly capturing the source (whether it be dialog or sound effects) by choosing the correct microphone(s), and proper placement and recording technique, is more important than knowing what the latest noise-reduction plugin is.
The first three entries on this plugin roundup are from iZotope, starting with the groundbreaking RX plugin suite. From broadband noise reduction to spectral repair to removing the sound of wind in recordings to matching ambiance between recordings to removing excessive reverb in dialog, and pretty much everything in between, RX 7 can repair most any sonic deficiencies, and it has revolutionized audio-post workflow.
For example, matching lavalier and boom microphone recordings can be both time consuming and tedious, depending on their sonic differences, but Dialogue Match, which features three independent EQ, Reverb and Ambiance modules, is easy to use and sounds great.
Other useful features include an intelligibility meter that can help users be sure their dialogue is present enough, a beautiful spectrogram to give users an accurate picture of potential frequency-related problems and multichannel support up to 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos.
Those sounds were designed using a combination of originally recorded and library effects, which were then manipulated and meticulously balanced. For when you need to transform sound effects in highly creative ways, or even create sounds from scratch, the Soundtoys Bundle is hard to beat.
The Tremolator is fantastic for adding warble to sci-fi elements, the Crystallizer can help you generate ghostly reverse delay effects, and FilterFreak is great for pulsing, rhythmic filters. EchoBoy (which has nearly endless musical applications) is one of my go-to delay plugins for when I need to create a natural-sounding echo in an actual environment.
Audioease elaborated on this concept with the design and release of Indoor (which is covered later in this article), but Altiverb remains a highly effective reverb plugin for both music and post. The Altiverb Library comes loaded with impulse responses of spaces, including bedrooms, closets, car interiors, sports stadiums, and even the cockpit of a 747. Altiverb is a super useful tool for placing both dialogue and sound effects within proper sonic contexts.
For editing dialogue, having a quality de-esser in your arsenal is a must. Again, FabFilter has created a great all-around product in the Pro-DS. It transparently removes sibilance from sources, and has an expansive set of controls that allow users to improve even the most problematic sources.
In addition to the aforementioned plugins which I use regularly, I had a chat with my good friend Logan Byers (Sound Effects Editor at Levels Audio), and asked him which plugins he commonly uses. Here are his recommendations:
It is laid out on the keyboard in an organized and intuitive manner. When using this VST, I usually layer footsteps to make the steps more dynamic and believable. I then print those two tracks down into one mono stem once I have balanced the layers. I have found this approach to sit in the mix more than just using one footstep.
Anytime I work on dialogue, I always use this plugin to pull out ringing frequencies. I have found this plugin to be perfect for dialogue because it does not color the sound in harsh ways. The studio has the entire bundle on all mix stages and edit bays.
One of the best tools our studio uses is a de-noising plugin called Cedar DNS One. It comes in both a hardware and plugin version. We had the hardware unit in our two Atmos stages but have moved exclusively to the software version.
I was also fortunate enough to speak with my good friend Brendan Byrnes, composer and sound designer at Sticher, about his workflow, and some of the tools he uses during the recording and mixing of sound and music for podcasts.
Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro plug-in will tell you everything about your audio levels. Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Pro and FreqAnalyst Multi plug-ins provide extremely smooth spectrum and frequency content analysis. Finally, the StereoScope plug-ins series let you visualize the stereo image of your audio content in details.
While the 'Pro' plug-ins offer unique possibilities to create your own signal-controlled effects, the 'Multi' versions have unique multiple instances features to perform the analysis on several tracks or anywhere in a signal chain. Our audio analysis tutorials explain these capabilities in details.
"A unique audio meter and side chaining tool" - Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro (DPMP) is a unique audio analysis tool that combines very flexible and customizable audio meters with advanced side chaining control capabilities thanks to its MIDI and automation outputs.
"A unique multi-track spectral analysis tool for mixing or mastering." - Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Multi is a unique multiple tracks real time spectrum analyzer: it lets you visualize the spectral content of several audio tracks on the same screen with extreme smoothness and high resolution, for both time and frequency.
"A powerful spectral analysis tool and automation generator with 3D viewer." - Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Pro is a real time spectrum analyzer with advanced functionalities. It uses the same smooth algorithms as its little brother (Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst free plug-in): it has been designed to provide extreme smoothness and high resolution for both time and frequency.
"The all-at-once waveform visualizer and comparator." - Blue Cat's Oscilloscope Multi is a unique multiple tracks real time waveform renderer and comparator: it lets you visualize the content of several audio tracks on the same screen and compare them thanks to its X-Y view.
"A unique multi-track stereo analysis tool for mixing and mastering." - Blue Cat's StereoScope Multi is a unique tool to compare the stereo image of several tracks in real time. It is the ideal solution for mixing: you can actually see which part of the stereo field every single instrument uses. It can also be used to analyze an effect chain and see how audio effects in...
"Detailed stereo image analysis with 3D visualization." - Blue Cat's StereoScope Pro is a real time stereo field analyzer with multiple views and MIDI/automation output capabilities. It is a powerful help to analyze how the audio signal is spread in the stereo field, and you can easily detect potential phase and mono compatibilities issues.
[Translated from French]: "Regardless of the qualities of the plugs-ins, namely accuracy, usability, richness of features, analysis modes, graphical representation options, it is obviously the side chaining features, the ability to literally transform the audio signal into Midi control information and / or Automation, and the very useful feature to display multiple curves in the Multi versions that do all the salt Blue Cat audio's analysis plug-ins.
In short, with these useful, inventive, and innovative plug-ins offering completely new features, the publisher has pulled it off perfectly. Congrats." - audiofanzine.fr (France) [Read Full Translated Review]
"As is apparent, this bundle is nothing if not feature-packed. The more analytically-minded will find the amount of information on offer pretty incredible, and the ability to output MIDI and automation data is an excellent, forward-thinking feature that alone would be enough to sell this collection to some - the same goes for the Multi functionality."
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