Black Octopus Sound

Making of a Monster – The Black Octopus Documentary film

Black Octopus Sound is proud to present Making of a monster: The Leviathan story.

This film gives an intimate look into the perils of starting a sample pack company from scratch, building a sustainable living in the music industry, as well as the blood-sweat-tears that went into making the iconic product line Leviathan.

  • Top 10 Must Have Packs of 2021

    We have so many packs here at Black Octopus Sound it is literally impossible to narrow this down to a top 10 packs list. But alas, it is the trend… it is expected.. and therefore I will give you my personal *and unbiased* opinion of the must have packs we have released so far this […]

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  • Multiband Compression Tutorial – Working The Ratio For Smooth Mixes

    Steve from Black Octopus Sound shares a multiband compression technique used to smooth out the high end on a vocal track.

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  • Going Deep with Acoustics – Interview with Matt Davis

    One of the hardest things for any engineer or producer to get right isn’t the mix, its not even the music… it is the acoustics of the room they are sitting in. It’s a no brainer that this is one of the most important and crucial aspects of knowing what you are hearing and in […]

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  • 10 Amazing VST Synthesizers

    10 Amazing VST Synthesizers IMAGE-LINE HARMOR Image-line Harmor is a very unique synthesizer capable of incredible sound design possibilities.   At the heart of the synth is an additive resynthesis engine, meaning you can load your own samples into Harmor and they will be resynthesized and converted into ‘partials’ which will give you much more […]

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