Seth Firkins

In this breakdown of Seth's mix on Future's song Draco. Seth states "The chain on the aux is Auto-Tune, going into Avid’s Extra Long Delay and then into the D-Verb. People were tripping and speculating about the reverb I used on his voice on DS2 which they said was so amazing, but it was just the generic Pro Tools D-Verb plug-in. People talk shit about factory plug-ins. There’s tons of other stuff out there, but give me good old D-Verb any time, and I can make it sound good. With bundled plug-ins it’s all about how you use them."

Seth reveals he uses the McDSP AC202 as apart of Future's vocal chain. In this article Seth states that the "AC202 takes the lower parts of Future’s performance and sweetens them and brings them up top. The trick with the AC202 is to set it to Auto, in which case it almost functions as a vocal rider. It also adds a really analogue, headroom feel. It doesn’t sound harsh and will duck things just enough."

In this photograph you can see an instance of Antares Auto-Tune 5 open in Seth's session. A widely popular edition of Auto-Tune that engineers always come back to despite multiple updates since its release. This plugn used to be an essential in the engineer's collection.

In this breakdown of Seth's mix on Future's song Draco. Seth reveals that FabFilter’s Pro-Q2 was used to notch out a resonance on the 808 track.

In this article, Seth states "“Future’s intro vocal has the Waves MetaFlanger, for extra effect." He has used this plugin for vocals in the Intro of the track.

In this article, Seth reveals the usage of the Mod Delay III on Future's vocal chain on the song "Draco".

In this article, Seth reveals that he uses Waves De-Esser on his vocal tracks, to tame sibilance, in every project he works on.

In the article, Seth reveals that as apart of his vocal tracks on every project he works on he uses the Renaissance Compressor. Seth said “After that there's the Waves Renaissance Compressor, with which I smooth everything back down into a nice, squeezed waveform, and it’s only after that that I put on effects."

In this article, when discussing his vocal chain he uses on every project he works on, Seth states "Finally, the Waves L1 limiter enhances the vocals further. The L1 has a very different architecture from the other maximisers. It really is just bringing out the top end, to make the vocals stand out in the mix a little bit more."

When discussing Mastering, Seth states he'll "throw on an SSL G-compressor plug-in to tame some of the peaks"