Plugin of the Week – The Talking Fern

Find Out Our Top 3 Plugins of the Week of 2017! OekSound, UAD & More Inside…

Plugins have become a mainstay in music production as a convenient and cost-effective alternative for larger physical hardware options. That said, the market for plugins is huge, saturated with thousands of applications performing similar jobs from different companies. We begun our ‘Plugin of the Week’ series to shed some light on this technical minefield and provide you our […]

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Plugin of The Week: Eventide Ultratrap Delay

Point Blank resident plugin tester JC Concato is back with another instalment of our Plugin of the Week series, this time looking at Eventide’s Ultratrap Delay. Currently on sale at $49 until September 5th. Ultratrap began as a factory preset in Eventide’s SP2016 rack mount audio processor back in 1982. It was later included in […]

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Our Plugin of The Week Series is Back Today at 5pm With Noiiz

Point Blank Creative Director and resident plugin scientist JC Concato is back with another instalment of our Plugin of The Week series, this time looking at Noiiz. Noiiz is a cloud-based sample library that operates as a plugin in your DAW. By subscribing, you are able to access an ever-expanding amount of one-shots, loops, presets and […]

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Plugin of The Week: Arturia Oberheim SEM V

For this edition of our Plugin of the Week feature, regular plugin test-dummy Carly Hordern is joined by Sound Design instructor Paul Ressel to pick apart Arturia’s Oberheim SEM V. Paul teaches Sound Design as a part of our BA (Hons) Music Production & Sound Engineering Degree. The SEM was Oberheim’s first analogue synth, a keyboardless […]

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Plugin of The Week: Eventide Blackhole

Point Blank’s plugin crash test dummies JC and Carly are back with a brand new Plugin of The Week, this time diving into the otherworldly, galactic reverb ‘Blackhole’, created by the folks at Eventide. Blackhole began as an algorithm in Eventide’s DSP4000 & H8000 hardware processors, often regarded as a ‘secret weapon’ by sound engineers. […]

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Plugin of The Week: oeksound Soothe

For this week’s Plugin of The Week live stream, JC and Carly will be taking a look at an innovative new plugin from Finnish company oeksound. Soothe is a spectral processor for suppressing resonances in the mid and high frequencies, which works by automatically detecting the resonances in the audio material and applying a reduction […]

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Plugin Of The Week: Molot Compressor

For this Plugin of The Week, Point Blank’s plugin-scientist JC Concato has decided to test something a little bit different. The Molot compressor is 100% free, made by Vladg/Sound. It is The fact that it offers saturation control means that this plugin is not a transparent compressor, rather adding its own distinct colour to sound. It’s […]

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Plugin of The Week: Outer Space Tape Echo

The folks at AudioThing have created an affordable emulation of the Roland RE 201 Space Echo, an iconic tape echo introduced in 1974. Our resident plugin test-dummy JC Concato has decided to put it through its paces, making it our Plugin of The Week this week. As the original unit, Outer Space features an echo […]

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Plugin of The Week: SSL 4000 E (Channel Strip Plugin)

Solid State Logic’s 4000 E mixing console was first introduced in 1979, changing mixing forever and becoming an instant studio classic. This iconic console has had more platinum records recorded on it than any other desk and now, through Universal Audio, it is available to us all as an official SSL plugin – making it a […]

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Plugin of the Week: BX_Subsynth

A deep and clean low end can add that polished and rich sound to your mix. Whilst traditional EQ can help boost bass frequencies that are already present in your signal, there are times when you need to add a rich sub that is not there in the first place. The DBX 120XP, also known as the […]

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