Full songwriting template in the style of Counterparts: Tight & punchy drums, gnarly bass tone, juicy rhythm guitars and beautiful leads. Using free plugins & amp sims!

DAWs:

• Cubase 8 and above (Elements, Artist and Pro)
• Reaper
• Logic Pro X
• Studio One
• Ableton Live
• FL Studio

Features

This template includes:

• Mix-Ready drums (Soundblind Drums 'Counterkit' by Counterparts drummer Kyle Brownlee)
• Custom Mix-Ready Drum Map for easy drum programming
• Rhythm, Clean, Lead and Bass guitar tones with some of the best free amp sims by ML Sound Lab and STL Tones
• In-depth processing with stock and free plugins only
• Master bus processing for glue, punch and commercial loudness
• The DI tracks and whole arrangement of the demo song: 'Unwavering Vow' by Counterparts, recorded by the incredible @Zainmhz  and myself. So you can listen to the individual elements of the song and analyse how they add up to the finished mix.

Description

I am very happy to present you: the Mix-Ready Counterparts Songwriting Template!

Being a fan of Counterparts for years, I always wanted to have my productions sounding like their records. I tried different drum libraries, but never got close enough to be satisfied. When Kyle Brownlee (drummer of Counterparts) announced his very first drum library "Counterkit", I was excited like a little child right before christmas.

What can I say? This drum library absolutely slams. It makes good use of the built in Kontakt processing and with a little tweaking I got it to sound just like I always wanted. I reached out to @Zainmhz  who is doing some great covers of Counterparts songs on his YouTube channel. He hooked me up with his DI tracks for the song "Unwavering Vow" and I put together this songwriting template that I am really proud of.

I wanted this template to be easily accessible - so you won't need any third party software (except the Counterkit drums). This Mix-Ready template is using stock and free plugins for mixing & mastering + the free amp sims by ML Sound Lab and STL Tones. Listen to the sound demo to hear the template in action!

Speed up your workflow with this Mix-Ready songwriting template!

Sound Demos

Sound Demo:

Requirements

You need:

• Kontakt 6 or 7 (free or full version)
• Soundblind Drums "Counterkit"
• Stock plugins of your DAW
• ML Sound Lab Amped Roots (free)
• TSE BOD v3.0.0 bass plugin (free)
• STL Ignite Emissary bundle (free)

The different DAW versions are using different plugins. Here you can see which plugins you need for your DAW:

Customizations

If you like the setup of this Mix-Ready template, but you want to use other plugins (different amp sims or mixing plugins...) then feel free to send an e-mail.