Slate Digital FG-X 2 | Full Demo and Review

Peering behind the curtain of the dark art of mastering, Slate Digital has just released FG-X 2: a mastering suite with the tools you need to get your music ready for release. Setting the opinions of boffins and naysayers aside, you might be able to master your own music — or start your career in music mastering. Mastering is the final step in music, the Photoshop polish to a well-composed photo, or the presentation of a Michelin-star restaurant meal. Without these things, the product feels sub-par. Slate Digital has been in the audio game for quite some time with their game-changing plugins like Trigger (you can use an audio source to trigger one or several samples) and their emulations of the studio icons from Neve, SSL, Empirical Labs, and many more. Steven Slate and expert algorithm engineer Fabrice Gabriel have just given their original FG-X mastering plugin a much-needed update: the FG-X 2 mastering suite. We tested it out in the studio. #fgx2