Above & Beyond

In this tweet, Jono Grant of Above & Beyond praises PreSonus Studio One by stating "Studio One is pretty amazing". Due to the date of this tweet, it can be assumed the discussed version of Studio One is version 3.

Tony McGuinness of Above & Beyond lists the Omnisphere as one of the plugins he comes back to time and time again. He says "Omnisphere does synth strings so well its hard to wean yourself off that thing."

"...Spectrasonics Omnisphere and the Arts Acoustic reverb are probably the most used things on our computer over the last few years."

"...the Arts Acoustic Reverb is transparent and fabulous."

Tony of Above & Beyond on the Waves L2: "...we've done Waves and still use the L2 (who doesn't, let's be honest!)"

"...our current favourites are the PSP Vintage Warmer (sex in a box!)..."

"The sample pack KICK FREE Revolution is essential – what’s great is the material sounds very fresh. We’re already using this in our productions, and it’s very easy to drop them into apple loops and get working straight away."

Listed as a user on the official product page.

Endless Smile is already being used by Steve Angello, Zedd, Tritonal, Axwell, Deniz Koyu, Hardwell, Thomas Gold, Diplo, Chris Lake, Above & Beyond, Blasterjaxx, GTA, Bassjackers, TJR, Bingo Players, Tommy Trash and many other DJ/producers.

Tony of Above & Beyond says the group occasionally uses the Nexus synth to instantly and easily create "classic trance sounds."

Jono says "NEXUS sounds and plays like it was made for musicians by musicians.

You are going to install this synth and get using these sounds in your tracks straight away, and very little additional processing is necessary. It's also great to find a built in reverb that is so smooth and rivals good quality hardware reverbs. In a digital sample-based synth, the raw currency is good quality samples. Rather than see how many gigs they could fill with average samples, it feels like a proper RD team has put the kind of energy into the plugin that a big hardware synth manufacturer would have in the past. Something I feel that's been missing from the virtual synth world."

In talking about the EQ plugins they use, Tony from Above & Beyond says "...we were fond of Sonalksis EQs for a while..."

Above & Beyond use Melodyne, calling it "just incredible."

Above & Beyond give high praise to the FXpansion Strobe synth, calling it "as good as hardware."

"Installed the new UAD Studer A800 plugin in yet?Can't wait to get home to try it out."

"Historically, we've always keyed everything by ear, but Mixed In Key is a great alternative if you're on the road or not near a keyboard."

Jono tweets out his love for the UAD Pultec EQ1A whilst working on the channel mix for a kick drum in the box.

Above & Beyond say they use the Q series equalizers from Waves to "take out resonant frequencies in vocals."