How to Improve Your Mixdown with ANIMATE (Plugin Tutorial) | 3 Sound Engineering Tips

We’ve got BigJerr on the scene doing to an overview of the new mixing and sound design plugin, ANIMATE, from Mastering the Mix. He digs into a track of his to show you exactly how he’s using the modules:

-Punch to add some mono impact to the mid signal of his snare drum
-Ignite to add some frequency specific distortion to his bass
-Grow to add some Hass effect style stereo width to his piano to layer up with the main super saw synth

This plugin will be a solid fit if you’re doing mixing or sound engineering and you want control over the stereo width of your sounds, distortion or upwards expansion only on certain frequency ranges or parts of the signal that exceed a threshold, and dynamic control over stereo field.

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0:00 Intro
0:26 What is ANIMATE?
0:44 The Four Modules
0:59 What are you going to show me?
1:03 Main Control Overview
1:06 The Filter
1:21 Threshold Control
1:30 Amount Control
1:42 Stereo and Mid Side Control
1:35 Input/Output Section
2:02 Speaker Animation
2:10 Movement Mode Selector
2:17 Three Ways To Improve Your Mix Down
2:39 Song Preview
3:04 Punch Mode
3:11 Before Punch
3:31 How Punch Can Come To The Rescue
3:48 Punch Sensitivity Control
4:02 Punch Attack and Release Control
4:12 Solo Button & Bypass Punch
5:24 After Punch
5:37 Ignite Mode

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[iproduction]

Thanks so much for this Video.
would you please explain about the sidechain?

[ankushkoul]

It creates phase issues when i use the wide feature. Please help

[fanfarorro]

Sometimes the % meter is acting wrong. Also i think Ignite and Punch mode are better then Wide / Expand

[ownedbymykitty]

I just hate the interface of most Mastering the Mix plugins. It reminds me of the tacky and cheap alien looking Roland AIRA line of gear.