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Post by the other mark williams on Dec 5, 2018 20:44:42 GMT -6
I demoed El Rey and I really like it, but I could only run one instance in my session, and I had to up my buffer setting to 1024 to avoid crackling. I might’ve been able to instantiate one more, but I wouldn’t have been able to run anything else at that point. My machine is not the newest kid on the block, but it’s no slouch: 12 core 3.33GHz Xeon classic Mac Pro with 32 gigs of RAM. Running Logic. I should add that I put it on the 2-bus of a mix that was already in progress, but there’s not much going on in that mix yet. I have a couple different reverbs eating up some CPU, but nothing out of the ordinary. A bunch of people seem to be praising the Core 13 technology as finally low enough CPU hit to make it broadly usable. That, however, is not my experience at this point. There are two Mark Williams'? Hahahaha! I was tired of my screen name getting cut off by one letter and bumping the "s" down to the next line. And it was a little hard to read, maybe?? My name has seriously been something I've battled professionally for over 20 years now. (Says I, to a man named "John Kennedy.") My name is such a common sounding name, that I frequently run into people who are convinced they've heard of me, but in the course of conversation, I become quite sure they have not. That, and there's a fairly well-known producer/AE in Charlotte named "Mark Williams" who's about 15 years my senior, so I've never even been the only "Mark Williams" producer/AE in North Carolina. That, and it's a slight nod to "the other Jeffrey Lebowski."
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Post by Guitar on Dec 5, 2018 21:50:24 GMT -6
phew I'm the only Dan Wiley. Except for some fucked up weird looking dudes on google image search.
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Post by the other mark williams on Dec 18, 2018 1:14:35 GMT -6
Dammit. I just tried this on a VO track today recorded with a Soyuz SU-019, and it killed. Absolutely killed. More subjectively "alive" than my favorite LA-2A plug, the Black Rooster VLA-2A. It also cleaned up the lows / low mids, where there was a touch of muddiness. When I put it on the vocal, I didn't need any EQ.
I *really* didn't want to have to buy this. And I see the price has already gone up a bit (though still not all the way to regular pricing). I'll have to think about it. Grrr.
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Post by papag on Dec 20, 2018 10:44:01 GMT -6
So this thing really is a s good as everyone is saying? Must... resist... hype...
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Post by the other mark williams on Dec 20, 2018 14:11:10 GMT -6
So this thing really is a s good as everyone is saying? Must... resist... hype... Well, it's got the typical Nebula issues: crazy high CPU; mysterious download, install, and licensing stuff; crazy latency. The usual. But it does sound really great.
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Post by seawell on Jan 21, 2020 10:53:15 GMT -6
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Post by Quint on Jan 21, 2020 11:10:14 GMT -6
I am too. Pretty great price of $49 when combined with my additional 25% off loyalty discount.
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Post by junior on Jan 21, 2020 13:45:07 GMT -6
If you already have a copy of Nebula, Tim P's RA6 is about half of the price and seems to be preferred by many. Just saying...
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Post by spindrift on Jan 21, 2020 15:11:22 GMT -6
I shot out some lead vocals using my hardware compressors and El Ray...along with the Magic Death Eye plugin. The El Ray (like most plugins I’ve found) definitely gave the top end a little crisper quality which was unappealing next to a good hardware comp (176, StaLvl, LA2A, Lucas Limiter, TLA-100A) It is great for certain things but I’ve stopped using it on lead vox. I use it on other busses now. Worth $50-75? Yes. The Magic Death Eye was a lot closer to the hardware sound. Not QUITE as good, but pretty dang close. It can be too over the top creamy/HF dampening for some tracks though. Apologies to johneppstein for employing the term “creamy”
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