About us
Who the tabarnak is Tabarnak Audio?
The philosophy behind Tabarnak Audio is simple: create plugins that are easy to use, fun, and irreverent without ever compromising on sound quality.
Tabarnak Audio was founded by Etienne Tremblay, a mixing and mastering engineer and creator of La Machine à Mixer, one of the first French-speaking YouTube channels dedicated to audio mixing. For more than a decade, he's been helping musicians, producers, and audio engineers make sense of mixing and get better results without making things more complicated than they need to be. Tabarnak Audio takes that same philosophy and puts it into plugins.
Why Tabarnak Audio?
A great mix shouldn't depend on how many knobs you turn. The best results often happen when you can make a decision quickly, hear what it does, and move on, without getting lost in a sea of unnecessary controls.
Fewer parameters. Less bullshit. More music.
Does it sound better?
That's what Tabarnak Audio plugins are (almost) all about. You shouldn't need to understand everything happening under the hood to get a great result.
Turn a few knobs. Listen. Adjust to taste.
Sound.
Behind the ridiculous names, Québécois references, and other goofy stuff, there's a much more serious obsession. Every plugin is designed to be something you reach for because it sounds great and gets you where you want to go, fast.
Everything else is gravy.
Made in Québec. Cooked in France.
Tabarnak Audio is proudly Québécois. The name, the humor, the expressions, and even some of our plugin concepts come straight from a culture where a swear word can somehow be a noun, a verb, an adjective and apparently, a plugin company.
Now based in France, Etienne continues to develop Tabarnak Audio with one simple goal: make plugins that sound great, work fast, and are just stupid enough that you'll never forget their names.
Ridiculous plugins, serious sound.
Our first creation
Meet The Poutinizer
Cheese. Gravy. And probably more saturation than your doctor recommends.
The Poutinizer is the first plugin from Tabarnak Audio: a multiband compressor and saturator designed to quickly add weight, texture, and character to your tracks. No audio engineering degree required.
Add some Cheese. Pour on the Gravy. Serve hot.
What's cooking?
The Poutinizer is just the beginning. We've got more stupid ideas cooking, and the philosophy will stay the same: simple tools, great sound, and an interface that makes you smile.