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Fully fired, start to finish.
One rough rehearsal song, from raw tracks to a finished master with Kiln.
Start to finish: the written guideEvery plugin in mix order, each chapter tied to the boxes on Firing's checklist. PDF, 21 pages. DownloadEach plugin, one at a time
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Shape each part
Tone and colour
Space and texture
Kiln · Track prep
Kiln Slake
Bring it back to life. First on every track. Slake brings a quiet recording up to a healthy level, then clears out the hum, rumble and hiss that came up with it.
Kiln · Vocal gate
Kiln Damper
Drums out, singer in. A vocal gate that rides like a fader. Route in the drums and it learns how they bleed into the vocal mic, so it opens for the singer, not the snare.
Kiln · Pitch correction
Kiln Caliper
Tuned to the band. Pitch correction that listens to your guitars and bass to find the key, can follow the chords they're holding, and leaves breaths and whispers alone.
Kiln · Drums
Kiln Wedge
Drums that hit. One strip for every drum. Pick the piece and Wedge re-voices its EQ, cleanup and compression around it, so a snare and an overhead each get the moves they need.
Kiln · Snare
Kiln Coil
Wound tight. A snare fattener on one dial. Turn up Fat and the snare gets thick and loud-feeling while its level stays put.
Kiln · Bass
Kiln Foot
The ground the song stands on. Amp voices from a clean DI to full fuzz, blended so the low end never thins out. Foot keeps every note's bottom even and makes the bass heard on a phone.
Kiln · Guitars
Kiln Grog
All the grit. None of the pain. Amp voices for DI guitars, or straight shaping for tracks already through an amp. Grog keeps heavy guitars big and tight, and only reins them in when they bite.
Kiln · Vocals
Kiln Lip
The voice, up front. A complete vocal chain in one window: gate, de-ess, tone, two stages of compression, warmth and a built-in double. Start from a style preset and adjust from there.
Kiln · EQ
Kiln Rib
Shape the profile. Four big knobs when you want speed, a live curve when you want detail, and three moves that fix the common problems for you.
Kiln · Tube warmth
Kiln Cone
Heat, measured. Tube saturation with the controls of real hardware: four preamps, up to four tubes, bias, sag, and the slight mismatch between channels. Warmth reads out in firing cones.
Kiln · Restore
Kiln Ember
Breathe on it. For tracks that went flat. Ember finds the attacks in the lows, mids and highs and lifts only those, leaving everything steady alone.
Kiln · Reverb
Kiln Hearth
Space, kept warm. Five rooms, one lush engine. Hearth draws the shape of the tail as you set it, ducks out of the vocal's way, and can hold a chord forever.
Kiln · Chorus
Kiln Wheel
Five choruses, one wheel. From the shimmering '80s pedal to string-machine ensemble to natural double-tracking, each mode with its own voices and motion.
Kiln · Shoegaze
Kiln Raku
A wall of sound on one dial. Built for shoegaze. Pick the source, turn Smoke, and Raku builds the wall: shimmering wash, tape echo, dense fuzz, swells, and a pocket that keeps the vocal clear.
Kiln · Mix bus
Kiln Glaze
The final coat. The last plugin on the mix: bus compression, low-end control, tone, tube colour and loudness to streaming targets, with fair A/B built in.
Kiln · Mix analyzer
Kiln Firing
From rough mix to finished. Unbiased ears and a path to the end. Firing listens to each group and the whole song, tells you in plain words what to fix and which Kiln tool to reach for, then walks you through a checklist that ticks itself as the mix comes together.