TrackPlug 7 takes the guesswork out of mixing and makes everything easier. To have every part of the mixing chain together including a gate makes the process efficient and simple. This plugin redefines the mixing chain for engineers and makes it more copacetic.
Chase Bethea is a multi-award-winning video game composer known in the industry as the “Swiss army knife of video game composition.” With over a decade of experience, Chase’s music has enhanced the player’s experience across a diverse range of games. His work, celebrated for its unique fusion of orchestral, electronic, and world music elements, has been performed by ensembles like the Helix Collective, New York Gamer Symphony and other orchestras worldwide. Notable projects include the critically acclaimed soundtracks for I Can’t Escape: Darkness, Aground, and On the Peril of Parrots.
Chase is also a dynamic guest speaker and live performer, showcasing his talents at prestigious game conferences such as MAGWest/MAGFest. Over the past two years, he has given more than 55 talks at conferences and colleges, including GDC, PAX, Berklee College of Music, Game Devs of Colour, IGDA, and Pocket Gamer and MGS at The Strat in Las Vegas. His contributions to the industry have been recognized with exhibitions in the NAMM Museum and the British Library, and he has shared his insights through articles published in multiple global magazines. Chase's passion for innovation in game music has earned him numerous accolades and solidified his reputation as a leading voice in the industry.
Wave Arts MultiDynamics has been my go-to multi-band compressor for years. It is a critical tool for taming harsh dialogue, shaping vocals, music mastering, and transparent threshold-based noise suppression.
Fred Paragano (CAS) is a Re-Recording Mixer & Supervising Sound Editor for television and feature films. He has been nominated for three MPSE awards, two Prime Time Emmy awards and has won one Golden Reel Award.
Fred began his career recording and mixing music for major label artists in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. His recording and mixing work has been featured on multiple Grammy-winning albums and live concert videos.
In 2003 he created Paragon Studios in Nashville, TN. The 22,000sf studio complex was a ground-up, world-class music and post-production facility designed by acclaimed acoustician, Russ Berger. The studios catered to artists and film/TV clients from across the country and around the world. For nearly 20 years, he maintained ownership of the facility until moving its current operations to a newly designed facility in Los Angeles in 2022.
In 2012, he relocated from Nashville to LA where he continues to remain active as a Re-Recording Mixer, Supervising Sound Editor & Music Mixer.
I work one-on-one with most of the film composers and tv composers such as Thomas Newman, Paul Haslinger, Jay Gruska, John Keane, Bill Brown, Aaron Zigman and am always referring to the Wave Arts plug-ins for help.
I use TrackPlug on every session to alter the character of the sounds that I use. Fitting the sound in, not to get in the way of other parts of the music or dialogue is important to the session. I can also alter the original sample to become another instrument using TrackPlug.
I use FinalPlug to control the final mix of what I am presenting to the composer.
I use MasterVerb all the time to get a different take on the ambiences that I create. It is the smoothest non-convolution reverb out there.
Panorama helps me place different elements of my sound to fit in the overall sound horizon of my patch (eg. one element in your face while a subtle element just in the background barely felt).
I am now doing a fair amount of field recording now and use the Master Restoration plug-in to clean up the unwanted ambience in the recording.
I would be seriously compromised without the use of these plug-ins.
Based in Southern California, Steve Tavaglione has had a rich an varied musical career. He is a multi-instrumentalist, playing saxophones, clarinets and flutes touring and or performing with the likes of George Benson, John Patitucci, Roger Waters, Sly and the Family Stone, Sergio Mendes, Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta and scores of others. He is a leading performer on Nyle Steiner’s EWI (a wind synthesizer).
Steve’s extensive resume includes work on movies such as Oceans 11,12, and 13, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Bugs Life, Bridge to Terabithia, and Jarhead as well as the television series CSI New York, CSI Las Vegas, Supernatural, Charmed, Jericho, Lois and Clark, and Diagnoses Murder.
“Tube Saturator 2 has put great energy into my tracks. I am currently using it on various drums, instruments, aux sends underneath vocals and it is simply magic. TS2 brings everything it touches to life. It will definitely be a ‘secret weapon’ plugin on the next Soul Ballet CD as well as my film and television work.”
Rick Kelly is a Grammy nominated producer, arranger, programmer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. Rick is the force behind Soul Ballet, a mix of electronica and smooth jazz described as a chilled out, funky blast of sonically brilliant, magnificently performed nujazz originals.
In addition to Soul Ballet, Rick has produced / performed / arranged for: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Dave Stewart, Shakespeare’s Sister, Herbie Hancock, T-Bone Burnett, Cheap Trick, Earth Wind & Fire, The Emotions, Tavares, Foxy, The Call, Jaco Pastorious, Olivia Newton John, Kim Carnes, David Foster, Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer, Patrice Rushen, The Brothers Johnson, Stanley Clarke, Jody Watley, Billy Preston and many more.
As an actor, Rick has performed in dozens of TV shows and movies, and will be appearing in the upcoming release of Trumbo, starring Elle Fanning and Bryan Cranston.
