About Integraudio
Most “plugin review” sites today are recycled spec sheets — press releases reworded, features listed without anyone touching the actual software. Integraudio started, and still runs, differently: every plugin, sample library, and piece of gear we cover gets installed, patched into a real DAW, and played with by a real producer before a word gets written.
No top-10 padding. No copy-pasted marketing claims. Just straight, hands-on verdicts on what’s actually worth your money — whether you’re setting up your first bedroom rig or running a full studio.
Where it started
Integraudio launched in 2020 as a blog for music producers and engineers hunting for tips, guides, tutorials, and honest reviews. It was founded by Viliam Sulek, who built the site around a simple idea: share real discoveries about great VST plugins, sounds, effects, hardware, and software — the kind of thing he’d tell a friend, not the kind of thing a manufacturer would pay for.
Vil has since moved on to other projects, but the standard he set stuck. He left the site in the hands of a team that keeps testing everything the same way he did — hands-on, honest, and unsponsored in its verdicts. That’s still the thing to know about Integraudio today: different writers, same rule — if we haven’t used it, we don’t write about it.
What you’ll find here
Integraudio covers the full stack of modern music production:
- Plugin reviews — compressors, EQs, reverb & delay, synths, instrument plugins, and full bundles, tested against real mixing and mastering scenarios
- Free plugin roundups — because not every producer has a AAA-studio budget
- DAW guides — Ableton, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Cubase, Pro Tools, Reaper, Bitwig
- Sound design & Kontakt libraries — for producers building original textures, not just presets
- Hardware — audio interfaces, studio monitors, preamps, synths & keyboards, guitar amps & pedals
- Platform-specific coverage most sites skip — including Linux audio production, where we cover tools like Vital, Surge XT, VCV Rack 2, and LSP Plugins that rarely get a mention elsewhere
- Genre-specific production guides — like shoegaze production techniques, alongside broader mixing and mastering tricks
Whether you’re a bedroom producer building your first template or a working engineer refining a signature sound, the goal is the same: give you a straight answer fast, backed by someone who actually used the thing.
Why trust our reviews
We test every plugin ourselves before writing about it. We’re upfront when a link is an affiliate link — supporting the site never changes the verdict a plugin gets. And when a piece of gear or software isn’t worth your money, we say so, even when it costs us a commission.
Meet the team
Berk Oztuna
Berk is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Istanbul, Turkey, who’s spent over ten years on guitar, handpan, and percussion. He started out as a teenager learning guitar and playing in bands, then found the handpan in 2016 — “I fell in love with the instrument the first time I heard it,” he says — and has since played streets, festivals, bars, and stages across multiple countries. Berk composes, records, and produces his own music, blending instruments and genres, and brings that same hands-on, exploratory ear to every plugin he reviews for Integraudio. You can hear his music on Spotify.
Jack Cockrell
Jack is a music producer, songwriter, mixing and mastering engineer, sound designer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist — “if it involves music, I’m into it.” He picked up guitar at age 7 and went full-time as a music freelancer after roughly a decade in the space, having also spent 6 years as a software developer, which shows up in how methodically he approaches gear and plugin testing.
His own output spans genres deliberately: pop/indie under the name Mauve Shores (written, recorded, mixed, and mastered solo), metal/alternative with his band Midnight Paradise, and LoFi Beats under Heavy Blink. Outside his own projects, he’s written and mixed pop records that charted in the UK Top 40 Spotify playlist, produced drum & bass remixes with over 2 million streams, and worked across live sound cleanup, event mixing, and score work. He’s currently juggling a death metal album and a teen-pop single at the same time — “I love the variety that comes with this work.” You can hear his own releases on Bandcamp.
Jack is deeply into gear — guitar pedals especially, though production pulled his obsession into EQs, compressors, and everything else. Outside music: hiking, terrariums, skateboarding, rugby, running, and assorted DIY/electronics projects.
Got something worth testing?
If you’re a plugin developer, sample library maker, or gear manufacturer with something you think deserves an honest, hands-on review — or if you’re a producer interested in contributing — get in touch. We read everything, and we still only write about what we’ve actually tried.