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Post by Dan on May 10, 2024 9:49:11 GMT -6
It like so many tape substitutes wows at first, but after a while you realize it’s just saturation and distortion. You put it next to the Ampex and realize it’s not really the sound of tape. Fatso costs 2000 bucks and only has 4 ways to hide poor recordings: the compression, the box saturation, the intentionally crappy transformer, and the warmth high frequency limiter. Decapitator costs 200 bucks and has 5 ways. An ART VLA costs 400 bucks and has 3 ways: a little bit doing almost anything, a lot of compression taking the top off, or clipping it. |
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Post by sentientsound on May 10, 2024 11:29:56 GMT -6
PSP Saturator has a bunch of color on tap and can also do clipping, high frequency softening and more adjustable low end enhancement. It's worth a look if you want some good textual options (doesn't have a comparable compression function though).
The HW Fatso sounded significantly better to me than the UAD version, plus with a cheap stereo graphic EQ in the side chain you can control the saturation vs compression transition and roll off the lows for even heavier low end to come through. It's a pity the plugin doesn't have external sidechain input.
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Post by nicksteinborn on May 10, 2024 15:25:35 GMT -6
I'll probably only grab this if they ever update it to native or at least a newer version with a resizable GUI. I tried to demo it some months back and the plugin window was teeny tiny on my 1440p monitor. Is this thing made for ants? UA finally made resizable GUIs a reality in April. Took forever, like everything else they do, but it did finally happen last month. MacOS only though... All the native plugs are resizable on PC.. but not the DSP ones? All that hubbub about upgrading to VST3 and they're still not resizable. I mostly use the native stuff I have these days anyway, but a weird move on their end. |
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Post by Quint on May 10, 2024 15:46:51 GMT -6
UA finally made resizable GUIs a reality in April. Took forever, like everything else they do, but it did finally happen last month. MacOS only though... All the native plugs are resizable on PC.. but not the DSP ones? All that hubbub about upgrading to VST3 and they're still not resizable. I mostly use the native stuff I have these days anyway, but a weird move on their end. Correct. Only for Mac OS, for now. UA claims it's because "it's harder to develop for PC". They still charge PC users the same amount of money though. Seems to me that PC users are within their rights to expect equal treatment and speed/level of development as that which has occured for Mac OS, but that's not how it's been. I'll keep saying it. UA either needs to shit or get off the pot when it comes to supporting and developing PC. So either do it for real or just stop marketing/selling to PC users altogether. |
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Post by prene1 on May 10, 2024 16:49:52 GMT -6
The hardware is much cleaner.
One of my favorite pieces.
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Post by kbb on May 12, 2024 19:51:39 GMT -6
Great piece of hardware. Plugin is pretty “meh” this 100%. The real one is better sounding than a distressor The hardware Fatso seemed like magic years ago. It was basically a "make whatever you put through it sound much bigger" sort of box. |
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