Pulsar Plug-Ins Explained

Pulsar plug-ins are highly regarded in the audio world for their emulations (often enhanced) of some of the most famous hardware processors of all time. In this Pulsar plugin video course, Groove3 instructor Eli Krantzberg takes you on an in-depth tour of the Pulsar plug-in collection, demonstrating how to achieve stellar results on various source tracks, as well as entire mixes. You also get the audio files Eli uses in the videos so you can follow along! These videos are for new Pulsar plug-in users.

Videos

• Massive: How It Works (05:51) - Learn about the unique gain and bandwidth interactions that make this EQ plug-in special.

• Massive: Getting Around the Interface (09:18) - Learn about general Pulsar interface conventions and how all the functions work in the Massive EQ GUI.

• Massive in Action Pt. 1 (06:50) - Hear the Massive EQ put to work on kick, snare, overheads, hi-hat, synth bass, and synth lead tracks.

• Massive in Action Pt. 2 (05:30) - Follow along as a few more examples of broad tone-shaping with Massive are examined, this time on keyboard chords, female vocals, and electric guitars.

• Mu: How It Works (07:12) - Learn about all the interface controls on this Variable Mu style compressor/limiter.

• Mu in Action (07:11) - Explore the effects of the parameters on a drum bus, guitar bus, and a full mix.

• 1178: How It Works (10:09) - Discover all the characterful and colorful options this deceptively simple-looking compressor has to offer.

• 1178 in Action (09:48) - Hear various examples of this beautiful, fast compressor in use on kick drum, snare, overheads, rhythm guitars, processed guitars, electric bass, and female vocals.

• Smasher (06:16) - Discover the beautiful-sounding qualities of this aggressive extreme "all buttons in" form of 1176 compression, as it's applied to drum overheads to bring out ambiance, rhythm and solo guitars to bring out more percussive attack, and a synth solo to amplify and exaggerate the existing ambiance.

• Echorec: How It Works (09:23) - Learn all about the interactions between the four read heads and the delay values, the feedback values and mode settings, and the disc speed and delay value offsets.

• Echorec in Action (08:56) - Explore the Echorec as it's used on the lead guitar solo, synth solo, and vocal send.

• Playthrough (03:49) - Listen to a brief playthrough of the two main arrangements used throughout this series, with all the combined Pulsar plug-in processing enabled/disabled during playback for comparison.