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Doesn't stop them creating a vocal strip. Iv'e heard the scheps omni channel is a good vocal strip, tempting at £29 from £150 but i shall make do with what i have

One of my thought provoking sound tracks, i do like my solo at the end... only took me 2hrs to get it right haha

Ive looked at that T-De_Esser a million times and even think i downloaded it, then noticed its in my plugin boutique downloads so i must have missed it and never actually downloaded it haha Does the Kilohearts gate have any close defaults presets to fine tune ?

I don't own one of FF plugins, ive never been a plugin fan and tried to stick to craft with stock and free But then i consider some plugins are essential like good keys/synth plugin, i bought melodyne, Ozone 9 elements which i should upgrade to 10 advance but £265 English notes is steep when i could maybe spoend that type of money more wise with a few good plugins. I.E. Scheps Omni Channel is $29 from $150 which is tempting and great for vocals apparently. Everyone raves on about Decapitator which is £44 from £159. i always need maybe a good comp with side chain lol The thing i could maybe justify buying at the moment is some type of noise gate filter that gets rid of the odd acoustic buzz, its my playing fingers getting old and with a de-esser etc type plugin FabFilter pro bundle is £465 and the mix version not much cheaper too much for me to justify lol

Even the digital ones have a mind of their own

hard choice which one to be fair

Most headphones have the low end frequency which go much lower than what we can hear, you are one in a million if you can hear 20hz. However speakers help us "feel" the low end and therefore why you should also test on a sub which can high light rumble but monitor's don't. Especially some jungle or drum n bass, EDM etc or big impact films scores. The big issues is, People often train themselves to have bad mixing and mastering habits, majority of the time has nothing to do the speakers or cans. The hardest thing to train is binaural, there’s no crosstalk between the left and the right, and as such you get a different perception of frequency, phase, and stereo position with headphones and speakers. Speakers are in front of you, and they’re directional, but they’re not laser-like, so sound waves from the left interact with the right and vice versa. So some frequencies can cancel out, others can get boosted, and so forth. This is why when people say you should only mix on monitors is because of the wives tails and myths in the industry. You must use both, there's no way round it for the best mix. Here's the bog problem if you choose one or the other “headphone mix” won’t translate onto speakers without testing. On the other hand, “speaker mixes” usually translate better to headphones but you still need to test headphones because you then start hearing sibilance and sonic. Tools that can simulate speakers on headphones all do some form of “binarual correction” still best to check on speakers and check on headphones given the goal of natural and accurate sounding music is really only attainable if the room you are mixing in has proper acoustics but some music sounds great mixed on headphone from a stage in front of a crowd haha all about training those ears so when you’ve got something that sounds good on BOTH headphones AND speakers your vibing

All aboard the Spotify hYpe Train add to your list if you go running or MTB its gets you going https://open.spotify.com/track/43yxMWKmS8t1pOEkS8pKhz?si=ecec5a99cf24497a

And why speakers are not good at exposing sonic details because of reflections when your never in the same place and then all of a sudden your mix falls to bits.

Im glad your confident the monitors because it was not the traditional way to go about mixing on headphones until sometime like the MD7506s came along but hey are now the go-to tool for exposing sonic details which you can't do on monitors. The big problem is unnaturally wide stereo image of crossfeed between your left and right ears panning and why many now use high-quality open-back flat frequency response or train your ears for isolation. Conclusion you must use both

Absolute steal on black friday $29 from 150 https://www.waves.com/plugins/scheps-omni-channel#presenting-scheps-omni-channel

There's no substitute for good playing and recording, especially a good hook

Probably don't need more than 10 and cakewalk stock is pretty good but i think they should update the stock

It's funny you say MD7506s which is my trusted go to and they are the cheaper cans i have in that irony. I worked for ITV as i tech sound engineer and we all used the MD7506s and the old V6. I find they are easy to train your ears with Bass, Mid and Highs. However it is good to test bass on monitors like you would with any isolation cans but they do give good "neutral” bass response to get near as dammit. Its a fact, people generally really do have a different earing responses and range, some people are tone death, can't tune a instrument, can't separate sound, so you can't expect them to mix is the reality. Iv'e been to many of studios (i.e Abby rd) spoken to many a engineer and you will find many mix and master on cans, but test on monitors. The ones that mix and master on monitors still check everything on cans and end up making changes. Every engineers i worked with would say "does that sound right" haha

If you could only have "ONE PLUGIN" which one? a extra plugin given cakewalk stock you already have. However i would be interested in a football stadium (Old Trafford) full of manu fans all farting at the same time and someone light a lighter to see what happens.

Softtube do some cracking gear, but expensive

Ozone 10 Advanced Crossgrade from any paid iZotope product (including Elements) from £471 to £265 but black friday could be cheaper. Stick on wish list and see if they tempt me lol

The headphones these days have become a secret weapon of many mixing and mastering engineers. I find headphones are far better for the quality control and finding issues but test on monitors. Its fining that balance and the right monitors that your ears prefer. If someone can't get amazing results with AKG Pro Audio K371 5 Hz To 40 Khz they need to give up, well they need to give up if they can't even do it on a pair of Sony MDR-7506 haha

I use Ozone 9 elements and i am considering the upgrade to advanced, is it worth it?

I keep meaning to try the free version of Amplitube, i think you get quite a few sounds to test but i have stand alone boss i use and the cakewalk TH3 i get by with. I like some of the sounds evanescence and linkin park have. Yes the SoftTube who do the Drawmer73 plugin have a great sound and the SoftTube Tube Delay they do you can use for that grit or saturation, all their gear as the vintage analog vibe i like. Black Friday coming up, i am tempted to see whats going to be at a must have price haha

I notice PSP Vintage Warmer 2 been taken off plugin boutique and you now have to buy it direct at full price. Friend users it and the boost when you level match is impressive, it really does bring out the texture. To get that same Fat warm sound, i use a Vintage tube sat along side Softube Drawmer S73 compressor. I find the Softube stuff have very warm analogue vibe which i do like. Drawmer S73 compressor as a good level match and they do a old school Tube Delay which is awesome for colour if you ever get chance it use it, i would recommend. I'm always using different compressors

Totally understand, Cakewalk stock reverb, saturation and EQ are second to none. The Sonitus multiband, delay and Compressor etcare enough but old and lacking to a point. i do feel CB lacks with stock limiting, compressing flexibility, full saturation harmonics, the noise gate reduction for de-esser and buzz etc is very limited much of these are not just about mixing but i totally get what you saying and you can't beat a good tune, hook, riff and melody

If you could only have ONE PLUGIN which one would you have. I always use Verb, you can't do without it, its natural, but so is saturation and harmonics with compression attack and dely... Some things you may need in home studio like melodyne and Ozone 9, i even use Ozone 9 on all my bus with its great EG, subtle comp and trans Man this really is a tough one, ive always said plugin companies have missed a trick about all-in-one channel strips, even most current vocal strips don't have Verb. You know like a vocal stirp with EQ, SAT, COMP, VERB, DELAY, DE-ESSER NOISE GATE and STEREO WIDTH. Replicate with a Guitar Strip, a Bass Stirp, KEY Stripe DRUM strip and MASTER strip you just got a market for beginner's and even pros or sell to any DAW to be built in.... One plugin what would i have, i probably use Ozone 9 the most and can get away with stock in cakewalk to do rest but i am still looking for a good vocal strip

I have Bluetooth headset in car, not a great sound test haha

Cheers Michael, i think my YouTube is quite a bag of styles