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What are Plugins Really doing to your Audio with Protoculture

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So you’ve got a favourite plugin that you throw onto a track or element and it immediately makes it ‘sound’ better before you’ve even tweaked any of the parameters and are wondering why? Or maybe you think that when your plugin is set at 100% dry it’s not affecting your sound?

Well, who better to investigate this further than Protoculture?

In this super useful video, Nate inverts the phase to ‘null’ the sound before selecting different plugins to find out exactly what they are doing to your audio signal. Not only can this technique help you find some of the plugins that may introduce unwanted artifacts but it can help you fine-tune which plugins are good for certain jobs.

This one will take your plugin knowledge up a gear and help you understand how they really work.

Check it out!

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Simple, but great info. Thank you so much!

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This is some essential mixing knowledge for those wanting to understand digital audio in depth.

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Great technique to use phasing to cancel out the source audio and only see the audio artifacts/impressions left behind created by the plugin. I am interesting in testing this out with many plugins to learn the effects in great depth without letting the original audio confuse it.

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Wouldn’t Null comparison rely on a plugin not adding any time delay?
Would a better comparison be to have identical plugins over both channel pairs in order to have the same phase/delay and drop the depth/mix on one of them?