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8 mentions in 7 episodes.

Barry Cant Swim

1:28:08 · Life · named · medium confidence
“There's a plugin called Life, you can chuck any vinyl rip in there and it sort of automatically chops stuff”
O'Flynn uses the plugin Life to auto-chop vinyl rips into in-time percussion loops that avoid sounding like MIDI drums.
1:52:49 · Snapback · named · medium confidence
“I think it's called Snapback... you can add noises to any one-shot, mess with attack and release, it really helps the transients”
A recent favourite plugin for adding noise layers and transient body to drums and layered percussion.

Bonobo

1:01:34 · Knock · named · medium confidence
“There's actually a plugin I've started using now called Knock, which is kind of like a drum bus and it gives everything a bit of extra weight.”
Knock is a newer drum-bus plugin he now uses for weight and saturation on drum busses.

Charli XCX

33:42 · Concatenator · named · medium confidence
“It's using this weird plugin called Concatenator, and you can see we've loaded all these MS-20, Vermona, Prophet stuff”
AG Cook demos a concatenative-synthesis plugin that rebuilds drum loops from their own jam recordings by pitch-matching tiny fragments.

Djo

1:26:54 · Binaural dummy head microphone · named · medium confidence
“We had that binaural head… this thing called Virginia. It's a model head with 2 microphones in the ears.”
Electric Lady's binaural dummy head mic (nicknamed Virginia) was used for spatial effects like the door slam in 'Egg'.

Four Tet

15:18 · 4-track tape machine · named · medium confidence
“I bought a 4-track tape machine again. I bought a couple of them actually, and I was playing a lot of guitar and recording all sorts of stuff on these tape machines”
Kieran returned to cassette 4-track recorders (brand unnamed) to record guitar, reverse and slow sounds, generating raw material for the album 3 and the track Water Synth.

Joy Anon

40:45 · Visco · named · medium confidence
“the drums are this great plugin called Visco, lots of different layers of that”
Visco provides all the layered drums on Like You Used To, praised for hands-on, randomisable, time-stretched drum takes.

The Favours

1:22:35 · The Fiddle · named · medium confidence
“Yeah, it's called The Fiddle... Listen to this plugin.”
The sampled fiddle instrument used to mock up the Moonshine solo before PJ Cartwright played it.