Welcome to a curated hub exploring the creative frontier of modern music production. This space highlights innovative tools, iconic tones, and the artists who bring them to life, offering a snapshot of current inspiration in the gear and creative community.
The recent featured content showcases a powerful blend of analog authenticity and digital innovation. A video from Blackstar Amplification demonstrates the crushing "Gory by Fangs Out" tones achieved with their ID:X Floor units, while promoting the "Designed, Not Modelled" realism of the St. James EL34 digital amp suite. This underscores a prevailing theme: capturing the soul of classic valve amplification within a high-performance, modern workflow.
Further exploring creative signal processing, a video by Cong Burn, featuring Andrew Huang, examines the BABY Audio Transit plugin. This tool reshapes sound by stacking parameter changes onto a single macro dial, a process powerfully enhanced when paired with the modulation sequencers of the Strokes plugin. This highlights a trend toward intuitive, performance-oriented effects that encourage experimental sound design.
Finally, artistry remains central. A video from Celemony profiles guitarist, songwriter, and producer Randy Bowland, discussing his career and musical ideas. The focus extends to how such authentic performances can be captured and adapted within a production, emphasizing technology that serves the artist's original intent. Together, these posts paint a picture of a landscape where groundbreaking gear and software empower genuine musical expression.
- Gory by Fangs Out. 🩸🦇 | ID:X Floor
Video by Blackstar Amplification via YouTube Gory by Fangs Out. 🩸🦇 Guitarist Ben on the ID:X Floor Three. Bassist Jay on the ID:X Floor One. Sponsored: Capture Iconic Tube Tones with the Blackstar St. James EL34 Experience the “Designed, Not Modelled” realism of Blackstar’s premier valve amp in a high-performance digital format. The… Gory by Fangs Out. 🩸🦇 | ID:X Floor - Strokes 🤝 Transit@BABYAudio-official
Video by Cong Burn via YouTube Reshaping with @andrewhuang @BABYAudio-official Transit – a v nice macro multi fx. The way it works is that you stack a bunch of parameter changes on a single ‘Transition’ dial, then twist. The next thing you do is hook it up to Strokes modulation sequencers… Thanks Andrew… Strokes 🤝 Transit@BABYAudio-official - Meet Randy Bowland
Video by Celemony via YouTube Get to know Randy Bowland — guitarist, songwriter, and producer. In the full video, Randy talks about his career, his sound, and the musical ideas behind his playing. Those ideas are captured as real studio performances and adapt naturally to your song — while staying true to the… Meet Randy Bowland - What artist does this remind you of? 🖤
Video by AIR Music Tech via YouTube Running Iona into Tape Double Track for that warped stereo haze. What artist does this remind you of? 🖤 Try these plugins and more on a 10-day free trial at https://www.airmusictech.com/virtual-instruments/iona/. Source - Vertigo Mosaic Walkthrough
Video by CINEMATIQUE INSTRUMENTS via YouTube This is the walkthrough to our recent instrument VERTIGO MOSAIC. A mosaic of fractured sounds Vertigo Mosaic is the essence of the Vertigo universe – a fractured anthology of sounds distilled into one instrument. It unites every Vertigo voice, yet focuses on the raw, fragile and unconventional… Vertigo Mosaic Walkthrough - Build a custom tape machine in seconds
Video by Plugin Alliance via YouTube The Plugin Alliance Subscription provides instant access to over 200 audio plugins, allowing you to keep your favorites. It includes virtual instruments, guitar and bass amps, creative effects, mixing plugins, and mastering plugins. Demo all of Plugin Alliance’s products for 30 days. Start a FREE Plugin Alliance… Build a custom tape machine in seconds - Driving Home—Adam Pietruszko plays with his FM Core sound pack for Multiphonics CV-3
Video by Applied Acoustics Systems via YouTube FM Core Product Page: https://www.applied-acoustics.com/fm-core/ Multiphonics CV-3: https://www.applied-acoustics.com/multiphonics-cv-3/ Straight from his Poland HQ, resident sound designer Adam Pietruszko gave his Multiphonics CV-3 sound pack FM Core a spin and came out with this 80s inspired Synthwave piece utilizing only sounds from FM Core. We hope you’ll… Driving Home—Adam Pietruszko plays with his FM Core sound pack for Multiphonics CV-3 - I Built a DAW in 3 Days Using AI (And You Can Too)
Video by Cinesamples via YouTube I built a fully functional DAW in 3 days using agentic AI tools (Claude Opus 4.5 inside Cursor)… and it actually works. Open Source!! https://github.com/mpatti/musio-create In this video I walk through the app itself (a native macOS DAW) and then show how I “vibe coded” it: MIDI editing,… I Built a DAW in 3 Days Using AI (And You Can Too)