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Post by indiehouse on Dec 5, 2023 12:25:44 GMT -6
the UA 175/176 are pretty nice. I probably use them more often than the Fairchilds. I've got a $25 off coupon which makes this plug like 15 bucks. Dag, I really don't need it, but... |
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Post by drumsound on Dec 5, 2023 12:48:11 GMT -6
the UA 175/176 are pretty nice. I probably use them more often than the Fairchilds. Tell me about these, please. |
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Post by geoff738 on Dec 5, 2023 12:53:21 GMT -6
the UA 175/176 are pretty nice. I probably use them more often than the Fairchilds. I've got a $25 off coupon which makes this plug like 15 bucks. Dag, I really don't need it, but... I’m in the same boat. That’s a couple pints. That I also don’t need. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by ab101 on Dec 5, 2023 13:01:46 GMT -6
I actually like the UAD Fairchild. It is useful on many applications. Of course, one can demo it and find out if it is useful.
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Post by ragan on Dec 5, 2023 13:02:34 GMT -6
I got the 175/176 in the big bundle. They weren’t particularly on my radar but I’m quite impressed with them.
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Post by mike on Dec 5, 2023 13:19:55 GMT -6
I actually like the UAD Fairchild. It is useful on many applications. Of course, one can demo it and find out if it is useful. Same... |
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Post by Johnkenn on Dec 5, 2023 13:27:41 GMT -6
the UA 175/176 are pretty nice. I probably use them more often than the Fairchilds. Tell me about these, please. If you want a crushed drumbus...that 175 is the ticket. |
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Post by doubledog on Dec 5, 2023 16:07:38 GMT -6
Tell me about these, please. If you want a crushed drumbus...that 175 is the ticket. I would describe them both as "thick". sometimes fuzzy. more so than the 1176 (that they are the predecessor of - in real life - not plugin life...) |
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Post by geoff738 on Dec 12, 2023 11:48:34 GMT -6
Plug-in Alliance has most of their stuff at $30 for up to three of their plugs. Until next Friday I think? And, they got me again. Picked up the Chandler amp. Haven’t played with it yet but hoping it’s a bit of a different flavour from the usual suspects.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by ab101 on Dec 12, 2023 13:23:50 GMT -6
If someone sees the Black Salt Silencer on sale, please advise. I think it is $49 currently.
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Post by ragan on Dec 12, 2023 14:07:27 GMT -6
They seem to run frequent sales. I’m assuming there will be another big sale around Christmas, at which time I’ll be picking up Low Control. Or hell maybe the whole bundle.
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Post by subspace on Dec 12, 2023 16:00:29 GMT -6
Plug-in Alliance has most of their stuff at $30 for up to three of their plugs. Until next Friday I think? And, they got me again. Picked up the Chandler amp. Haven’t played with it yet but hoping it’s a bit of a different flavour from the usual suspects. Cheers, Geoff I have most of their stuff for sale in the classifieds for 5 bucks each... |
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Post by geoff738 on Dec 13, 2023 13:02:47 GMT -6
Plug-in Alliance has most of their stuff at $30 for up to three of their plugs. Until next Friday I think? And, they got me again. Picked up the Chandler amp. Haven’t played with it yet but hoping it’s a bit of a different flavour from the usual suspects. Cheers, Geoff Just a quick update. Ends today, not Friday as I stated. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by tasteliketape on Dec 14, 2023 13:36:53 GMT -6
If someone sees the Black Salt Silencer on sale, please advise. I think it is $49 currently. All Black Salt plugins 30% off sale 12 days of Christmas |
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Post by ab101 on Dec 14, 2023 15:06:51 GMT -6
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Post by viciousbliss on Dec 15, 2023 12:50:38 GMT -6
Quiet Art is having their 50% off sale. Yesterday I was trying hardware compressors at the mix stage for the first time. It was a real eye-opener. All of a sudden my mixes were significantly wider, popped out of the cheap speakers, better punch, better clarity, more natural frequency balance. Anyway, after I hit the commit button, I noticed the faders were moving. It had turned automation back on that I had written with Waverider some time back. And it sounded really good. Stuff that I had been having issues with keeping the volume even now was almost perfectly even. Before when being completely ITB at the mix stage I felt like Waverider and plugin compressors were too much. The plugins that I felt held up the best were MolotGE for tracks and Mike-E on busses. Those must be on sale. Quiet Art also has Defaulter for Windows now and I am going to try that. quietart.co.nz/ |
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Dec 15, 2023 13:56:28 GMT -6
Quiet Art is having their 50% off sale. Yesterday I was trying hardware compressors at the mix stage for the first time. It was a real eye-opener. All of a sudden my mixes were significantly wider, popped out of the cheap speakers, better punch, better clarity, more natural frequency balance. Anyway, after I hit the commit button, I noticed the faders were moving. It had turned automation back on that I had written with Waverider some time back. And it sounded really good. Stuff that I had been having issues with keeping the volume even now was almost perfectly even. Before when being completely ITB at the mix stage I felt like Waverider and plugin compressors were too much. The plugins that I felt held up the best were MolotGE for tracks and Mike-E on busses. Those must be on sale. Quiet Art also has Defaulter for Windows now and I am going to try that. quietart.co.nz/I've never had a tool like this but always been curious. It looks amazing. What's the catch? (Talking about Wave Rider). |
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Post by viciousbliss on Dec 15, 2023 14:37:00 GMT -6
Quiet Art is having their 50% off sale. Yesterday I was trying hardware compressors at the mix stage for the first time. It was a real eye-opener. All of a sudden my mixes were significantly wider, popped out of the cheap speakers, better punch, better clarity, more natural frequency balance. Anyway, after I hit the commit button, I noticed the faders were moving. It had turned automation back on that I had written with Waverider some time back. And it sounded really good. Stuff that I had been having issues with keeping the volume even now was almost perfectly even. Before when being completely ITB at the mix stage I felt like Waverider and plugin compressors were too much. The plugins that I felt held up the best were MolotGE for tracks and Mike-E on busses. Those must be on sale. Quiet Art also has Defaulter for Windows now and I am going to try that. quietart.co.nz/I've never had a tool like this but always been curious. It looks amazing. What's the catch? (Talking about Wave Rider). Waverider works through HUI. I believe it has to be the last insert and that you may need to watch latency of plugins placed beforehand. I was working off old automation that wasn't even following the hardware compression I added though. Usually I keep the soft range ratio almost at the far left and loud range ratio arrow almost at the far right. Park level around -20. Classic mode. I'm using V3 but I don't think V4 had any real changes beyond the layout and some updates for MAC OS. It's pretty flexible if you use conservative settings. You just have to try settings and see what works for you. |
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Dec 15, 2023 14:39:31 GMT -6
I've never had a tool like this but always been curious. It looks amazing. What's the catch? (Talking about Wave Rider). Waverider works through HUI. I believe it has to be the last insert and that you may need to watch latency of plugins placed beforehand. I was working off old automation that wasn't even following the hardware compression I added though. Usually I keep the soft range ratio almost at the far left and loud range ratio arrow almost at the far right. Park level around -20. Classic mode. I'm using V3 but I don't think V4 had any real changes beyond the layout and some updates for MAC OS. It's pretty flexible if you use conservative settings. You just have to try settings and see what works for you. Watched a demo. Seems like best practice is to use it first and then either print it or do all the plugins/effects on a bus. Makes sense. |
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Post by viciousbliss on Dec 15, 2023 14:45:21 GMT -6
Waverider works through HUI. I believe it has to be the last insert and that you may need to watch latency of plugins placed beforehand. I was working off old automation that wasn't even following the hardware compression I added though. Usually I keep the soft range ratio almost at the far left and loud range ratio arrow almost at the far right. Park level around -20. Classic mode. I'm using V3 but I don't think V4 had any real changes beyond the layout and some updates for MAC OS. It's pretty flexible if you use conservative settings. You just have to try settings and see what works for you. Watched a demo. Seems like best practice is to use it first and then either print it or do all the plugins/effects on a bus. Makes sense. I set Threshold around -30 on loud and -40 on soft. You have to deactive DSP plugins that are inserted before it if I recall. |
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Post by thehightenor on Dec 17, 2023 1:48:52 GMT -6
I just bought The Farm stone drum room plugin by IK. Been eyeing it up but $80 seemed a bit steep - it’s on sale for $30  Sounds great with the Collins kit in the Hit Maker SDX if you want the big Collins drum sound. Fun plugin. |
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Post by chessparov on Dec 17, 2023 11:55:50 GMT -6
Much more fun than buying the Farm alone.
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Post by bossanova on Dec 17, 2023 21:32:20 GMT -6
I am having my usual post Black Friday/XMas hangover. I listened to my favorite of my own recordings from last year (and the last one I released before taking a break for most of this year) , and was reminded that I made it with both A. a minimum of plugins (Slick EQ, RVox, iZotope Doubler, Amplitube, R4, Ozone) and B. Nothing I bought this year is *better* than those. Different, yeah, but largely more delays, more reverbs, more compressors (I think I stopped at two there if you don’t count Studio Max), more choruses, more fairy dust saturation.
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Post by kcatthedog on Dec 18, 2023 17:36:39 GMT -6
After a couple of sales, what plugs do we really need: very few, if any.
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Post by theboris on Dec 19, 2023 9:23:13 GMT -6
After a couple of sales, what plugs do we really need: very few, if any. I certainly don't NEED LTL Silver Bullet, but I was hoping to pick it up by EOY. PA just discounted it $100 for $250, which is still way too rich for my blood. And so, my humble recordings will do without! Maybe next year... |
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