What DAW are you using?

Also, some widening plugins do narrowing too. IIRC S1 does this too.

So all Waves compressors are selling at $29 this week. Are there any recent ones which stand out? I own C1 and would often use it in split mode, but overall I demoed some of their compressors a while back (CLA collection and SSL) and actually was underwhelmed. They all seemed to have the same kind o...

You probably shouldn't care about such things, but happy birthday nonetheless!

Well, yeah, it's not uncommon to me to drop what I've been doing and start from the rough. But more of what I'm talking about is incorporating something which is cool from the rough, but is also "wrong". Sometimes it's easy, e.g. if a part is out of balance in the rough but it makes for a ...

It is often said that the rough mix is often fresher, more alive, has more impact. And sometimes it's fair to stop trying to beat it and just use the rough. But I found that at times what made the rough cool are things that are "wrong". E.g. additional parts with unusual instruments often ...

John Eppstein wrote: ↑May 17th, 2018, 8:49 pm It never fails to amaze me to what great lengths people will go to avoid doing things the simplest and most obvious way....

The simplest way would be to get things right at the source. I have near zero control over that.

those things seek to internally rebalance a track... they're not compressors per se. Yes, sort of creating automation for each drum hit. That way they avoid "compression" sound. Compressing reversed signals also avoids this sound largely. Does mess with the decay of the drum though, but s...

I suppose my thinking is along the lines of: if you don't want it to sound compressed, don't compress it. Yes, but sometimes it's just not played and/or recorded properly and automating everything just takes too much time. There are also things like Sound Radix Drum Leveller and Melda MDrummer whic...

Just so I get this straight, are you saying that you reverse the signal --> apply compression --> reverse the signal back to normal? Yes, exactly. Also, would the 'standard' way of doing this be to keep the same settings that you set for the track playing normally, or would you adjust stuff like th...

yllis s'ti kniht I .yletinifed tsoM It is certainly not a "vibe" thing and the compression can only be set by meters this way. But it moves the compression artifacts (which are often desirable) to the other parts of the signal, where they are not as apparent. Drums produce waveforms which...

So there is this trick when you reverse a track and then apply compression on it. Do you ever use it? Seems gimmicky but it seems to provide some taming of the dynamics of the track while preserving the transients better. Although it produces some kind of "swelling" sounds on the backgroun...

BTW, with the code SUPER29 you can get them for $29.
Cannot pass this at that price

I have tried PRS and also Bias AMP 2. Indeed, Bias AMP 2 seems more flexible and more realistic as well. Uses much more CPU though. I feel that the "amp" tone is comparable in quality between the two, but the cab emulation is much better on Bias AMP. And Bias AMP 2 is IMO miles ahead of Bi...

Did you try them? I only listened to youtube demos so far and I quite liked what I heard.
Will try to check them out this weekend. Hope the intro price still stays.

Ordered yesterday and received info that the campaign was successful.
Looking forward to reading it!

And another contender arrives
https://blackroosteraudio.com/pluginsto ... veq1p.html

I have PSP NobleQ. I think is quite good, but I'm much more into the same approach as Cirrus , so I use pretty much the same EQ everywhere. Also, if you really want the character and can tolerate CPU/memory hit and latency look onto Acoustica Purple P-1. Not everything they do works for me, especial...

Something I found since I started using Harrison Mixbus is that there's something incredible liberating about having the same built in EQ on every channel. I'm sure a few people here will be thinking "no duh" :lol: ... I totally get what you mean! I set up REAPER template with the same ch...

unitymusic wrote: ↑April 4th, 2018, 9:18 am I know there's no "best plugin", but I really miss the Abbey Road stuff. I still haven't found anything to really replace the Mastering Pack and RS124, and I had to stop using them a few years ago.

Didn't Waves release something in the same style?

That said, Echoboy $49 Yeah, nice offer! I managed to grab it for this price on a BF few years ago. But I actually not using it that much, I bought this https://www.tritik.com/products/tkdelay/ when it was cheaper. Nice delay with really straightforward interface. Easier to setup for me than Echobo...

I think it’s always a a question of “is his doing what I wanted, and needed, it to do?” And not getting caught up in an endless game of ‘can I beat it, or ‘I wonder what THIS would do’ Indeed. But some people seem to need more choices and some less. And I wonder if there's narrower "operating ...

Bob Olhsson (if I am not mistaken) mentioned that often times he would go through several compressor options for a particular track and that there's no plugin that will "just work" all the times. He also said that it was not a thing with analog gear. Now my memory could play tricks on me, ...

I did that, sending separately kick, snare, and toms. I ignored cymbals.

weedywet wrote: ↑March 16th, 2018, 11:37 pm It’s worth $29

But I RARELY use it.

What are the typical scenarios when you do?
Is it only when you need to make a quick mix and the vocalist is too dynamic so usual compressor won't cut it?

Do you use it?
On sale now for $29.

Adele proved that you can still sell records if they are good enough. Currently, there's a band over here which generated a huge following in a little more than a year. They already gather huge crowds, got onto a national TV etc. There's nothing original about their records. But songs are ridiculou...

Every single choice should be on a musical level. I think our problem today is too many choices based on fashion or hero worship and not enough actual mastery of an instrument. Fingers have a greater effect on sound than any recording gear. I agree. But all I can do is slightly push musicians with ...

Totally Whatever “fashion” is involved is already built in to the song and production on a musical level. I don't know. I think we are arguing on semantics. For example, a band's choice of a guitar sound -- is it a musical level? This choice is definitely a thing of fashion, i.e. it is totally depe...

All you can do is try to make it sound good and balance AS YOU ARE HEARING IT. I agree. But the general sound is as much a thing of fashion as of taste IMO. It is a thing of education to some degree. And with that, if one has a reasonably "right" sounding monitors and listens to a lot of ...

other people in the room No way I would let those people into my bedroom! Now seriously, when I was talking about learning it was more in a sense of "getting used to" the monitors. And if monitors sound completely wrong in the first place there's probably no way around it. But if they are...