Playback: You Send Us Your Music, and We Play it Back

Winner: Olivia Neutron-Bomb

Prakriti

I used a ton of UAD plugins (external chasis with 4x UAD-1), everything from 1176LN compressors on sitars, vocals and kick, LA-2A on Drum Buss, Pultec Pro on vocals drums and synths to the Precision Mastering Bundle for post mix compression, limiting and EQing. Plate 140s and Dreamverb handled the reverb duties and Cambridge came in for some precision cuts. I also used a slight touch of the Fairchild comp at mastering.

Synths were all reamped through an Apogee Rosetta and 2-610 preamps to give them more presence and punch in the mix. The 2-610 really lets a virtual synth settle into the mix more naturally alongside acoustic instruments, drums and vocals.

In fact I would venture to say that no plugins outside of my UAD-1s were used on this track, with the exception of Cubase's native Double Delay plugin and a free vinylizer plugin.