Black Sun Empire
Dutch drum‐and‐bass group
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In this video at 6:36 René from Black Sun Empire uses this limiter to keep the signal "at 0".
In this video Black Sun Empire writes "In this tutorial we focus on making reece bass lines and stabs in Cubase." At :35s into the video you can see that they are running Cubase 6.5 specifically.
At :49s in this video, Black Sun Empire says "I don’t know if you guys know this because it’s not the most famous plugin like Massive, that’s probably the most famous - it’s interesting, it’s fairly simple, and to be honest all of these king of plug-ins are sort of similar." The on-screen plug-in shown is the Vember Audio Surge.
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In the YouTube video "BLACKOUT - Tutorial 001" by Black Sun Empire, René demonstrates the use of Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6 at the 5:31 mark to craft a reese bass utilizing its distortion, filters, and other effects.
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In this video at 9:35 René from Black Sun Empire uses Native Instruments Driver to "add some more drive to it" and mentions how it is his favorite Native Instruments driver and also says "it's really good".
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In this video at 11:50 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin on a drum bus to add some filth using the tube emulation.
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In this video at 12:19 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin to compress the drum bus.
In this video at 38:30 they are using wlm plus loudness meter.
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In an interview with KMAG Black Sun Empire say "We have two rooms. The main one and the small one are almost the same when it comes to PCs and synths; Cubase5 with RME soundcards, Nord Modular G1 and G2 and some random machines like Waldorf Pulse, Korg Z1 and an Evolver Keyboard."
In this video at 5:11 René from Black Sun Empire uses FabFilter Pro-L to prevent clipping.
In this video at 9:55 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin to "add some more EQ" in the process of designing a reese bass.
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In this video at 10:18 René from Black Sun Empire uses this EQ plugin to "take the low end of the frequencies out".
In this video at 10:49 René from Black Sun Empire mentions how "boring and low in volume" a sound is, so he uses Trash 2 to "crank that".
In this video at 1:19 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin to boost the bass a little bit.
In this video René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin to compress some drum samples.
In this video at 2:02 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin to "blend it all".
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In this video at 4:38 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin. He says: "This is quite a useful plugin... because it's sort of in between a compressor and an EQ, because normally what an EQ would do is if you set it to a certain frequency to add a couple of decibels, it would always do that, but this plugin allows you to react on the incoming signal so you can have it do more or less depending on the signal, and you can give it attack and relase as well so you have a little bit more flexibility. This is a very cool trick to add a lot of boosts".
In this video at 7:45 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin to boost the low frequency and distort it.
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In this video at 9:26 René from Black Sun Empire can be seen using this plugin. He says: "This is another trick you can do to add different layers [of drums] because the attack is always gonna be a problem, so if you have different attacks from either snares or kicks sometimes it's better to take out a bit of the attack, and this plugin does it".
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In this video at 13:57 René from Black Sun Empire uses this plugin to take out some frequencies.
In this video at 14:06 René from Black Sun Empire uses this compressor with very mild settings on a drum bus.
In this video at 14:28 René from Black Sun Empire uses the RS135 plugin from the Abbey Road Brilliance Pack to "add 2 dBs of highs".
In this video at 14:34 René from Black Sun Empire uses the Stereo Imaging component of Ozone 5 to add some stereo width in the high frequencies.
In this video at 14:50 René from Black Sun Empire mentions how they use SPAN "to see what's going on".
In this video at 2:50 you can see this plugin in the mixer during a Black Sun Empire tutorial walkthrough.
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In this video at 2:50 you can see this plugin in the mixer during a Black Sun Empire tutorial walkthrough.
In this video at 2:11 you can see this plugin in the mixer during a Black Sun Empire tutorial walkthrough.
In this video at 21:47 they are using bionic delay.
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