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Post by bluesholyman on May 5, 2024 20:07:21 GMT -6
I noticed this is on sale right now at PA for $30 and its described as adding an aggressive character to mixes, and listening to demos, that is exactly what I hear....and I don't care for it.
Maybe I am missing something in how this can be used so wanted to get others more informed opinions on this particular plugin or even the hardware it emulates.
Thanks.
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Post by bgrotto on May 5, 2024 20:50:50 GMT -6
I noticed this is on sale right now at PA for $30 and its described as adding an aggressive character to mixes, and listening to demos, that is exactly what I hear....and I don't care for it. Maybe I am missing something in how this can be used so wanted to get others more informed opinions on this particular plugin or even the hardware it emulates. Thanks. multi band 2500. the single band thing is definitely more useful IMO, but for the multi band-inclined, I guess this could be cool. I rarely have a need for MB compression (where single band won't work) though. 2500 is good for squishing a drum buss. Love it on toms (that's where my HW generally goes when I'm mixing). Also nice on piano, OHs, room mics of various sources, and sometimes acoustic guitars. |
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Post by Dan on May 6, 2024 6:18:41 GMT -6
Multiband processing ruins the harmonic structure of the music after more than a db or two of gain reduction.
The api 2500 and dbx 160 emulations suck because they don’t emulate the non-linearities of the blackmer rms detector providing additional program dependencies. This includes the Lindell. If you want an api 2500, just buy one. Otherwise use something else and there are a ton of hard hitting plugs out there. Maybe the best api 2500 emulation is the one in dmg track comp but it sounds and works nothing like the hardware and is a cpu hog. I’m not a fan of the other comps in it beyond the zener
Molot, Faraday, Weiss DS1, and even MDWDRC2 can all hammer with a ton of overshoot beyond a slow attack. Molot you can change the curve of the attack to be much slower on the initial transient, Faraday has built in overshoot, Weiss DS1 has attack and release before threshold so hard knees and low preview will overshoot, and mdwdrc2 cannot detect short transients and then will overshoot on harder knees for a huge pump of the hit on drum bus.
Dan
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