Tommy Byrnes

I've wanted the Curve Bender for a while until I realized I had it in the Waves AR TG Mastering chain. It's the EQ section. I almost always have this on the Master bus and often only use the EQ. It's a very nice sounding plugin and it's considerably less expensive. If someone owns both I would love to know what you think.

I once did a session where I was playing bodhran (Irish hand drum) and the engineer put a u87 on the drum. I told him that was probably too much mic and to use a 57. The producer told me the dude knew what he was doing so we cut the take and the producer hated it. Stuck a 57 on it, laid the track, everyone smiled and that was that.

Definitely off the OP (sorry) but an old philosophy about mics I try to adhere to has remained pretty much the same for a very long time. Make sure I have the mics on hand I'd require to run a typical session and get to know them really, really well. I personally don't have the need for 18 choices of kick drum mics or "The famous mic that captured Dean Martin puking in the corner during a Sinatra session at Capitol" mic or its clone. Though I bet it sounds cherry. I have LDCs for the jobs I need them for. 4 good quality but not super expensive LDCs with different characters for addressing different vocalists, instruments, etc. One good tube LDC and one good ribbon. I have enough mics for drums to do a standard kit along with two pairs of SDCs for overheads or stereo miking of acoustic instruments. And two 421s and four 57s, some of which miked amps on the road for years and still do the job. It's taken me decades to build up the mics I have. The whole locker is probably worth around a pair of u87s. The collecting of gear for the sake of having a locker crammed with 60 year old microphones of every flavor and color has also never been in the budget. It is a selling point for major commercial studios who can boast that sort of inventory to correspond with their history but I don't own one and have only occasionally worked in one. 🙂 As a working musician/studio owner the budget rarely calls for boutique purchases, especially when what I have can do the job. There are a million videos of studio tours and they'll get to the mic locker and pull out all these mics that they never use but they have because they're old or worse, rare! I once saw a picture of the inside of Joe Perry's guitar warehouse. Hundreds of guitars from floor to ceiling he just bought and put in this huge place. Almost none of them will ever get played or even see the light of day again. That really affected me and kinda bummed me out, like seeing caged animals in a zoo. Plugins, on the other hand, are a problem. I blame Larry for that.

All seems well and good in the kingdom here. The trouble I was having with Dim Solo not working has been resolved, so yay! Ran the update hard during a tracking session and a mastering session. No problems. Thanks again, you guys. What a wonderful bakery you run. 🙂

Thank you Bakers!!!

This is an extremely good compressor. For a tenner it's a must have.

It's good. Different animal than Sat-X. If you have it, put it before the SSL Channel Strip as that doesn't emulate the input transformers (at least I don't think so as the input gain doesn't introduce harmonics) and Bob's yer uncle. Wide range of very usable saturation.

My original OP was about normal Dim Solo. Dim solo a track and all other tracks are lowered in volume by the specified amount. It's always worked the times I've used it until the latest update. I don't use patch points so I'm not sure about double dimming with them.

Just did the same thing. I'm pretty much only picking up Unison stuff these days as everything else is pretty much covered. I got the API preamp a couple of months ago as well. Easy on the SHARK and sounds great. I've had the old Vision strip for a while and I know lots of folks are mad about the steep price to upgrade but with the coupons bringing it down to $20 or so feels pretty fair to me. It's a wicked good channel strip!

You know, I'm not sure how long as I don't really use it. I thought it would come in handy working on percussion parts of a mix the other day and when I pressed it and soloed a track nothing happens. Exclusive solo works fine and so does regular solo. It's not a usual part of my workflow so it may have stopped working ages ago and I never noticed it. Weird, though.

Changing the Dim Solo Gain has no effect and it doesn't work in either new projects or old ones. Not sure why it would just stop working.

Hi folks, I just tried to use Dim Solo for the first time in a while and found it doesn't work. I just did the Early Release hoping it would fix it but no go. I'm not sure when it broke as I don't use it much but I could have used it during a mix session. Thanks for the help! Tommy

Grabbed the new Manley Preamp for a cool $25. It's lovely.

As I stated, I don't discount your complaints and I understand some people have had problems, but I have not. Not false narrative but my narrative. If this was such a widespread issue and there were problems all over the place I doubt those who rely on Waves plugins to make a living (like me) would bother with them. Just my thought.

I can only talk about my experience with Waves and CbB/Sonar. I don't use S1. And it's hardly a false narrative if it's true for my situation. I get that but I don't often add more Waves plugins nowadays because I have all the ones I need. It only takes a couple of seconds to scan the shell and I have about 85 Waves plugins installed so that seems efficient to me. Their plugins are too good and get too much use for me to worry about a shell scan. I know other folks have had issues but I'm only talking from my experience with Waves and it has been a positive one for me. YMMV

Exactly. I've never really had a problem with Waves in the 10 plus years I've used their plugins. I keep the licenses for Waves and all the other companies on a thumb drive and move between computers. I'm not sure what all the fuss is about using a shell. It all works fine and has for years. I WUPped for the first time this past spring. No issues or problems. V13 is installed and working fine. Before the WUP I had some V9, V10 and V11 plugins all working nicely together. I feel bad for all those who have complaints with Waves but I've never had any real negative experiences.

I will give it a try. Thanks!

Hi folks, Is there a way to remove the new PC module PC-2A? I have owned the CA-2A plugin since it came out and use it quite a bit. Ever since we were given the PC-2A on nearly every project I get the notification below. Some time it goes away when I next open the project after saving my choice and sometimes it doesn't and I have to do it again. Since I won't really use the PC-2A I figure if I remove it I won't get this annoying message every time. Thanks for the help!

The TE-100 Followed by Waves MV2 is an inspiring combo on bass. I usually duplicate the bass track, HPF one and LPF the other, both at around 300 Hz. A bit of compression on each to level them some and then send both to an AUX track along with the DI (if there is one). This way I've got control over the low end and the high end and can blend them into the AUX track. The bass AUX has the TE and MV2. Doesn't matter the style, it makes the bass sound amazing.

I did the exact thing a few months back with the WUP sale.

What it does to bass is truly amazing. I never mix without it.

I've found the best way to deal with UAD plugin problems like this, and many other VST problems as well, is to make sure I only have one VST2 folder location, which for me is Cakewalk\VST Plugins. Have the VSTScan only scan that one folder. I've always used that location, no matter the DAW just because I've been doing it since the early Sonar days. VST3 defaults to its normal place (C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3). I copy (don't cut) the dll for the plugin I own from the main UAD Powered Plugins folder and paste them into a new UAD Plugins folder in my main VST2 folder and there they stay, unaffected, unless I buy an update for one of them or there are fixes to specific plugins. This way the VST folder and their contents aren't changed and there aren't all the UAD plugins to scan, just the ones you own. Just don't scan the normal UAD folder and you're good. Keep the UAD Powered Plugins folder intact because Console uses that location to load the plugins. I hope this helps. (edited for a stupid spelling error)

With the $25 voucher and the sale price at $49 I was able to get the new API preamp for $25, which is ridiculous. I wanted either this one or the Neve preamp for Unison tracking and to drop it on the inputs coming from ADAT and other sources into Console when I'm tracking bigger sessions. Sounds great and just what I needed, a pre without EQ or compression. Very low SHARC usage, which is nice. I think if you have the now "old" Vision strip the upgrade for the API preamp is $49. Best UAD deal I've ever got!