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Post by seawell on May 18, 2021 16:25:20 GMT -6
Speaking of taupe eq. Does anyone know what its modelled from? EQ A - MCI JH-500 EQ B - MCI JH-600 EQ C - Studer 900 Compressor/Limiter: Studer 900 I refer to this list quite often: justpaste.it/AcusticaAudioAcquaMasterList |
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Post by the other mark williams on May 18, 2021 16:26:46 GMT -6
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Post by gouge on May 18, 2021 20:27:03 GMT -6
Thanks. Now i can see what it is I'm liking the sound of.
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Post by gouge on May 30, 2021 1:03:57 GMT -6
picked up coffee today... it's on sale, i have a small voucher and the free coffee the pun sounds great to me so i grabbed the full plug.
that leaves 3 acustica plugs on my to get list
pink, green and lemon.
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Post by gouge on May 30, 2021 1:30:28 GMT -6
anyone use modula?
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Post by the other mark williams on May 31, 2021 6:48:36 GMT -6
I’ve never tried it. But Nebula is where many of the true gems lie. |
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Post by gouge on May 31, 2021 15:52:31 GMT -6
Keen to hear your thoughts on which nebula are the gems.
Im chasing a dbx160 and 1176 type vibe
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Post by seawell on May 31, 2021 18:49:58 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2021 19:12:06 GMT -6
Keen to hear your thoughts on which nebula are the gems. Im chasing a dbx160 and 1176 type vibe None of the Acustica plugins. Their saturation is good but dsp does not behave correctly at all and doesn’t come close to emulating the non linear behavior of classic hardware. For DBX 160, just buy a hardware unit. None of the plugs are close. If you want to emulate the behavior: high pass filter and boost transient shaper before Molot GE, choose appropriate First and second time constants, very slight or no saturation, sigma mode, feedforward, relaxed off then feed it into a high shelf with an asymmetric fold. There are a lot of them. 1176, nothing attacks and releases properly like hardware. DC8C3 on smash with max oversampling and 100% feedback and input saturation on is the closest behavior wise I’ve heard. If you want something that sounds like a cheap clean fet comp with modern parts, PSP Fetpressor nailed it. If you want gross bright modern hardware, Brainworx Purple MC77 is half that, half clipper. Use whatever you like to color them how you want afterwards but you have to get the lines on the page before getting out the crayons. |
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Post by the other mark williams on May 31, 2021 20:56:37 GMT -6
Winner winner, chicken dinner.
The 660 is very nice. The AX102 is also very nice.
Both TimP and TimC offer excellent stuff, and (generally) at a fraction of the cost AND the CPU of Acquas.
And Brighton from London Acoustics is far and away my favorite opto plugin. Sounds very close to my Stam SA-2A.
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Post by gouge on Jun 1, 2021 3:08:38 GMT -6
Awesome guys thanx.
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Post by gouge on Jun 1, 2021 3:19:04 GMT -6
Keen to hear your thoughts on which nebula are the gems. Im chasing a dbx160 and 1176 type vibe None of the Acustica plugins. Their saturation is good but dsp does not behave correctly at all and doesn’t come close to emulating the non linear behavior of classic hardware. For DBX 160, just buy a hardware unit. None of the plugs are close. If you want to emulate the behavior: high pass filter and boost transient shaper before Molot GE, choose appropriate First and second time constants, very slight or no saturation, sigma mode, feedforward, relaxed off then feed it into a high shelf with an asymmetric fold. There are a lot of them. 1176, nothing attacks and releases properly like hardware. DC8C3 on smash with max oversampling and 100% feedback and input saturation on is the closest behavior wise I’ve heard. If you want something that sounds like a cheap clean fet comp with modern parts, PSP Fetpressor nailed it. If you want gross bright modern hardware, Brainworx Purple MC77 is half that, half clipper. Use whatever you like to color them how you want afterwards but you have to get the lines on the page before getting out the crayons. Im ok if the nebula stuff isnt an exact copy of the hardware just as long as the intent is there and the sound is excellent and thats what im finiding is the case with the current round of acustica plugs. Nebula next and we will see how that feels. i doubt ill go back to molot and tdl unless i have large track counts moving forward. |
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Post by gouge on Jun 1, 2021 6:38:56 GMT -6
so it turns out tims plugs only work with n4 (500 euros) and not the n4player (Free). london acoustics brighton plug works with the n4 player. will check that out first. 500 euros is a big leap to try a few plugs.
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Post by superwack on Jun 1, 2021 7:17:33 GMT -6
so it turns out tims plugs only work with n4 (500 euros) and not the n4player (Free). london acoustics brighton plug works with the n4 player. will check that out first. 500 euros is a big leap to try a few plugs. I’m not an N4 user but have a bunch of Aquas - wanted to let you know N4 goes on sale from time to time and was just recently on a 24 flash sale for 99 Euros from May 14-17. |
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Post by the other mark williams on Jun 1, 2021 8:31:31 GMT -6
so it turns out tims plugs only work with n4 (500 euros) and not the n4player (Free). london acoustics brighton plug works with the n4 player. will check that out first. 500 euros is a big leap to try a few plugs. N4 was just on sale a few weeks ago. You just gotta keep your eyes peeled. EDIT: ha! superwack beat me to it. |
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Post by gouge on Jun 1, 2021 15:18:22 GMT -6
Great thx.
Im pretty sure last time i asked about nebula on here brighton was suggested but i never followed it up as i had a 12 month break from music.
Keen to finally explore the nebula plugs. Really liking the sound of the latest acustica core.
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Post by gouge on Jun 23, 2021 6:33:52 GMT -6
i actually think i have an issue now.
i just bought another 2 acustica plugs and i log in today and see they release a new plug called brown.
doesn't really peek my interest until i have a listen to the demo and it suddenly dawns upon me its emulating the api, electrodyne and quad eight eq's and bloody hell the demo sounds completely freaken insane......
fark. i just bought pink.
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Post by NoTomorrow on Jun 23, 2021 22:46:04 GMT -6
i actually think i have an issue now. i just bought another 2 acustica plugs and i log in today and see they release a new plug called brown. doesn't really peek my interest until i have a listen to the demo and it suddenly dawns upon me its emulating the api, electrodyne and quad eight eq's and bloody hell the demo sounds completely freaken insane...... fark. i just bought pink. The preamps on Brown sound killer when you push the input up a little.... some of their best work to date. And I have about 80% of what Acustica makes |
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Post by gouge on Jul 10, 2021 0:45:57 GMT -6
i'm waiting for brown to come down in price. in the meantime green is on sale so i'll pick that up then i've pretty much got everything i need.
these newer acustica plugs are doing it for me. i've dabbled with acustica on and off in the past and not felt the slow process numbers and overall sound was worth it. these newer versions are working flawlessly for me and they sound very good.
i'm mixing drums now. compared pink 3 and pink 4 on snare and pink 4 sounds fuller and punchier.
cream line amps are on the overheads
kick has coffee channel strip.
buss is pink4 then taupe.
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Post by NoTomorrow on Jul 10, 2021 12:08:41 GMT -6
Yea, I always demo their new releases right when they come out because they always debut with around 35-45% discount.
In addition, the loyalty discount works on top of 'that' discount- making them very affordable for the introductory period.
For instance, when Brown came out it was 35% off, around $150 marked down from $230. I added my 55% discount and paid like $70. Killer deal IMO on these Acustica plugin suites with all of the mic/line preamps, eqs, comps and often other unique features that you get with the purchase.
The updates in perpetuity are all free, and as you probably know sometimes the Core Version updates can be quite a difference/improvement.
I see lots of people have issues with Acustica/Nebula because their machine is older, not top spec etc. A badass computer is required if you plan to use them all over a session. But on my iMac Pro 10-core I throw them all over anywhere/everywhere and don't have any issues.
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Post by gouge on Aug 10, 2021 7:05:39 GMT -6
deep dive continues.
picked up aquamarine 4 on sale and black which is free.
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Post by Quint on Aug 10, 2021 8:40:19 GMT -6
For those of you using Luna, how are the Acustica Acqua plugins behaving, as far as DSP, etc. are concerned?
For those of you using one of the new M1 Mac's, how are the Acustica Acqua plugins behaving, as far as DSP, etc. are concerned?
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Post by gouge on Oct 4, 2021 7:46:33 GMT -6
gold 4 was on sale and i had a discount... soo..... :-)
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Post by the other mark williams on Oct 4, 2021 14:15:38 GMT -6
For those of you using Luna, how are the Acustica Acqua plugins behaving, as far as DSP, etc. are concerned? For those of you using one of the new M1 Mac's, how are the Acustica Acqua plugins behaving, as far as DSP, etc. are concerned? Apologies, Quint - I just now saw this post of yours from almost two months ago! I'm not using Luna, so I can't make any intelligent comment there. Insofar as the Apple Silicon Macs are concerned, this chart right here will show you which plugins have been rewritten for the new architecture. There's also a statement about unpredictable behavior if you try to use an Acqua in Rosetta mode. I'm personally still running Logic in Rosetta mode on my M1 Mini because of iLok, and I just haven't been using my Acustica plugins as much over the past 6 months or so. When I have used them, I haven't noticed odd behavior, but I haven't been working on mission critical stuff lately. Well, that's not entirely true, actually, but the mission critical stuff I've been working on is longform stuff, like 2hr-long interviews and stuff, and I would never use Acustica on something like that, personally. When I checked the chart out just prior to posting this, I was surprised and impressed with how many Acquas they've ported over now. It was slow going for a long while there, but it looks like they've picked up the pace considerably. |
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Post by rockinrobin on Oct 5, 2021 14:37:09 GMT -6
If anyone is interested I have a few Acusticas for sale, including Nebula  PM me |
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