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17 minutes ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

What is Pink Floyd? A plugin company?

He's a singer.  He rides the gravy train.

I'm ess-my-pants excited about this.  

My biggest beef with API compression has always been how it destroys my low end.  I'd always use it in parallel because on this, sometimes with a non-lin eq as a crossover of sorts to make things work.  

*points stern Techno Viking finger at unprocessed wimpy drums*
"I'm comin' for you...."

10 minutes ago, mibby said:

-- OR --

You can buy Michael Brauer's unit for $8500! (I was unfamiliar with the style of compressor and Google came up with this!)

https://reverb.com/item/64236080-michael-brauer-gates-sta-level-tube-compressor-limiter

 

I don't believe it's a Gates/Collins/Retro unit they modeled.  The pic on their site looks like a Fairchild 670 clone (the Analogue Tube version I believe).  

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

Yeah, it's just this side of too small on my 1920x1080 monitors. Like much of the PA line, kinda overdue for some UI scaling. I just snagged the SPL Vitalizer and it's on the other side of too small. Tiny tiny.

The Amek does allow this.  

I like the GML, I mean, Amek eq.  I also like this GML, I mean, Amek compressor.  

Bit of a learning curve, just like the 8900, I mean, Amek Mastering Compressor.  

The detectors really are helpful.  

#1.  Learn ins and outs of all my modules in my modular rig.  Some are straight forward and I already know them.  Some (I'm looking at you NerdSeq) are much more involved and I need to make the time to learn them.  And some I just use very simplistically. 

#2.  Use said modular rig for even more audio that's actually released and not just some pbr sippin echopark soundcloudonly dorkjerkery.  

#3.  Get a set together with the rig involved.  I have something specific in mind.  

#4.  Sell some gear.  For really reals.  

#5.  Turn ear-breaks into ear-walk around the blocks for a little bit of exercise.  

#6.  Work less hours this year.  I worked very hard and very stupid over extended periods of time in 2022.  I'd like to reduce both.  I wasn't to blame for most of this.  

#7. Finalize the home studio updates, including upgrades to my current immersive setup.  

#8. Alphabetize my vinyl.  

#9. Talk Fleer into WUP.  

I got this a while back for more.  I use it often for the classic Juno sweeps a lot.  We compared it to the Roland cloud and preferred it.  I sent my 106 off for service (voice chip, grrr) and ended up selling it.  This will do.  

The fact it also adds chorus to Amp Room, and a bunch of modules for Modular is a bigger deal to me than most.  I use Modular a lot, I just wish it had as many modules available as something like VCV.  

Now... if Atlantis would go on sale for the same price.... 

 🎂

Arctic White

Butterscotch Blonde

Link to beatlab:  
 

Beat Lab

Comes out to $62.23.  

I own all their stuff.  

rabble.

I'll play.  

Reverb: Seventh Heaven Pro.  Honorable mention, Altiverb.  
Track Compressor: Arouser.  
Bus Compressor: Magnum K.  
Multiband Compressor: FabFilter Pro-Q 3 (with dynamic settings engaged).  
Precision EQ: Metric Halo Sontec.  HM: SPL PQ.  
Character EQ: Hammer DSP.  HM:  Maag Eq4 (for the Air band...  not sure if this counts)
Delay: Echofarm.  Don't care, I like it.  HM: Echoboy.
Chorus: UAD Dimension D (the best for bass width).  HM's:  TC Stereo Chorus Flanger, UAD Dytronics TriChorus (stupid good on E Pianos).  
Pitch Shifter: Serato Pitch N Time.
Basic Filter: Soundtoys FilterFreak2.  
Glitcher/Stutterer: Stutter Edit 2
Limiter: Massey L2007.  
Stereo Imager: Mathew Lane's Dr. Ms.  
Amp sim: Line 6 Helix Native.
Vocoder: Izotope VocalSynth.  
Saturation: Softube Overstayer.  HM: Phil's Cascade.  
Restoration: I'd say, Izotope suite because it depends on the type of restoring, but since we are limited to one, I'd say DeClipper.  I fix bad edits with this all the time and the oddball lip smack (which I use the vocal version for but the regular version can do wonders here as well).  
Clipper: Massey Golden Master.  

Bonus round. As time goes on, you are allowed to expand with utilities and combos:

Utility: VocAlign Ultra.  HM:  Source Element's Source Connect.  
Multieffect: Output Portal.
All-in-one Mastering: DMG Limitless 

Channel Strip:  PA SSL 9k.  HM: Lindell Audio API or Neve.  

3 hours ago, Lionel said:

I’ve been out of the loop for some time… and I see they’ve added quite a lot of new stuff. What are the best UAD plugins these days?  

I just got the Hitsville stuff with a free upgrade, so I have no opinion on them yet.  

My favs or ones you should definitely demo are: 

TubeTech CL1b 

AMS DMX

AMS RMX

Capitol Chambers 

Lexicon 480L 

Lexicon 224

Ams Neve DFC 

Dytronics Cylopanner 

Dytronics Tri-Stereo Chorus 

Oxford Envolution 

AKG BX20

Massenburg Designworks EQ

Maag EQ4

Ocean Way Studios Room Modeler 

Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor 

Little Labs VOG 

Little Labs IBP

EMT250 

Sound Machine Wood Works 

Some of these are available in different formats, PA offerings, Softube, etc.  so that should be taken into account.  Some may or may not sound different.  There's also a question of if you partake in using UAD hardware for modeling.  

That Sontec is crazy good.  Pricey, no doubt.  I have four Sontec channels in my rack, and ended up getting the plug in.  

With that and the SPL PQ, my cup runneth over this year.  

Smart move by MH, imho.  

How dare you.

Buy 2 Korg Volca, get one free!

So...  where's the best deal to be found here?

In case no one knows or has caught on from this thread...  You can steal this off their site.  For really reals.  

I've bought a ton of their merch to hopefully offset my greed.  Bonus points:  When someone asks you "what band is that?" when wearing one of the shirts, you can lie and say "Oh, this?  This is my side project band with [enter industrial music/punk rock band lead singer here]."  and make up any cool band name you can think of.  

3 hours ago, Greg said:

Nice. Of course I bought one 3 days ago for $320 and already put it in my computer!

that's the rule.  

I'm pretty sure PMC speakers will go on sale since I just bought another pair.  

57 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

I don't remember my reel-to-reel tapes ever sounding as bad as the factory presets in this Tape Distortion.  I'd get out my old reel-to-reel and try doing a comparison, but by now all my tapes probably have that nasty tape deterioration / degradation squeal. At least the ones I heard the last time I tried listening to some tapes had the squeal. Now, if these new-fangled imitation tape distortion FX plug-ins simulated varying degrees of that type of squeal, they would be more realistic than the distortion-I-never-had sound the contemporary plug-ins offer.

Maybe I should find a blank section of tape, record the squeal, and convert it into an IR.  🤪

A realistic reel-to-reel simulator should have several modes of mylar distortion (varying degrees of stretched tape all of which sound different, varying degrees of crumpled tape--including when it slides under the capstan and gets pulled by the take-up reel but still drags across the playback head, when the slightly stretched and twisted tape flips over for about 0.75 seconds before straightening out, etc.), as well as acetate tape artifacts such as a torn tape that either never got spliced or the splice came apart while playing back with the take-up reel spinning for a few seconds before the auto shut-off kicked in.

I can't be the only one that remembers the sounds of real tape artifacts!   🤪

Sorry to be so down about this plug-in.  Maybe its just that I'd rather have an FX plug-in--like yet another delay that sounds better than real delay ever did instead of a pretend effect that doesn't sound even half as good as the original artifacts.  This sounds like it was done by a junior high school DSP hacker who did a science fair project, not by a professional sound engineer.  🤪

On the other hand, its free!  🙂 

PS: I just dug out out the CHOW Tape Model Plug-in.  Even though it doesn't have the mylar and acetate artifacts, the CHOW version (also free) has more parameters to tweak to better "tune" the distortion tape to sound more realistic. For example, here's just one set of parameters ("Degrade").

 

 

Kinda orange crayons to apple sauce here.

This is tape emu (and other) from a Mellotron, and intentionally more of the lofi vibe.  

Click for farts.

1 hour ago, Last Call said:

Their DAW still sucks that much these days? JUST GIVE UP Avid:

Noise Burst Peak Protection Preference.

I can't believe after maybe 14 years they haven't fixed that.

Reaper has never given me a noise burst.

To be clear, this 'feature' gives you the option to disable the protection that exists.  

Got it.  

Cons:

No ability to choose the key of the song(?!), (???!!!!!).  

Cheaper options out there that offer better customization, though this promo seems to offer lifetime updates.  

Requires a wrapper for use in Pro Tools.

Gui doesn't resize (impossible to read text for me inside the wrapper).  

Pros: 

Actually comes up with some decent stuff very quickly.  

Good for beginners that know dickall about music, or maybe a seasoned musician dealing with writer's block or just wanting to peek over the piss guard to come up with a load of different ideas very quickly.  

Wrap up:  if this was the first of its kind, we'd be into it.  I'd recommend Captain Chords over this.