in this episode of The Home Studio Show I'm looking at Ujam's new electric
guitar VST plugin called virtual guitarist carbon I'm also going to check
out their virtual drummer 2 plugins and I'm going to check out a few free
VST plugins from DevilSoundz plus I've got a tip on how to find the best audio
interface for you while on a budget and that's all coming up
welcome to the home studio show on simple green tech I'm Zane and on this
show I give you news and reviews of audio software like plugins or digital
audio workstations I'll also make sure to check out at least one free plugin in
every episode plus I'll give you some quick audio tips and more this is
episode one of The Home Studio show you can watch it on youtube or you can also
download it as a podcast from thehomestudioshow.com it should also be
available on iTunes and other podcast outlets thank you so much for checking
out the first episode and here's today's home studio show line up for news Ujam
has released virtual guitarist carbon and i'm going to be checking that out
for plugin reviews i'm going to be checking out that virtual guitarist
carbon plus i'm also going to check out Ujam's three virtual drummer two
plugins the free plugins that i'm checking out today are from Devilsoundz
and the audio tip is how to find the best audio interface for you while on a
budget and of course links to everything i mentioned in this show are in the
description so you can check those out whenever you want but right now let's
jump into the home studio show Ujam has released a new instrument in their
virtual series this one is an electric guitar plugin called virtual guitarist
carbon it serves a wide variety of ultra-modern guitar sounds like eight
string guitars drop tuning and it's all fed through a large custom setup of
newly invented amp and cabinet models as well as stompbox effects carbon is all
about distorted guitar styles from bass riffs to power chords and even simple
melodies Ujam virtual guitars carbon will sound great in video game
and action soundtracks and it can also deliver subtle accents to film music
let's give the sound of carbon a bit of a review right now
I can really picture this being used in some cool electronic mixes and video
game soundtracks or if you want to create metal music and you can't play
guitar virtual guitarist carbon might be for you let me know what you think about
it now let's review some more plugins from Ujam the Ujam virtual drummer
series is now on version 2 and there are three editions in the virtual drummer 2
series you have Phat which creates some funky urban hip-hop sounds then there's
virtual drummer solid which is a great all-around drum sound and finally we
have virtual drummer heavy which as the name suggests is for the more heavier
sounds all three editions of virtual drummer two have similar features and
controls just each one is geared towards a different music style now enough
talking about them let's jump in and check them out first up we have virtual
drummer Phat
now let's check out virtual drummer solid and finally here's virtual drummer
heavy I've used several of Ujam's plugins now and they've all been great
they do offer 30-day free trials of all of their plugins be sure to check the
description for links to those and just so you know they did not sponsor this
they did not pay me any money to do the review they did provide me with a key to
try their product and that's about it I didn't have to do a review or anything I
chose to do this just wanted to be clear on that alright I hope you're enjoying
this new show format so far please give it a thumbs up if you are also let me
know in the comments what you think about it you can also let me know if
there's some software that you want me to check out in a future episode now
moving on to the next part of the home studio show is the free plugin portion
of the show I'm going to review at least one free plugin in every episode and
this week I'm reviewing a few plugins from Devilsoundz there are five plugins
available from them three instruments and two effects the instruments include
devil which is a dual oscillator analog style subtractive synth it can create
some great sounds and we're going to give them a listen in just a bit you can
also grab the devil base module which has three oscillators and can create a
wide variety of bass sounds and the final instrument is devil drummer can
you guess what this one's about yep it's a drum sampler and it's actually quite
nice for a free plugin the two free effects are devil reverb which is more
of an instrument reverb and vocal reverb as the name States is a vocal reverb
let's check out the instrument plugins right now
and that's it for the instrument plugins remember there's also those reverb
plugins that you can grab from devil sounds maybe I'll do a dedicated video
for just the devilsoundz free plugins but I'm not going to review the reverbs
in this video as it's now time to move on to the next section of the home
studio show which is the quick audio tip of the week and today's tip is how to
find the best audio interface for you while on a budget or at least the best
one to start with there seem to be hundreds of audio
interfaces out there and more are being created all the time so what is the best
one to choose for your particular needs first you'll need to figure out how many
sources you plan on recording at any one time if you're just a guitar player and
a singer and you're only going to record one or two things at the same time you
can go with the Focusrite solo or the behringer UMC 22 both are great options
and both of them will record two inputs at the same time now if you're a drummer
you're going to want something with like eight inputs at least but you can get
away with four inputs to start with if your budget doesn't allow for something
with eight inputs there are a variety of eight input and four input audio
interfaces out there obviously they're going to cost a little more than the
smaller ones I'll include links to a few of them in the description so you can
check those out the next thing to consider when picking out an audio
interface is the price what's your budget for this if all you can afford is
a Behringer interface with all of the inputs that you need
they actually make great USB audio interfaces now there's no shame in
purchasing a Behringer audio interface you can also check out some of Focusrite
Scarlett series audio interfaces now they are a bit more expensive than the
behringer ones but many people think that they're worth
the upgrade so determine your input needs and your budget if you need to go
with one of the more affordable brands like behringer they actually can provide
you with CD quality and radio quality audio so there's no shame there go with
those so go with what you can afford get used to it master it and then just
concentrate on your songwriting that's going to be the biggest difference in
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