Nick Blanc

See the video below. It is rare when a plugintube YouTuber comes around and admits it's all bullshit, but he did it. I appreciate the honesty where he says it was just for the money and that he has quit the whole show. Also where he says the YouTube algorithm is **** for these things. It's all about pumping out as much content as you can. Retention is always bad, so the only way to mitigate that is more and more content. Weaver Beats says the same thing, he makes daily videos because views drop after 1-2 days. I notice this myself on my jams (only after typing this Paul mentions him as an example). It's a no brainer but great someone finally said it, that they intentionally leave obvious stuff out of of review so people will comment which will push the algorithm. It's a long one, but very ontopic for this part of the forum. Mods, please relocate if not appropriate.

My secret weapon on the drumbus.

Thanks for the support!

Welcome! Nice to see you again.

Haha case in point. I'm mixing my next week's jam right now and I can't get the vocal volume right 🤣

Thanks! And yes it is a lot of fun. My dad visited yesterday for some coffee (and a cheeky whiskey) and to see my latest synth (Prophet 6). I was noodling around, turning knobs and suddenly got a great sound. Later that day, a friend visited to watch Formula 1, I was again noodling around and suddenly got a great melody. Recorded everything an hour later and that's a new jam for next week. It's all about fun and people joining in.

I know the process, vocals are hard. I'm nowwhere near getting them right. Practice makes perfect.

New sunday, new jam! A sidestep from the rough techno from last week, I decided to get back to a bit more melodic and full arrangement. Forgot I had some drums 'in the bag' I added just at the very end haha. Its weird how you can scroll through endless presets on your softsynths and not finding anything that fits well together, and somehow hardware does that automatically. Or I could be imagining it to justify my purchases 😅

Nice song, definitely brings me back (I'm from roughly the same era). I wish this would be the current rock sound on the radio. If I might add a point of critique, it might be my speakers right now, but the vocal seems a bit seperated from the instrumental. Like the balance is just slightly off. It's just a bit dryer?

NOVA is the only GE plugin I don't have. But I use mostly ProQ3, some Pultec emulation or a specialty thing (like Maag for high end, Chandler for mids on the master, SmartEQ when I'm lost). I even have the supposed king, the Kirchoff, but rarely use it. Besides completing the collection for €20, what would NOVA give me?

I tried it and I got the same message. Weird. The plugin seems to load ok in my DAW though (after I clicked 'Keep' of course).

Jup, I forever 29'ed it.

I think I'm fine with ARC3. I have a particular flow when exporting, which is switching on dithering, hitting the dim switch on my RME remote and disabling ARC. Works fine. I think I forget to disable it once every 20 exports. The CPU hit is minimal. I don't know what my advantage of upgrading would be. Edit: People on Gearspace seem to say that the upgraded algorithm sounds better. Soooo, maybe I will upgrade. I'm not looking forward to doing the measurements again though.

Yes this is the P6. It's awesome. I used a weird midi generator in Ableton where notes flow in a sine wave LFO which you can manipulate with 'gravity' and are triggered when they cross some threshold. It creates a really unique melody. Next week (recorded this weekend) I do a bit more 'traditional' melody work with the P6. I was worried it might clash with the Matriarch, but they work really well together.

And here you are, right on time haha. I really appreciate the support. It's awesome!

A mixture between what you know I do and something I like to listen to but don't make a lot. Oh, and a new toy, boy is it awesome!

I use Loc-ness sometimes on drums, it's quite good for 'that' sound.

Thank you! And yes the vocal hits the spot just right, I was lucky to find it (it's just a Splice vocal amongst thousands). It kinda works with the zombie behaviour of the Malevolent and the overall vibe.

Funny synth that Malevolent. Because of the unstable character of the filter, the sharp cutoff and that insane resonance, you basically play chromatically with the filter. And there are sweetspots where it does it all by itself (hence the "zombie" part). As always, enjoy!

Also, as I remember, the Fire series wasn't included in the previous BF sale. I don't know if this is a first, but the code works on those plugins.

Oh hold on, I tried stacking but there's no coupon input anymore after you use 1. So I guess they can't be stacked, or am I missing something?

Ash (clipper) is normally 199. But it is discounted to 109. Add the 50% coupon and it is 54.50.

Thanks! The Edge really shines in this one.

Nice little jam. I was going for a more mellow vibe with a clear melody (I tend to get a bit muddy sometimes). But suddenly the Edge started to do what it does very well, a bit of industrial beats. So I went with it and made it a section in the track. Fun fact / happy accident: the high drone sound from 2:10 all the way through 5:10 is the MS20 which kept sustaining the note. It wasn't planned but the patch turned out that way and I decided to keep it in. That's the fun of hardware!

One of the best clippers out there. https://kazrog.com/collections/audio-plugins/products/kclip-3 €44,95 I guess that's with discount already off? I don't see a 'from...now..." thing. just the price. No code or anything. Maybe this is already discounted, maybe the campaign hasn't started yet?