razor7music Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) Hey Group-- I'm trying to see if the EQ (glossy) and compressor from the CW Pro Channel typically use more or less computer resources than say, a comparable 3rd-party plug-in? Anyone tested that? Thanks, Stephen Edited February 22, 2019 by razor7music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 The UAD plugins run on their own proprietary cards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor7music Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 Yeah, thought about that after I posted. Bad example. I'll update my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 ProChannel was meant to use very little resources when it was introduced. I can't say if it does now or not. Though it was meant to be used on all tracks. I haven't used it on all tracks yet. Also with the ability to use any VST in PC I would now say no. It would greatly depend on what is in your ProChannel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor7music Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, John said: ProChannel was meant to use very little resources when it was introduced. I can't say if it does now or not. Though it was meant to be used on all tracks. I haven't used it on all tracks yet. Also with the ability to use any VST in PC I would now say no. It would greatly depend on what is in your ProChannel. Yeah, I'm asking because I need to use EQ and comp on most if not all tracks. The PC would just have EQ and comp. Edited February 22, 2019 by razor7music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I don't think the PC EQ is a resource hog. It should not show up much in Performance Module. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Jarvis Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) If you're using the same settings on your tracks set up a send instead of per-track instances of EQ and compression. Bill Edited February 23, 2019 by Cookie Jarvis per is spelled p e r not p r e ;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willard cottrell Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) Bill's solution is the one I use after reading and seeing some videos on the subject. Willard Edited February 23, 2019 by willard cottrell can't spell my own name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor7music Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Thanks for the buss suggestions. The settings are different in my case. I do have a buss comp for the 'glue' but I'm taming track transients and carving out EQ for balance, so I also need a per track solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckebaby Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 17 minutes ago, razor7music said: I do have a buss comp for the 'glue' but I'm taming track transients and carving out EQ for balance, so I also need a per track solution. There are 2 main reasons for Buses. 1- To use as a send for FX, Sidechains, or even sending a portion of the original signal out for extra processing. 2- To group tracks for level control Vs. Effect control. Im with you as normally I am carving and cant group individual tracks. However there are those instances where every piece of a drum kit should be sent (using the tracks output) to a Drum Bus. Or all the guitars (of same flavor) are sent to a Guitar bus. The pro channel uses little resources. I've used it (and still do) on 50% of my tracks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 1 hour ago, razor7music said: Thanks for the buss suggestions. The settings are different in my case. I do have a buss comp for the 'glue' but I'm taming track transients and carving out EQ for balance, so I also need a per track solution. Then ProChannel is ideal for that. I'm assuming you have a recent computer with a good CPU. You don't need the greatest and latest computer. It is also possible to freeze tracks you have processed and won't process any more. This will free up resources to do more processing. LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor7music Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 My DAW is actually a really good one and I'm not seeing any dropouts at this point. It was more of a general knowledge question. In my current project, the PC works great because I can copy the EQ settings to another track(s) when all I need to do is reverse a Q carve-out etc. Since I was moving along nicely with that method, it crossed my mind about the resource comparison. I've got some tracks I can freeze if I start to run out of juice! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 ProChannel modules are not fundamentally different from third-party plugins. They're all doing the same things under the hood. Although efficiency does vary from one vendor to the next, the major factors such as buffer sizes will necessarily apply to all plugins of that type. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 (edited) My understanding is that the more complexed the processing the more CPU it will need. So a simple Plug in with a few settings would therefore not be crunching as many numbers as one that had a zillion settings you changed. Then those look ahead type I would assume use more power. Edited February 24, 2019 by Cactus Music 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 I use the the Pro Channel modules almost exclusively, only third party one I use regularly is Boz Digitals +10dB Compressor. All happy here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 In Pro Channel the only ones I have found I like are the PC 76 U type Compressor and the Gloss EQ. The Gloss EQ is more or less the only EQ I use anywhere unless I need one on the Master then I like the Focusrite Red 2 EQ . I don't use a lot of EQ anyhow but I have the Gloss EQ using the Hi Pass filter on every track set at different settings depending on instrument. For analog audio If I don't like the way something sounds I re record it. For VST's instruments I get by with the GUI EQ most times. My latest can't live without it is the BBE Sonic Maximizer I got for Christmas. I'm not even sure what it does but with just the right touch everything just shines and jumps out of the mix. But they are resource hog. If I put one on every buss I need to FX bypass if I'm re tracking anything. I've never had an issue with having the Prochannels on all my tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Jones Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Cactus Music said: My latest can't live without it is the BBE Sonic Maximizer I got for Christmas. I'm not even sure what it does but with just the right touch everything just shines and jumps out of the mix. Warning: Off-topic comment. In the 1980s LA producers went crazy over a box called The Aphex Aural Exciter. At first you couldn't buy them -- you had to rent them. Then when they became available to buy you discovered that the critical electronics inside were sealed, so you couldn't reverse engineer the product. Nobody knew exactly what they did, but somebody famous used one (Linda Ronstadt, maybe) and after that everybody had to have one. It did seem to add some kind of sheen to vocals. Eventually we figured out that it distorted certain high harmonics and added them back to the signal. I think the BBE Sonic Maximizer works like that. Edited February 27, 2019 by Larry Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 2 hours ago, Larry Jones said: somebody famous used one (Linda Ronstadt, maybe) and after that everybody had to have one Yes! Although I was just in high school, I remember exactly the moment they went viral, it was a very widely read feature in Rolling Stone, and she talked about how she and Asher put it all over her latest record. Don't remember which one that was. Would have been in the heyday of Yacht Rock. Given the times, those potted modules inside probably contained Peruvian marching powder.? The other vocalist I remember talking them up was, of all people, Wayne County, who mentioned it in Creem, not surprisingly, and s/he actually described the effects in more detail. Said that it created a "sonic hologram" of the lead vocal and that you couldn't own one, you could only rent one. This was all like reading about some wonderful far-off world where wizard people got to work with amazing devices and create magical sound sculptures. Who knew that when I knocked on the door the Mighty Oz would show me the hand, but that 30 years later it would be sitting right in my dining room.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William W. Saunders, Jr. Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 I had both the Aural Exciter and the BBE. They were helpful to spice up vocals and add sizzle when recording to tape. But ultimately both seemed to degrade the signal they were processing and really seemed like cheap tricks to just add high frequency. Once I got higher quality mics, digital arrived and highs weren't being lost on bounces and mixes, I abandoned them. Oh, now that I recall, the Aural Exciter ultimately sizzled out in a blue haze of very warm electrical smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 (edited) We love Off topics Yes I totally know the history and I owned one that also had a "Big Bottom" knob. The trick is to only use them sparingly as it defiantly will over compress / distort at a certain point. My initial problem is I cannot sing into a LDC mike. I've tried a dozen or so and had to sell them all. I sound terrible and you can hear all this unwanted noise I make when singing,,, To many years of live mike technique I guess. I therefore sound the best using a Beta 58. So the Sonic Maximizer brings back the sparkle that is missing with the 58. I also like what it does to acoustic guitar and a little bit on drums too. Edited February 27, 2019 by Cactus Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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