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Post by deaconblues on Oct 30, 2021 17:23:41 GMT -6
I bought all the Fuse Audio stuff I didn’t own except the amp sim and Dozer pedal (I have so much of that stuff already I don’t use). Fug it. It’s really unique stuff. I haven’t spent much time with the amp, but the Dozer is really something special even if you have a bunch of stomp boxes. It’s incredibly heavy on guitars and instant Yeezus on drum machines.
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Post by sean on Oct 30, 2021 17:49:35 GMT -6
I bought all the Fuse Audio stuff I didn’t own except the amp sim and Dozer pedal (I have so much of that stuff already I don’t use). Fug it. It’s really unique stuff. I haven’t spent much time with the amp, but the Dozer is really something special even if you have a bunch of stomp boxes. It’s incredibly heavy on guitars and instant Yeezus on drum machines. I guess I can skip coffee tomorrow and grab this instead ($6!?!)
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Post by deaconblues on Oct 30, 2021 18:26:45 GMT -6
I haven’t spent much time with the amp, but the Dozer is really something special even if you have a bunch of stomp boxes. It’s incredibly heavy on guitars and instant Yeezus on drum machines. I guess I can skip coffee tomorrow and grab this instead ($6!?!) Sleepy Sunday! I assure you, the Dozer can keep you awake!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 21:12:03 GMT -6
are there any fuse plugs that do the distressor thing Presswerk is the crack baby of a Distressor and a Fatso.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 21:25:55 GMT -6
are there any fuse plugs that do the distressor thing UAD Distressor and Slate FG-Stress both nailed the tone. The Arousor is cleaner but behaves a bit worse without using the distortion. If you want that squishier than Distressor thing with Fatso type saturation, use Presswerk. Hit HQ, INT, and DPR. Use like a tiny amount of lookahead, back off the attack, deck the ratio, and dig in m on the drum room or snare. If Distressor Nuke is Hiroshima, this is World War 3. The Nukiest Fuse plug is VCL-373 and it’s totally different and just as insane but has to be hit right otherwise it gets woofy or saturates the treble out. Insane on drum rooms and vokills. Usable but not ideal on the 2 bus.
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Post by gouge on Oct 30, 2021 22:00:52 GMT -6
thx dan.
maybe black friday will unveil some more options.
the arouser and psp fetpressor are both on my list. tbh i should prob sell a bunch of kit and get a distressor.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 22:33:35 GMT -6
thx dan. maybe black friday will unveil some more options. the arouser and psp fetpressor are both on my list. tbh i should prob sell a bunch of kit and get a distressor. If you want the tone and the behavior, only the real hardware will do it.
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Post by Blackdawg on Oct 31, 2021 2:14:01 GMT -6
sonnex is having a 75% off sale starting Nov 1st
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Post by sean on Oct 31, 2021 8:16:14 GMT -6
Messing around with all these Fuse Audio plug-ins today, just quickly trying some stuff...
Pedals: Big Sur: Sounds like a Big Muff pedal, which there are a lot of versions of digitally, but this one has a lot more useable range of tones. The mix knob is greatly appreciated. Chorus 65: Awesome. Just the default setting you'll go "oh yeah this is what a good chorus pedal sounds like" If you've ever used an Ibanez CS-9 this nails it. Dozer Drive: Very cool, I like the Fuzz Face section in particular, it's nice to have a "mellow" fuzz pedal option digitally. And like the Big Sur the Tube Screamer side has a lot more useable range of sounds than other versions. El Germano: This is probably the most creative. If you've ever had a pedal with adjustable bias and voltage this nails the splatty, gated sounds you can get with those pedals. Reminds me of my EHX Germanium OD. Gate-230: Not sure if this would replace a dedicated gate plugin, but I tried it on a noisy bass and it did the job with little effort. Octafish: Does exactly what the Boss OC-2 pedal does. Like the real pedal a little goes a long way...just dial in enough so you feel it more than hear it and it adds a nice weight. A nice alternative to the BX Subfilter
EQs: W2395c: Hey, it's free, and you can't beat free. I wish it was modeled after the W2395, which I used to have, and it has a glorious low end. But, when you need an EQ with a board midrange Q this is a nice option. Reminds me of a MEQ-5 in the regard...but I think this better than plugin versions of those I've tried for what I like to use them for (electric guitars) TCS68: This is one I need to dig in a little deeper with. Last night I used it on a horn sections that was really bright and sort of fake sounding (even though they were real) and it did a great job at that. I don't think it sounds "lo-fi" but it does a nice job of killing the cheap mic/digital harshness VQA-154: This reminds me a lot of the Harrison EQ. Awhile back I demo'd this and mixed a song with it as the only EQ and really enjoyed it. One of those EQs where you can boost a lot and it never sounds "bad". I wish when you clicked on the EQ frequency it would move to that section, because sometimes that little knob is hard to grab! VQP-258A and 259A: Definitely the least flexible plug ins, but still good sounding. The 259A is a nice way to roll off cymbal harshness, and the 258A is pretty fun on a mix if you want to add that smiley face EQ to it. Probably the best 3K shelf I've ever heard. Really cool on electric guitar.
Compressors VCL-25A: I really like this on vocals, adds a little warmth. Does a great job of "hugging" the singer. I'm not the worlds biggest fan of the 1176 followed by a de-esser because it added a bunch of sibilance sound, this is more of what I'm looking for in a vocal compressor. VCL-373: Another standout, this reminds me of a less dirty Devil-Loc. It can really flat line something, but it doesn't sound smashed or fucked up (unless you want it to). On drums it's great at taming the snare drum in the overheads. Hit it hard and it does that transistor overdrive thing nicely. VCL-4: If you've used a LA-4 this is what they sound like. I think it was modeled after one with the Altatronic mods, and I have a pair that Jim Williams modified, and this is pretty close. Personally, sometimes it's a little too grabby for me on vocals. But, I'm liking it on electric guitars (I've owned this one for awhile) VCL-515: I need to spend some more time with this one. I haven't figured out what it's attack and release characteristic work with. VCL-864U: If you've used a real Federal, or one of the clones, you know they can be fickle beast but I found this to be immediately gratifying. Similar to the VCL-25A but with a faster attack. Another beautiful, musical release characteristic.
Saturation: VPRE-2C: Definitely the easiest to dial in, on electric guitar it reminds me up plugin into an old Califone tube record player, or a Champ cranked up and bagging for it's life. But, can be subtle as well. I used it on a some hand claps (mix of live and samples) to even them out take the edge off. Sounded great on a bass DI to give it just a touch of grit and even out the playing (I thought the "high" setting sounded best on bass) VPRE-376: Adds some brightness and edge to sound. I dig it on electric guitar in particular. Didn't really "do it" for me on anything else (bass, vocals, B3 *although not a bad on this*) VPRE-31A: Probably the subtlest of them all, definitely the smoothest and doesn't really get "blown out". This actually makes it pretty useful, it got the closest on the B3 to the sound go the Leslie being too loud, and on electric guitar added some woolliness instead of grit/spit/grind. VPRE-562A: This might be my favorite. It's got the most flexibility, and sounds great on every source. Probably a bit more "amp" sounding than "preamp" sounding, but the EQ's are amazing and in 5 seconds you can really change the sound of a source.
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Post by Guitar on Oct 31, 2021 8:29:02 GMT -6
I bought all the Fuse Audio stuff I didn’t own except the amp sim and Dozer pedal (I have so much of that stuff already I don’t use). Fug it. It’s really unique stuff. I haven’t spent much time with the amp, but the Dozer is really something special even if you have a bunch of stomp boxes. It’s incredibly heavy on guitars and instant Yeezus on drum machines. I agree. Dozer is so good it makes me want to build a hardware pedal with a similar layout. Tube screamer, fuzz face, and I would put an octave up in the middle. It's on the list of things to try to create. But yeah, Dozer is top shelf!
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Post by tkaitkai on Oct 31, 2021 9:39:42 GMT -6
Yep, I also discovered Dozer a few weeks ago, and it's pretty magical. I really love using it in parallel as a way to add "weight" without sounding EQ'd. It's honestly kind of incredible how well it accomplishes this.
Turn fat mode on, crank the screamer level + gain until it sounds muffled/dark, add a touch of high end "fizz" with the fuzz side, and use a plugin wrapper like Patchwork. Set the mix to 15 - 30% and voila. Instant lower midrange thickness.
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Post by subspace on Oct 31, 2021 9:53:10 GMT -6
Felt a little incomplete having the Fuse reverb, delay, EQ and preamp freebies but none of his comps, so I picked up the VCL-864U limiter!
Edit: Also just popped over to Black Rooster's site and signed up for the newsletter for $15 off the Halloween sale on the VPRE-73.
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Post by gouge on Oct 31, 2021 15:55:53 GMT -6
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Post by gouge on Nov 2, 2021 16:04:38 GMT -6
plugin boutique have sonnox and izotope sales. 50-95% etc.
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Post by bikescene on Nov 2, 2021 17:55:29 GMT -6
I’m going to get the free Fuse plugins from the Focusrite website.
Not a huge discount, but the Shure SM7B just got a temporary discount of $40 at $360 at all retailers for the month. I’m kind of tempted but am saving up for a M160.
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Post by bossanova on Nov 2, 2021 18:14:08 GMT -6
iZotope is getting worse than Waves now with sales that have an expiration date then never actually seem to end. They had been doing it off and on with the Exponential Reverbs for a while and now the Tonal Balance Bundle keeps carrying over from one month to another. (I wanted to upgrade to Ozone 9 Advanced last month without being on the hook for a long term subscription, and they got me with the bundle.)
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Post by superwack on Nov 2, 2021 18:29:14 GMT -6
iZotope is getting worse than Waves now with sales that have an expiration date then never actually seem to end. They had been doing it off and on with the Exponential Reverbs for a while and now the Tonal Balance Bundle keeps carrying over from one month to another. (I wanted to upgrade to Ozone 9 Advanced last month without being on the hook for a long term subscription, and they got me with the bundle.) This is 100% speculation on my part but I think that iZotope has abandoned most of the exponential products. They didn’t have a good reverb so they bought exponential audio and then released stratus and symphony and since then there’s been no update to R2/R4, Nimbus, Phoenix, or Excalibur and all of them have been on sale for $9.99 at various times. IZotope are now releasing their own reverbs (neoverb) and they haven’t bothered adding any of the exponential products to their product portal installer even though they’ve owned exponential for 2.5 years now. They are still great plugins that are a steal at $10 (I own them all) but it feels like iZotope is getting new money for old rope at this point.
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Post by kcatthedog on Nov 2, 2021 19:09:23 GMT -6
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Post by javamad on Nov 2, 2021 19:18:15 GMT -6
From that article ^^
“ There’s one rule when it comes to saving money, you only save money if you were intending to buy it in the first place”
So true.
This year I prepped one or two things like the Sonnox Oxford gate .. been very useful on a couple of projects in trial mode and has made the grade. Certainly a good companion to the Pro-G which i had been using until recently. I also have the API Console Emulation in Luna now with sidechain … seems a diffrent beast altogether and rather fun timi dxperience.
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Post by the other mark williams on Nov 2, 2021 20:58:25 GMT -6
iZotope is getting worse than Waves now with sales that have an expiration date then never actually seem to end. They had been doing it off and on with the Exponential Reverbs for a while and now the Tonal Balance Bundle keeps carrying over from one month to another. (I wanted to upgrade to Ozone 9 Advanced last month without being on the hook for a long term subscription, and they got me with the bundle.) This is 100% speculation on my part but I think that iZotope has abandoned most of the exponential products. They didn’t have a good reverb so they bought exponential audio and then released stratus and symphony and since then there’s been no update to R2/R4, Nimbus, Phoenix, or Excalibur and all of them have been on sale for $9.99 at various times. IZotope are now releasing their own reverbs (neoverb) and they haven’t bothered adding any of the exponential products to their product portal installer even though they’ve owned exponential for 2.5 years now. They are still great plugins that are a steal at $10 (I own them all) but it feels like iZotope is getting new money for old rope at this point. Well, I would think @exponentialaudio himself could speak to that better than anyone, but my understanding is that iZotope were using some of the Exponential algos in Neoverb. I may be wrong on that, though.
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Post by Blackdawg on Nov 2, 2021 21:08:43 GMT -6
iZotope is getting worse than Waves now with sales that have an expiration date then never actually seem to end. They had been doing it off and on with the Exponential Reverbs for a while and now the Tonal Balance Bundle keeps carrying over from one month to another. (I wanted to upgrade to Ozone 9 Advanced last month without being on the hook for a long term subscription, and they got me with the bundle.) This is 100% speculation on my part but I think that iZotope has abandoned most of the exponential products. They didn’t have a good reverb so they bought exponential audio and then released stratus and symphony and since then there’s been no update to R2/R4, Nimbus, Phoenix, or Excalibur and all of them have been on sale for $9.99 at various times. IZotope are now releasing their own reverbs (neoverb) and they haven’t bothered adding any of the exponential products to their product portal installer even though they’ve owned exponential for 2.5 years now. They are still great plugins that are a steal at $10 (I own them all) but it feels like iZotope is getting new money for old rope at this point. Status was already out? i have that like 3 years before Izotope bought them..
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Post by gouge on Nov 2, 2021 23:17:46 GMT -6
relab lx480 is on sale..
anyone used this reverb.
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Post by superwack on Nov 2, 2021 23:27:16 GMT -6
This is 100% speculation on my part but I think that iZotope has abandoned most of the exponential products. They didn’t have a good reverb so they bought exponential audio and then released stratus and symphony and since then there’s been no update to R2/R4, Nimbus, Phoenix, or Excalibur and all of them have been on sale for $9.99 at various times. IZotope are now releasing their own reverbs (neoverb) and they haven’t bothered adding any of the exponential products to their product portal installer even though they’ve owned exponential for 2.5 years now. They are still great plugins that are a steal at $10 (I own them all) but it feels like iZotope is getting new money for old rope at this point. Status was already out? i have that like 3 years before Izotope bought them.. You know, I think you are right! Looks like 2017... There are way too many similar Exponential Reverbs to keep track of. Well then, to clarify then they haven't updated those EITHER! LOL. Sorry about that. I still stand behind my suspicion they did what everyone does these days and bought Exponential for the tech behind it to jump start their reverbs. Appreciate the correction.
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Post by gouge on Nov 3, 2021 2:43:41 GMT -6
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Post by kcatthedog on Nov 3, 2021 2:51:45 GMT -6
relab lx480 is on sale.. anyone used this reverb. It’s very good. I think Martin is using it.
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