FOUNDER
Rory Browne
Rory Browne founded Fat Berry DSP and leads its team of DSP engineers. Rory attended SAE Institute from age 17 and has worked in a recording studio.
Background
- Attended SAE Institute from age 17.
- Has worked in a recording studio.
- Has played piano since age six and guitar since age 14.
- Has spent the last three years developing the Fat Berry DSP catalogue.
Rory founded Fat Berry DSP, a trading name of Fusia Tech Ltd. The website currently lists 51 active plug-ins. Product pages state the actual release requirements rather than assuming all formats are available.
Writing and product references
The guides below describe production techniques and the documented features of our own tools. An explanatory article is distinct from an executed benchmark or host compatibility report. Where we publish measurements, the supporting method and results must be identified.
Production and setup guides
- Gain staging and level matching: hear the change you made
- Compression without losing the transient
- Choose saturation by what it does to the recording
- Drum programming that supports the groove
- Delay throws and rhythmic echoes that leave space
- Your first session with the free Fat Berry tools
- Free EQ and delay tools versus a dedicated tape plug-in
- Ape Tape vs Mastering Tape Suite: choose the controls for your job
- Static EQ, manual edits or a de-esser for a vocal?
- Choosing a limiter for a streaming master
- VST3 vs Audio Unit: choose the format your host loads
- Choosing Fat Berry tools for Ableton Live 12
- Choosing Fat Berry Audio Units for Logic Pro
- Channel strip or individual plug-ins?
- Build a part with the free Fat Berry instruments
- Wavetable aliasing and oversampling: what to compare
- Tape saturation, explained
- Spring, plate or church: choosing a reverb by physics
- True-peak limiting for streaming
- Installing VST3 and Audio Unit plug-ins properly
- De-essing without lisping
- Wavetable synthesis, the useful basics