M-22 – How Does It Feel album cover

M-22 – How Does It Feel

Single 2018

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2018 single How Does It Feel.

Music from How Does It Feel

Artists on How Does It Feel

Gear Used On How Does It Feel

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of M-22 – How Does It Feel (2018). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Software Plugins and VSTs used by M-22 on How Does It Feel

EQ Plugins

FabFilter Pro-Q 3

Avg price: $181.00

M-22 are seen using this plugin multiple times during this track breakdown. * At 13:00 they use it to EQ kick samples for layering them. * At 16:18, Frank says > Again fabfilter, some crazy EQing. The look like a painting by the way * At 16:55 Frank says > FabFilter again, just controlling a little bit more of the lows and the upper mids

Synth Plugins

Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer

Avg price: $155.00

Sylenth 1 is seen in a lot of the Midi thats played in this track. 18:36 > Because it going deep, it's sylenth.

Synth Plugins

reFX Nexus 2

At 4:08 Frank says "We use two pianos, one is only the mid infomation which is the M1 because it's just great in the middle and then we take a Nexus piano and surround the M1 with some stereo infomation so it gets super wide.

At 5:00 Matt says "Most people that speak to us about the strings think the strings are live, which are not... The famouse Nexus"

De-Esser Plugins

Waves DeEsser

Avg price: $33.59

At 8:49 this plugin seen on the lead vocals

Mastering Plugins

iZotope Ozone 9

Avg price: $164.00

The Advanced Ozone 7 Dynamic EQ is seen at 9:00

Compressor Plugins

Waves CLA-76 Compressor / Limiter

Avg price: $38.24

At 10:51, Frank pulls up this plugin and says "backing vocals, EQ again this case we use CLA"

Utility Plugins

Universal Audio Pultec EQP-1A Legacy Plug-in

At 13:05 this plugin is pulled up and Frank says while EQing a kick "little bit of Pultec on it to give it some shine on 12K"

Stereo Width Plugins

Brainworx bx_solo

At 14:07 this plugin is pulled up and Frank says "we put this beautiful plugin on just to make it mono"

Reverb Plugins

Universal Audio Little Labs Voice Of God Bass Resonance Plug-In

At 14:56, this plugin is pulled up and Frank says "We have this beautiful plugin just to create some sub frequencies"

Modulator Plugins

Xfer Records LFOTool

At 16:42 this plugin was pulled up and Frank says "LFOtool, we did like a little preset called free the kick juat to make a little bit of space"

Delay Plugins

Soundtoys EchoBoy Analog Echo Processor

Avg price: $197.80

At 20:14 when talking about the Rhodes piano, this plugin is pulled up and Frank says "I think the echo boy was pretty important with giving us movment"

Compressor Plugins

Cytomic The Glue Software Compressor Plugin

At 22:01 this plugin is pulled up while M-22 explain their mastering process and say "With pre groups, where for instance we have the glue on this, this is great. This is like an SSL clone but its important for dance music that you have this side chain here so you can you can tell them not to progress anything below a certain hertz because with those big, fat ass kicks you dont want to have them compressed because they're already great so why would you compress them.

Studio Equipment used by M-22 on How Does It Feel

Effects Processors

Dangerous Music BAX EQ

Avg price: $3,121.70

At 16:13 this plugin is pulled up and Frank says "Bax EQ, sometimes really really nice on the bass."