![]() ![]() On the other end, there are others here who are doing mainly electronica, and they rely heavily on samples, loops, etc. I'm fairly convinced in the phenomena of the more plugs you buy, the more you tend to use them - and sometimes in a reflexive knee-jerk fashion - without first considering whether you really need them or not.ĭifferent people will have different processes and preferences - On one end, Kurt is our analog purist guy, and if asked, he would come right out and tell you that he prefers an analog desk and a 2" deck. Understand that the more of these plugs you add, the more you have to deal with in the mix, for better and for worse. ![]() but there's a big difference in using them in this as-needed situation, versus leaning and relying on them alone to improve a mix. To use processor plugs in an "as needed" basis is one thing, and there are certainly times where I do use the stock plugs that come resident with Samplitude - GR, EQ, some verb and delay. Over the course of the last year or so however, and after switching DAW platforms entirely ( from Sonar to Samplitude Pro X) I'm using them less and less, and consciously so. Inexpensive for a plug, but pretty redundant in that the tools used already come stock with all major DAW platforms.Īt the time of that writing - my original post, I was still relying heavily on plugs. In short, you can already do what this particular plug was designed for, with the most basic plugs that you likely already have at your disposal. It's not really anything you couldn't do yourself with existing delay, pitch and modulator plugs. The plug from Waves was developed to emulate it. Apparently, it worked, because Sir George ended up using it quite a bit. The engineers came up with a box that they called the "ADT", short for Automatic Double Tracking. John Lennon liked the sound of his voice double tracked, and asked the engineers (I think it was Ken Townsend) to build a device that could duplicate hI'm singing twice on lead vox. This plug was developed to emulate the infamous box that the engineers at Abbey Road invented for The Fabs. I kinda want this Izotope, and I can't afford it right now. I really need to stop downloading these trial version plugs/apps. It has a multiband, but, I can't comment because I don't really use multi band compression - I can count on one hand the number of times I've used MBC since vst's hit the market. I'm not crazy about the reverb, although to be fair I haven't had a chance to spend serious time with it. The compressor is one of the best vst based plugs I've ever used, it's very natural sounding (fairly close to popular mid level rack mount compressors like the dBx 166). I like the EQ and Gain Reduction, I find them to be very "musical", for lack of a better term. My overall impression is pretty positive. My comparison is based on the average caliber plugs available. To be fair, I don't own and have never used boutique plugs like the UA DSP Library, which from what I've heard, has become the defacto standard for many engineers working in DAW land. ![]() I downloaded a 10 day trial of this prog yesterday I had heard from a few engineer friends that they thought it was pretty decent, so I thought I'd give it a go. This is a collection of tools, including EQ, Gain Reduction, Reverb, Multi-Band Compression, Maximizer, Exciter and Imager. ![]()
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