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Essential lo-fi tools of the trade

Throughout the tutorials in this feature, we’ll show you how to get a lo-fi sound using just a DAW and plugins, the advantage being that you’ll be able to backwards-engineer what makes something low-fidelity, then recreate the aesthetic straight away using what you already own.

However, using hardware – the more budget, the better – is by far the best way to

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