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Once you've set your bands, you can wield the powerful Exclusion Gain control, to cut or boost the entire signal that falls outside the zones - this is key to isolating or removing parts of a complete track. A zone can be rectangular or elliptical - we found the latter to be more useful for isolating parts in a clean, natural manner. They are getting harder to find lately, but just recently I happened across a plugin that will no doubt serve to be a great educational tool for many, and may even help to make improvements to finished mixes. Hear the QuikQuak MashTactic in action We also wouldn't say no to input and output level meters either, as the plug-in can have a huge impact on signal level.

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I wrote all that in one sentence, but think about what that means First, I consider MashTactic to be an amazing analysis tool that will help me to diagnose issues with mixes, and also illustrate what the issues are to the mix engineer I can literally show them a picture - this tool actually lets you visualize a stereo mix! If you're expecting to pull out elements from a full mix and have them sound as if you'd solo'ed a track, well, you're going to be disappointed.

Maybe your mix is too centre weighted, or maybe it has too much ambience?

QuikQuak MashTactic VST V1.01 Incl KeyGen X86.x64

Pros Fast, effective and easy to use, useful transient controls and visual interface, perfectly calibrated ellipse setting.

You can extract any type of sound, not just vsh, though the quality of results depends a lot on the original material and the sound you're trying to extract, so you have to try it and see. Second, I would use this for audio forensics work. It would be a godsend to have the controls including solo controls for each of the eight zones lined up vertically and laid out side by side.

You draw in a range for each zone: Each zone's signal is split into an attack phase called 'onset' and a sustain section.

However, the results are often highly usable in a mix context, and it's great for isolating traditional-sounding samples with a minimum of hassle. Lastly, there's the mysterious Frame Averaging control, which influences how the transient detection responds. In this latter capacity, the onset and sustain gain controls excel, allowing you to smooth the transients of percussive sounds eg, snares.

A zone can be rectangular ,ashtactic elliptical - we found the latter to be more useful for isolating parts in a clean, natural manner.

QuikQuak releases MashTactic mashup tool

There's a great video on the QuikQuak website that shows this remarkable tool in action. Cons Doesn't give perfect results, gain control response not ideal. That alone is quite amazing and it makes this tool well worth a look, but as a mastering engineer, I really like this tool for its visualization capabilities.

It does tend to produce a pumping effect, similar to sidechaining, but this can actually sound cool when the vocal is placed over another strong beat - and the effect can be smoothed over using compression.

Product Review: QuikQuak's "MashTactic" audio plugin

It also lets you see your mix in stereo! Vt also wouldn't say no to input and output level meters either, as the plug-in can have a huge impact on signal level.

To help you position your zones, the graph displays dancing dots showing at which frequencies and stereo positions the signal is active - this is actually very useful. For example, you can reduce unwanted percussion to help further isolate a vocal part. Finally, having tabs for easily selecting which zone you'd like to move or resize would be handy.

MashTactic is great for isolating vocals from the rest of a vxt. Overall, MashTactic is a well executed and impressive plug-in that gives useful results and is easy to use and understand. That way you could tweak the lot at once, adjusting for any interactions between them. As an audio mastering engineer, I can easily see two masytactic uses for this tool.

Both can have their levels adjusted, and the onset length can be set, letting you either remove, isolate or boost the transients. Isolated incidents MashTactic is great for isolating vocals from the rest of a track. Scrolling spectrograms can do that too, but only by showing you separate spectrograms for each channel.

This tool will help show you what and where the issues are. Our Verdict If you've ever wanted to extract a sample from a mix, this would have helped. Once you've set your bands, you can wield the powerful Exclusion Gain control, to cut or boost the entire signal that falls outside the zones - this is key to isolating or removing parts of a complete track.

They are getting harder to find lately, but just recently I happened across a plugin that will no doubt serve to be a great educational tool for many, and may even help to make improvements to finished mixes.

Software such as Ableton Live makes it easy to mash together songs of disparate key and tempo to create a novel new track - we're talkin' 'bout mash-ups.