MusicRadar

• Review

Summary

Clearly, EZmix is intended to make complex processing more accessible and quicker to achieve, and this it does well. While you still need a decent ear to get the best from it, it's far harder to make a mess of things than it is with conventional plug-in chains. It's also handy for anyone who needs to mix in a hurry or make rough mixes on the move (it's light on CPU, too –-great for laptops).

However, if you can't find the effect you want, or you want to adjust EZmix beyond the limits of its trio of faders, there's a chance you'll either end up frustrated or reach for other plug-ins to achieve your goal.

Hear what you can achieve using EZmix:

1. Snare: spinning through various snare presets, adjusting shape and where available the blend. First, three gates then three EQ/compression combinations, snare plus reverb, gated snare with transient, snare EQ, then snare EQ/gate/transient combo.

2. Picked electric guitar: working through guitar presets, starting with three acoustic presets (the third has the reverb), then a large scale ambient preset, two chorus types, one with a tape simulator and EQ, then delay, reverb 1, reverb 2 and slap delay, finishing with comp/EQ and straightforward EQ.

3. Beats loop: Hear some of the more creative effects on a basic drum loop. Distorted delay, distorted verb, basic distortion, crushed, delayed, cassette, radio, tape.