Ben Duffy & Kove – Echoes album cover

Ben Duffy & Kove – Echoes

Single 2019

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2019 single Echoes.

Music from Echoes

Gear Used On Echoes

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Ben Duffy & Kove – Echoes (2019). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Software Plugins and VSTs used by Kove on Echoes

Distortion Plugins

FabFilter Saturn 2

Avg price: $130.20

2:12 - FF saturn can be seen in an effects chain

Multi-Effect Plugins

Dada Life Sausage Fattener Plugin

12:20 - "So on the drum bus I have Sausage fattener"

2:12 - "Sausage Fa" can be seen in an effects chain.

Amp Simulator Plugins

Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6

5:19 - When talking about a guitar mix, Kove says "There's a guitar rig on there as well which is just giving it a bit of a cabinet sound. Otherwise it's sounding too much like a DI"

Saturation Plugins

Soundtoys Decapitator

Avg price: $197.00

10:37 - Kove pulls up this plugin that he has used on a kick attack layer.

Dynamic Processor Plugins

Wavesfactory TrackSpacer

Avg price: $36.00

18:50 - when discussing a bass mix, Kove says "Then I have this which is the track spacer, great Plugin"

Limiter Plugins

FabFilter Pro-L 2 Limiter Plugin

Avg price: $192.33

18:52 - When discussing a bass mix. Kove pulls up Pro-L and says "Then I've given it a bit of a limit even though it's not actually doing anything. All it's doing is making everything wide"

Limiter Plugins

Waves L1 Limiter

24:09 - When discussing a vocal mix, Kove pulls up L1 and says "Then I've just given this a limit as well just again to control anything that's going on"

De-Esser Plugins

Waves DeEsser

Avg price: $33.59

24:16 - When discussing a vocal mix, Kove pulls up DeEsser and says "Quite a heavy De-ess going on here because it was a very sibilent vocal take, which wasnt awful but once you got those peaks going that's going to be interfearing"

EQ Plugins

FabFilter Pro-Q 3

Avg price: $181.00

When dicussing a vocal mix, Kove pulls up this plugin and says "Again just to control control this lower mid area. It's not doing a huge amount, it's still letting that first harmonic come through but im just keeping everything under control"

Reverb Plugins

Audio Ease Altiverb 7

24:44 - When discussing a vocal mix, Kove pulls up this plugin and says "I've got this which is one of my favourite plugins, this is altiverb and it's a convolation reverb rather then a alrhythmical whatever. It's got a whole host of classic reverbs and it's got absolutly loads on hear and it's got fantastic springs, old school digital reverbs, plate reverbs and really good stuff. It's very CPU heavy but if you're looking to get that older school sound and classic sound this is fantastic"

Audio Restoration Plugins

Waves X-Crackle

Avg price: $44.74

26:56 - When discussing a vocal mix, Kove pulls up this plugin and says "and this is great, super useful for compressing basses too much or adding a lot of top end. You can get artifcacts and this is really good at getting rid of them."

EQ Plugins

Waves API 560 10-Band EQ Plugin

Avg price: $34.33

27:02 - When discussing a vocal mix, Kove pulls up this plugin and says "The here I've added a bit of top end, like a nice shelf, just to get that nice sheen"

Compressor Plugins

FabFilter Pro-MB Multiband Dynamics Plugin

Avg price: $192.33

24:36

At 24:36 FabFilter Pro-MB can clearly be seen throughout the video.

EQ Plugins

Logic Pro Channel EQ

Matches at 26:32 where 'Channel EQ' can clearly be seen at the uttermost left part of the (Apple Macbook Pro) screen,

5:32 is another good example of Apple's Channel EQ.

Studio Equipment used by Kove on Echoes

Computers & Peripherals

Apple MacBook Pro (General)

At 10:57 and throughout the video an Apple Macbook Pro can be seen from the camera's angle.