if your vocals a little muddy and maybe blending in with some of the other instruments a bit
the slate digital fresh air plugin can help this is a free vocal plugin that's
super easy to use and it can get your vocal track to stand out in a mix i'm zane welcome to simple
green tech where my goal is to help you conquer the tech so you can unleash your creativity and
today i'm looking at the slate digital fresh air plugin this is a free vst it's available on both
mac and windows i've included a link to it down in the description so you can easily hop over there
and grab it for yourself but right now let's jump in and hear how it sounds
as you can see and here the slate digital fresh air plug-in makes it very easy to
breathe life into your vocal tracks now there's one thing that you'll need before you can use
the slight digital fresh air plugin and that's an ilock account it's free to set up an ilock
account so it doesn't cost you any money and you might already have one as a lot of plugins use it
so you don't actually need the physical eye lock you just need the free account so be sure you
set that up before you try using this plugin now let's look at some of the controls of the slate
digital fresh air plugin and we'll also do some more audio tests so first up we have the big mid
air control right here and this adjusts the mid highs that can really help to bring presence to
your vocal so let's try it out now and i'm going to leave the high air at zero and just use the
mid air control you can start a revolution just remember that rock and roll ain't noise pollution
if not us then you and you can really hear how just adjusting that one control
helps the vocal to stand out now over here we have the high air control and this adjusts the
super high frequencies which can help to brighten your vocal so let's hear how this
rolling sounds pollution want that rock in attitude if not us then you
so you can hear how if we were to combine the two controls it would really help your vocal to
stand out and you'll also notice in the middle here we have the link button so that will link
these two together so say we had this over to the side here like that and we have that one
there and we want to adjust them so they are equal distance apart as they are now
we would just click that on and this can really help with your fine tuning and speaking of fine
tuning if you hold down control on your computer keyboard and then you try to rotate it slows it
down it makes it more like a stepped control and this can help with your fine tuning as well and in
addition to clicking and dragging the controls you can also double click in the center here and enter
in a value over here we have our trim control and this can help if you want to level match
the affected signal to the unaffected signal and it can help to avoid clipping the plug-in so you
can see the big meter up here and that will help you with your levels and then the last thing down
here is the power button and this basically is a bypass so let's just give that a test right now
before we get into the rest of the
slate digital fresh air controls and audio tests i just want to ask if you're enjoying this video so
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now back into it now let's move on to the top bar up here so this is your preset menu right here
if you were to click on it like that you can see we have some presets in here and you can
click whichever one you want and you can also click these arrows up and down and they'll go
to the next one or the previous one depending on the arrow that you click you can also save your
preset so you would just click on here and enter in a name for whatever preset you want to save
then over here you have undo and redo button so if you kind of mess something up and you want
to go back you could just undo it with that and the a b these are snapshots so say we want to
try this setting but we also want to try another setting and a and b them so right now we're on a
and we have a setting in there so if we click on b it resets the plugin and we can just dial
in something different right here so now if we go to a we go back to that one and then b
and this arrow in the middle that's going to send the settings here to b so if i click that now b
has the same settings now if we did it this way when the arrow is pointing to the a
it will send the settings to a so it all depends on whichever one you're clicked on
and then you can change these settings here and go back and you have those other settings then the
last thing up here is this little dialog button if you turn that on and then you hover over something
you'll see a little dialogue message that pops up that can help you if you want now you can
use this plugin as an insert directly on your vocal track or you can use it as a send plug-in
on a bus whatever you're comfortable with using and whatever suits your style you can also use
this plugin on other instruments not just vocals so let's give it a quick listen on drums right now
and we can also try this out on our master bus if we want to bring a little air to the master
so i'm going to bring that down onto the master track and let's listen to how this sounds now
all right that's actually not too bad on the
mix bus but i think the slate digital fresh air plugin is an awesome free vocal plugin
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon