TheSteven

Wondering though why they didn't create a standalone version.

Felt bad about the pun (but not bad enough to edit it out).

So  here's the break down from the YouTube page..
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Welcome to my comprehensive 10-hour guide on mastering the art of audio compression! 
Get the free resources and cheat sheets that go with the course:   https://mastering.com/cb-resources-lp...

In this video I'll walk you through the ins and outs of using a compressor like a pro, sharing all the techniques and secrets that professional engineers use in their day-to-day workflow. From understanding the basics to mastering advanced techniques, this video is your one-stop shop for all things compression.

Here are the chapters:

Intro 0:00:00
What Is A Compressor? 0:01:25
Why Do We Need Compression? (The Four Goals) 0:03:52
What is Dynamic Range (The Peaks and Valleys of Sound) 0:13:40
What Does Compression Sound Like? 0:24:44
Wrapping Up (Compression Big Ideas) 0:31:45
Why Can't I Hear Compression? 0:33:40
Anatomy Of A Compressor (Overview) 0:40:59
Threshold and Ratio 0:53:54
Attack and Release 1:06:56
Makeup Gain 1:21:22
Sidechain 1:28:19
Knee, Range, Hold, and Lookahead 1:37:18
Putting It All Together 1:55:44
Wrapping Up (Anatomy of a Compressor) 2:08:33
The Main Styles of Compression 2:10:20
How to Set Up Your Compressor 2:13:40
How to Make an Instrument "Consistent" 2:19:51
How to Make an Instrument "Thick" 2:41:47
How to Make an Instrument "Punchy" 2:53:45
How to Make an Instrument "Groove" 3:05:44
How to Create "Depth" 3:21:59
How to Create "Headroom" 3:37:52
How to Turn Down "Room Sound" 3:52:04
Using The Styles to Achieve the 4 Goals of Compression 3:59:24
What Does Over-Compression Sound Like? 4:14:18
How to Compress ANY Instrument 4:35:44
Wrapping Up (Styles of Compression) 4:53:35
How Fast Are Peaks? 4:54:45
How to Use Serial Compression 5:06:43
How to Use Parallel Compression 5:23:05
How to Use Sidechain Compression 5:41:46
Over vs. Under Compression 5:53:57
How to Know if a Compressor is Helping 6:06:51
Wrap Up (Essential Tips and Tricks) 6:11:07
How to Compress an ENTIRE Mix (Overview) 6:12:33
Phase 1 - Pre-Mix 6:16:20
Phase 2 - Mix Bus 6:45:12
Phase 3 - Balance 7:02:26
Phase 4 - Glue 7:16:43
Phase 5 - Enhance 7:34:28
Phase 6 - Fix 7:51:14
Limiting Your Mix (Mastering) 8:01:57
Analog-ing Your Mix (Saturation) 8:16:03
Where Should I Place My Compressor? 8:42:10
How do I Compress the Low End? 8:51:11
Why Is Compression Making My Home Recordings Sound Worse? 9:01:25
How Do I Compress Different Genres? 9:15:38
What are the Common Analog Compressors? 9:26:10
Recap - The Peak and Valley Technique 9:38:32
Outro 10:01:37

10hrs - this must be the expanded course.

I'll get my hat.

If only it identified which synth (within Attracktive) was associated with the patch...
kind of a major (IMHO) faux pas otherwise it's pretty cool.

5 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Why does GOYO require an internet connection?

We mandate an internet connection for several reasons. This includes safeguarding against unauthorized copying or tampering of our plugin, as well as collecting essential information such as country or DAW usage to better understand our user base and address support issues.

Makes sense for a beta - easy to implement, easy to disable the plugin partially or entirely when beta ends. 
I'm curious as to what system/methodology they'll finally decide on when officially released.

2 hours ago, ralfrobert said:

I am currently happy with my 15 effect plugins, mostly Fabfilter, u-he, Melodyne, Hofa, Voxengo and some others which I use all the time. The rest is collecting digital dust. And I get the job done faster and easier. 

So no from me, no purchases until BF, and I am not even sure what to get then. 

Cudo's on your austere utilitarian work ethic.   I certainly was more productive when I had fewer plugins. 
One of these days I may adopt a similar attitude...

A day may come when my desire for plugins fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of deal forum fellowship, but it is not this day.

Note this does not mean I will participate on this deal, but I join my plugin scrounging brothers and sisters in other deals for the day is yet young and my wallet has not yet faltered!!

I never did get a reply from Plugin Boutique or Audio Damage about the sale applying to upgrades.
Which I guess is, in a way, an answer.

26 minutes ago, mibby said:

The website says until Sept 1, so we should have one more day to waffle on this one.  

That's what I thought but the email I received today said that it was the last day.

"The final day of our 20th Anniversary Sale is upon us!"

Maybe they forgot August has 31 days ?

Sales end today, Aug 30th!!

5 hours ago, Kirean said:

UA Connect and the arbitrary limits of software location is currently the biggest gripe I have with UA plugins. Can't choose install locations and if you try to get away from the defaults by using soft/hard symbolic links, things don't work. Even if you choose a different folder to install files in the software, it still throws all the big ones to the system drive (since apparently the (Creative Bundle's) Grand Piano -files don't qualify under 'Instrument Content'.)

1 hour ago, Hurricane said:

It's interesting how some people have problems and some people don't when using the same thing. UAD Connect is pretty much invisible and I never have any reason to pay attention to it except for when I want to activate and install something. The Ravel Piano installed onto my external drive just fine and it took zero effort to get it to do that.  I've also never had any issues with iLok, and I find their protection highly convenient. 

I'm on a MAC.

These and other things lead me to assume that UAD's development team is MAC based.
No offense intended to my MAC using brethren.

Note on iLok - I'm a PC user and I don't have issues with iLok (and haven't since Windows 98) but as they say YMMV.

It's currently also $35 at
https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/united-plugins-transmutator

Is $35 the usual running price for this plugin? As opposed the MSRP of $69.

At one point AudioDeluxe had it for $12, maybe it was an introductory price... (United Plugins does have killer intro prices on their plugins)
Don't have a pressing need for this at the moment so I'm going to wait till BF to see if it hits a similar price.

3 hours ago, Jesse Bruce said:

First-time users of the UAD plug-in should note the following.

If you are logged on as a standard user and your DAW is set up as administrator, the following phenomena have been reported in a number of cases.

https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/14996936104468-Native-UAD-Plug-in-GUI-Blurry-or-Too-Large-on-Windows

https://uadforum.com/community/index.php?threads/blurry-guis-on-all-my-uadx-plugins.58430/

Be sure to try the demo!

 

Interesting...
and slightly disappointing.  I've had to deal with kind of issue with apps written with older programming SDKs.  Most likely to bite you if you have one of the smaller 4K monitors and need to use text scaling so that menus and program text isn't microscopic. 
A fix not mentioned is to downgrade your display resolution (for example to 1920 x 1080) so that your scaling is set to 100%. It sucks to spend extra money on a high resolution monitor and then not use it that way, but on my last day gig it was the only fix for an app that many people were required to run to do their job.

Thankfully not my issue, hopefully not yours.

Note if you try to move the VST3 plugin out from the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\uaudio_polymax.vst3" folder you'll have a different kind of blury issue because the plugin stores its resources in under "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\uaudio_polymax.vst3\Contents\Resources" instead of any of the standard Windows locations.

10 hours ago, MusicMan said:

Oh the they stack alright!! I got the 1176 bundle for $14US ?

Congrats!
If I could get it for $14 I'd grab it.  At $39 I'll have to pass.

58 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said:

What are the odds Overloud also puts this on sale and we can use the GEM code?

Not likely.

1. According to https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/price-history/gem-comp76-compressor-limiter-by-overloud/
   this is the lowest Comp76 has been on sale for and the sale is only at AudioDeluxe not at Overloud.
2. Overloud doesn't have a history (as far as checking my emails back several years reveals) of having Labor Day sales.

12 hours ago, chris.r said:

Waiting for comparisons against Fabfilter Saturn... ?

2 minutes of checking things online reveal that 
while Plamen has some nice features  (both have a somewhat similar GUI and a multiband approach)
Saturn offers a more features (saturation types, modulation, drive on top of saturation, etc.) for approximately $110 additional (at this moment in time) more. 
https://www.fabfilter.com/help/saturn/using/bandcontrols
https://www.fabfilter.com/products/saturn-2-multiband-distortion-saturation-plug-in
as such I personally don't consider them all that similar.  Getting Plamen might obsolete my various preamp type plugins.

The real question is does Plamen offer something you need that merit the current price of $17 to $19 to add it to your collection.

Not dissing Plamen but if price is the only qualifying factor and you can live without VST3 you can pick up Omicide (a 4 band distortion plugin) for free at
https://ohmsweet.ohmforce.com/pages/legacy-ohmicide

^ and it's $10 cheaper that the UAD version.

I found multiple reviews that rated Overloud Gem Comp76 higher that the UAD version.
e.g. https://integraudio.com/best-fet-compressor-plugins/ or http://indierecordingdepot.com/t/re-aaron-narace-overloud-1176-and-uad-1176/3797

I now have a Labor Day coupon in my cart that drops the price by another $50 to $299

If you're signing up under the Artist's subscription you might as well get a free month...

44 minutes ago, mibby said:

I hear good things about Other Desert Cities too and have been watching it for years. This is as low as I've seen that one. 

Anyone tried it?

I have not tried it but based on the video demo it has been on my wannabuy list...

I bought it at PluginBoutique.  So $5 extra for the freebie.

13 hours ago, Marc Cormier said:

Deal over?  ☹️

Looks like it.  Softube deals tend to be short lived, I missed out on a couple because I was either late to the party or I was waffling on whether to pony up or not.
Good thing is Softube has frequent sales so eventually it'll be on sale again, maybe on BF.

6 minutes ago, MusicMan said:

I wonder if it might take a while to process in their systems. Hopefully it does in time before the offer expires. Otherwise I'd imagine it will be offered at the same price again for you anyway in the near future.

I've had my UA account for a while - with nothing in it i.e. no plugins or hardware.  I might have signed up just to get on their newsletter list.
Once I installed the plugin via UA Connect it took moments for the discount to hit my UA account.
Maybe it takes longer if you've just created a new account?  Dunno if that applies to you, etc. just making speculations with no data.

If you are signing up for Loopcloud Artist get a free month with code 1bb7xy7n

Just now, TheSteven said:

I just registered and installed my PolyMAX and my price dropped from $399 to $349

... stupid edit button change bites again...