there's a new plugin company on the scene called Black Salt Audio and they just released a couple
of new plugins for their launch and these are great sounding plugins that can add a lot to
your mixes so in this video i'm going to test them out as i look at the black salt audio low control
and black salt audio escalator plugins i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to
help you conquer the tech so you can unleash your creative beast and this video is not sponsored by
Black Salt Audio but they did send me early access to the demos of these plugins so i would check
them out and that's what i'm going to do today check them out with you and i've included a link
down in the description to their website so you can get any more information that you might want
on these plugins they are available on both mac and windows but right now let's jump in alright
so first up let's look at the low control plugin and this does what the name suggests it gives you
control over your low end and first by compressing it with this section over here and then you have
this enhanced section over here that allows you to take further control of your low end
and really solidify your sound it's a pretty straightforward plugin with an easy to use user
interface but right now let's jump in and check it out so i'm just going to turn this off even though
it's on the default settings let's just check out the sound that we're working with it's just like
an electronic drum track using the loop cloud drum plug-in so here's what we've got going on
it's a pretty simple little beat there and i'm going to try to beef it up with this low
control plugin so i'm going to enable it and first let's just try to dial something in and
then i'll get into the presets but i just want to try to dial something in right off the bat so
let's just play it in loop and i'm going to adjust some things and we'll see where we get with that
so that's not too bad right there let's just listen to it on and off so i'll start with it off
you can really hear it's beefed it up quite a bit so
let's hear what it sounds like all together with the other stuff going on in this mix
all right so it's not too bad it really beefs it up in the mix and gives it a lot more solid
low end but let's check out some of these presets in here now so let's just try this
control and enhance so we'll try that one out and see what it sounds like
all right that's pretty cool and what else do they got going on
in here kick helper let's try that out
that one's not too bad either all right so now i'm going to try it out on a simple base synth
and here's what it sounds like without it enabled
nothing fancy and we'll enable this go into a preset here
and let's see let's go to synth bass try that out and see what happens
now that really beefed that base up it sounds great with that plugging on there and that was
just with the preset so that's pretty cool on a synth bass now before we get into the black salt
escalator plugin i just want to ask if you're enjoying this video so far getting some value out
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now let's check out the next vst plugin alright so this is escalator it's a saturation plugin
with a very simple user interface and you've got your main saturation control here and an output
control over here that's it so there's no presets here it's very easy to dial in the sound you need
on whatever specific source you have now don't let this simple user interface fool you as
this plugin can really thicken up your sound in addition to adding some nice saturation it's got
a whole lot of magic going on in behind this main control here so let's give the black salt audio
escalator a try on a few different tracks first up i have it on a drum track here so
i'm just going to start the drum track and adjust the settings and we'll see what we can get
so you can hear what it's done to that simple drum beat right there it's beefed
it up it's added some nice saturation to it now let's try it out on a bass guitar
and just gonna start playing it again and we'll adjust the setting
all right that's not too bad on the bass guitar right there
so now i have it loaded on to a little more of an aggressive drum beat so we can hear
what it sounds like with a really aggressive drumbeat let's give it a listen and adjust it
all right i like that i'm gonna try it out on the more aggressive bass line as well
now after checking out both of these plugins i think black salt audio is a company to watch
for in the future releasing two solid plugins right off the bat now if you want to check out
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon