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Post by gouge on Dec 9, 2016 21:25:50 GMT -6
i grabbed a copy of nova and 67p.
looked around for hardware also
urei la-22 and bss 402 look handy.
any other hardware ideas?
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Post by Guitar on Dec 11, 2016 17:37:25 GMT -6
I use the FabFilter Pro-MB also.
Most recently I was able to control the low end proximity effect of a vocal track with a handheld mic that was sort of all over the place regarding distance from the mic while singing. The Pro MB reined in the lows very nicely, exactly when needed. An EQ would have ruined the track.
I also used on mix buss as a high frequency expander to get explosive sounding cymbals on a punkish rock track I did one day. I just got the mix pumping in a cool way, maybe too much even.
It's a very useful tool I'm getting to know more, and find more uses for.
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Post by gouge on Dec 11, 2016 21:12:33 GMT -6
one the mix i did on the weekend i used reaper reaxcomp. it worked well but on some sources i noticed qrtifacts so it's going in the bin.
i also used reafir and found it very difficult to control. it is not intuitive. so it's in the bin as well. also noticed something I've noticed before when it's in eq mode. that being it sounds best as one filter only. so if you need more than one filter use 2 or more.
next up is nova.
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Post by henge on Dec 11, 2016 22:17:53 GMT -6
I don't recommend many things, but Reaper has a native VST called ReaFIR, that is the absolute bomb when it comes to dealing with so many issues. I downloaded the Soothe demo, it is okay, but you are still sort of whistling in the dark while setting it. ReaFIR uses FIR filtering, in several ways. First, the waveform is displayed like an analyzer so you can get a visual clue about where problems might exist. It has infinite bands, and introduces no phase issues, unlike regular EQ. It also has a compression mode, where instead of a straight EQ adjustment, you can draw a wave form, or pull the static line down in areas, and then set a ratio that you wish the EQ to operate from. It also has what is called Subtract mode, if you select it to build a noise profile you can play something into it, and it will learn its equalization curve, and then you switch it to compression mode and it will apply that curve to your material. Just for an experiment I applied Soothe to a song fairly liberally, and then played pink noise through those same settings in Soothe and ran that to ReaFIR so it could learn the curve that Soothe was applying. Then I A/B'ed the track with ReaFIR and Soothe, and although they were basically indistinguishable, the artifacts left by Soothe and its effect on neighboring bands weer audible, ReaFIR was noticeably more transparent. But what is even more useful is how I used it earlier today, I am trying to prepare a record, and this particular song just didn't sound as good as it could. So I went to Youtube, found "Penny Lane" by the Beatles, which has this wonderful bass curve and lots of interesting instrumental and vocal parts artfully blended, and played that into the Subtract mode, where it learned the frequency reesonse curve of a well remastered song. Then I played the problem child through that, and just had to smile at all the hair-pulling and repeated listening and tweaking it let me avoid. There are so many interesting things in Reaper, and as it is a free trial with a ridiculously cheap license if you decide you just have to have it (although the license is on the honor system, they never disable the trial version). PC or OS, recognizes any hardware, downloads in two minutes, it is a miracle of goodwill and excellent software design...... I've always found reafir to be phasey as hell!! Maybe they've improved the algo over the years. |
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