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The Drum Mix Essentials Black Friday deal is 62% off at $49 until Nov 22, 2026, on Black Rooster Audio's bundle of four plugins for mixing drums: Edelweiss`72, KH-COMP1, VEQ-1P and Magnetite.
It works as a drum mix signal chain in one bundle. Gate and clean up, compress, EQ, then saturate, with a plugin for each stage.
Edelweiss`72 is a channel strip. Black Rooster Audio says it is aimed at demanding professionals and built to hold its own against well-known SSL-style channel plugins.
Its first stage handles dynamic expansion, which you can use to clear crosstalk from a multitrack drum session. Set the threshold so the target signal stays clearly audible.
KH-COMP1 is a levelling amplifier made with mix engineer and producer Koen Heldens. His ideas on process timing, channel linking and sidechain filtering shaped the design, and the maker calls it the best levelling amplifier it has built to date.
On drums, the suggested use is on individual tracks and on the drum bus, to tighten the groove.
VEQ-1P is a program EQ inspired by a famous studio equalizer. Its filter network allows boost and cut on the same shelf frequency at once.
The maker suggests trying the "Pultec-Trick" on a bass drum for more definition. You can use it on single tracks or the bus to shape shiny highs, punchy mids and sweet bass.
Magnetite is a tape recorder emulation. The recording gain knob sets how much saturation and warmth you add.
Black Rooster Audio recommends it as the first insert in a chain, as if the signal were recorded to tape. You can move it elsewhere for creative effects.
The maker's workflow starts with the shells and the multitrack session: expand with Edelweiss`72 to remove crosstalk. Then compress each instrument track with KH-COMP1 to limit overshoots and narrow the amplitude.
Next comes EQ on shells, overheads and room mics with the VEQ-1P. For a more surgical approach, the Edelweiss`72 EQ section is the alternative.
Magnetite finishes the drum bus with saturation.
The plugins use real-time SPICE-type, component-based circuit simulation. Black Rooster Audio says this covers audio transformers, tube stages and passive filter networks from the original circuits.
Oversampling adjusts automatically to your session's sample rate, which the maker says saves CPU while keeping aliasing low. The code is SSE2 optimised, and the interfaces support HighDPI and Retina displays.
Yes. The Drum Mix Essentials Black Friday deal is 62% off at $49 and ends Nov 22, 2026. It covers Black Rooster Audio's bundle of Edelweiss`72, KH-COMP1, VEQ-1P and Magnetite.
Drum Mix Essentials holds four Black Rooster Audio plugins: the Edelweiss`72 mixing channel strip, the KH-COMP1 levelling amplifier, the VEQ-1P vintage program EQ and the Magnetite tape emulation.
On Mac you need a 64-bit host that supports VST, VST3, AU or AAX. On Windows the formats are VST, VST3 or AAX. Mac systems include Apple Silicon M1/M2 support, with macOS 10.9 or newer required.
The maker's workflow expands tracks with Edelweiss`72 to remove crosstalk, compresses with KH-COMP1, shapes tone with the VEQ-1P, then puts Magnetite on the drum bus for tape saturation.
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