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From Amp Sim to Tone Wizard: Axiom V2’s Levels Of Details
Unlock the Power of Axiom V2: Your Tone, Your Way! Axiom V2 isn’t just a multi-effects processor – it’s a versatile beast with layers of sonic potential. Dive in at … Read More |
The Ultimate Guide To Modern Metal Guitar Tones with Axiom / Destructor
What makes modern metal guitar tones so specific? How to find your way and dial such tones with Blue Cat’s Axiom or Destructor? Here are a couple of tips as … Read More |
Tone Maps: A New Approach To Sound Design And Tone Control
Initially designed to navigate presets in 2D and create new guitar amp tones in Destructor and Axiom by morphing between presets (See this tone explorer video for more details), tone maps … Read More |
The Morphing Amps Of Axiom & Destructor
Did you know that you can morph between amp simulations in Axiom and Destructor? Also, have you ever tried to drive lead synth tones thru a guitar amp? Check out … Read More |
Destructor: A Distortion Plug-In For Mixing And Sound Design
Blue Cat’s Destructor is an advanced distortion plug-in that not only works well for guitars and bass, but is also of great help for mixing and sound design, thanks to … Read More |
How To Load & Use Custom Impulse Responses In Axiom & Destructor
Now that we can load custom IR’s inside Blue Cat’s Axiom (Amp + internal EQ), we thought it was a good idea to write a short tutorial on how to … Read More |
How To Load Impulse Responses (IR) In Axiom, Destructor or Free Amp
Did you know that you can load impulse responses in any of our three amp simulation plug-ins for guitar and bass? Axiom, Free Amp and Destructor are indeed all based … Read More |
8 Tips To Get The Best Guitar Tone With Plug-Ins
We live in a world with many guitarists, tons of tools and a lot of options to record our beloved guitars. Yet I feel we spend more time practicing than … Read More |
Understanding Blue Cat’s Destructor As An Amp Modeling Tool
Blue Cat’s Destructor is a bit different from your usual amp simulation plug-in. Here is video that explains how to understand how Blue Cat’s Destructor works and how to set … Read More |
Dave Pensado: How To Make Bass Musical And Dirty With Destructor
In this video tutorial, legendary Dave Pensado shows how he uses Blue Cat’s Destructor, our unique distortion plug-in, to make bass sound musical and dirty within a mix. Check it … Read More |
Martin Miller Tries Out Axiom
In this video, Martin Miller checks out the new Axiom plug-in for guitar & bass and tells you everything about it and the built-in Late Replies delay plug-in. He plays … Read More |
PatchWork + Destructor + Late Replies – The Ultimate Guitar Combo?
[Edit – all these tools are now available inside the Axiom application and plugin] Did you know that as a guitarist, with Blue Cat’s PatchWork as a host application (or … Read More |
Mixing Bass Guitar With Blue Cat’s Destructor
While Destructor is a great tool to get the right tone for musicians playing an instrument, it is also a convenient mixing tool when the DI tracks are available. It … Read More |
Blue Cat’s Destructor: Distortion On A 808-Style Kick
Distortion is a great way to enhance low frequency content, adding harmonics in upper parts of the spectrum. It can be controlled with a bit of EQ and works very … Read More |
Destructor In the Studio – Part 4: Overdrive!
For the last episode of the “Destructor In the Studio” series, we’ll get into overdrive! Listen to guitars being recorded thru the “Highway To Rock Preset”, and see how the … Read More |
Mixing A Song with Blue Cat’s Destructor : Acoustic Guitar
More than “just” a polymorphic distortion tool, Blue Cat’s Destructor is actually a full-featured channel strip plug-in that can be used for mixing, as shown in this video tutorial. Blue … Read More |
Mixing Vocals With Destructor
Did you know that Blue Cat’s Destructor is much more than a distortion and amp simulation plug-in? It can actually be used as a full-featured channel strip plug-in for mixing. … Read More |
Destructor In the Studio – Part 3: Blending Guitar Parts In the Mix
Eli is back in the studio with Blue Cat’s Destructor, adding this time some more dirt to blend together two guitar parts, recorded “straight into the box”. >discuss this topic … Read More |
Destructor In the Studio – Part 2: Crunch Guitar Tones
It’s time for a new episode of our Destructor In The Studio series! After exploring clean sounds last week, Eli is now adding some crunchiness to guitar parts to get … Read More |
Destructor In the Studio – Part 1 : Clean Guitar Tones
We are glad to unleash the first episode of a video series about Blue Cat’s Destructor in the studio: Eli Krantzberg will show you how he uses Destructor to record and mix … Read More |
Enhancing Clean Guitars With Destructor
More than a distortion tool, Blue Cat’s Destructor is also an amp simulation plug-in that works great for clean guitar tones. This video shows how you can use it to … Read More |
Guitar Tone Matching With Blue Cat’s Destructor – EVH
There are many ways to match the tone of your favorite guitar players with your own gear. Here is Hans Van Even’s method, using Blue Cat’s Destructor to mimic Eddie Van … Read More |
Destructor Show & Reveal
Check out this new video about the Destructor plug-in that gives you a short tour of the plug-in in the context of electronic music. Producer Adam Pollard aka Multiplier shows … Read More |
Side Chain Dynamic Distortion
In the following tutorial, producer Joshua Casper shows Blue Cat’s Destructor exclusive shape dynamics settings and explores the side chain capabilities of the plug-in. Yes, you can do side chain distortion! … Read More |
In-Depth FREE Destructor Tutorial, and more!
Our partners at Groove3 have released an awesome in-depth tutorial for Blue Cat’s Destructor: all features of the plug-in are covered, from the straightforward easy-mode to the most advanced side chain … Read More |
Blue Cat’s Destructor for Electronic Music
To follow up on the dark side of the Destructor, we are glad to interview today Sink, who was part of the beta testing team for Blue Cat’s Destructor and … Read More |
The Dark Side of the Destructor: Q&A
Our new plug-in, Blue Cat’s Destructor, will be soon available. So we thought you would be interested in looking at the “dark side of the plug-in” and know more about how it came … Read More |
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