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Post by jtc111 on Jan 27, 2019 12:05:39 GMT -6
I love when NAMM comes around and I pay attention to the releases, but nothing I've seen from this one has me excited. The Audio-Scape V-Comp has me interested but I knew that was coming a month ago so my brain isn't counting it as a NAMM release. Outside of that, nothing. I'm getting away cheap this year.
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Post by Ward on Jan 27, 2019 12:40:47 GMT -6
If you’re at NAMM, come by our booth and check out the new CAPI Platinum line of pres! You can listen through a vintage m269 and our new H47 Tube mic. Booth 10828 / I was REALLY impressed by this preamp! It is VERY colored, in the way we like. Colored leading to a unique character. Absolutely fantastic on a microphone for voice-over. Low end really breathes heavy , the extra-high end is a little muted to give the presence band some really nice sparkle and clarity , and there's some scooping going on in the middle that makes it sound really 'announcer'-like. Granted, I only got to audition on headphones but I liked what I heard!! Great microphones didn't hurt either!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 12:37:02 GMT -6
Behringer Crave. I'd never buy one but they are making it harder and harder, $199!!!
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Post by donr on Jan 28, 2019 14:15:08 GMT -6
Talked to Steven Slate briefly Friday. I like him and think he’s a net positive for the business, the audio craft and the music.
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Post by donr on Jan 28, 2019 14:25:48 GMT -6
This was cool. Put it on every DAW channel and then you can grab all your eq’s, comps and gates, and faders displayed on the screen at once. The faders are independent of your DAW faders, however, so you’d set them at unity and mix from the CLA screen. You can also insert any other plugin within the CLA environment. The workflow is like a large analog console. You can automate everything and assign anything to external controllers via midi.
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Post by donr on Jan 29, 2019 0:14:26 GMT -6
Adam (Spock) and me looking into my iPhone, which was propped up on a rack of expensive Chandler gear. The TG mic was on display, and Adam played me a series of clips comparing the TG to industry workhorses. The Chandler made each source sound a bit more 'you are there" real and likely more flattering to the source than it actually sounded to the ears in the room. I've never heard any Chandler stuff make anything sound worse than it was. The opposite.
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Post by donr on Jan 29, 2019 0:33:18 GMT -6
Michael Brauer and Tchad Blake at MixWithTheMasters. Michael was saying the way he mixes a song is just put the faders up and let the song tell him where to go with it, rather than dive into his signature style. He and Tchad also said that since they've got 10's of thousands of hours doing this, they know how to avoid pitfalls and be efficient at the job. I'm a fan of both these guys. Zoom in on the poster to the left of Michael, look who appeared there. Geez, teh MASTERS. I was lucky to catch Brauer and Blake.
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Post by ragan on Jan 29, 2019 1:20:42 GMT -6
Michael Brauer and Tchad Blake at MixWithTheMasters. Michael was saying the way he mixes a song is just put the faders up and let the song tell him where to go with it, rather than dive into his signature style. He and Tchad also said that since they've got 10's of thousands of hours doing this, they know how to avoid pitfalls and be efficient at the job. I'm a fan of both these guys. Zoom in on the poster to the left of Michael, look who appeared there. Geez, teh MASTERS. I was lucky to catch Brauer and Blake. That's great. Tchad Blake is a sonic hero of mine.
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Post by subspace on Feb 7, 2019 8:14:42 GMT -6
This was cool. Put it on every DAW channel and then you can grab all your eq’s, comps and gates, and faders displayed on the screen at once. The faders are independent of your DAW faders, however, so you’d set them at unity and mix from the CLA screen. You can also insert any other plugin within the CLA environment. The workflow is like a large analog console. You can automate everything and assign anything to external controllers via midi. I just impulse bought this. My Audient is an 8 channel HUI controller so I organize all my sessions in 8 channel groups so I can bank up and down the session and always see what's on the faders. The Audient has no EQ/gates/compressors so this just seemed like a natural workflow fit. Only thing stopping me was it's Waves and I don't WUP. Audiodeluxe stacked a 50% off code 'TODAY50' on top of their auto-applied 'WINTER2018' code so mixhub is $30.79 today, sold.
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Post by Guitar on Feb 7, 2019 8:20:10 GMT -6
This was cool. Put it on every DAW channel and then you can grab all your eq’s, comps and gates, and faders displayed on the screen at once. The faders are independent of your DAW faders, however, so you’d set them at unity and mix from the CLA screen. You can also insert any other plugin within the CLA environment. The workflow is like a large analog console. You can automate everything and assign anything to external controllers via midi. I just impulse bought this. My Audient is an 8 channel HUI controller so I organize all my sessions in 8 channel groups so I can bank up and down the session and always see what's on the faders. The Audient has no EQ/gates/compressors so this just seemed like a natural workflow fit. Only thing stopping me was it's Waves and I don't WUP. Audiodeluxe stacked a 50% off code 'TODAY50' on top of their auto-applied 'WINTER2018' code so mixhub is $30.79 today, sold. Wow that's a hot tip! Ordered.... gonna compare this to my UAD
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Post by sirthought on Feb 8, 2019 4:37:52 GMT -6
This guy's review of CLA Mixbus is pretty critical. I think he makes a lot of good points. They should be selling this with a control device.
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Post by Vincent R. on Feb 8, 2019 10:59:43 GMT -6
He makes some solid points.
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Post by Blackdawg on Feb 8, 2019 11:21:08 GMT -6
This guy's review of CLA Mixbus is pretty critical. I think he makes a lot of good points. They should be selling this with a control device. Sorry, but that is a terrible review. He is missing the point on a lot of it. You're not supposed to mix with you damn eyes. You mix with your ears. To me, he has obvioulsy never worked on a real console to understand the idea behind the buckets either. Not saying I have this plugin, I don't, and don't plan on getting it. But his points don't make sense and aren't real negatives once you have set it up right. To me that is the biggest issues, setup time. Unless you're using a good template, be a PITA to setup every time. And no solo and mute is also silly I'll agree with that.
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Post by Guitar on Feb 8, 2019 11:29:58 GMT -6
"They should make the Softube Console 1"
No, that's uhh.... already been covered...by softube
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Post by Quint on Feb 8, 2019 12:35:45 GMT -6
Acustica seems to be working on something similar themselves. Though I don't think it has "buckets" and is intended to just be one long row of strips that you can scroll through.
I do think the guy makes a valid point about tactile control being the thing that really makes mixing faster versus the bucket concept.
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Post by Blackdawg on Feb 8, 2019 13:11:38 GMT -6
I agree with that too. Anything hands on is faster vs clicking through.
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Post by sirthought on Feb 8, 2019 22:38:02 GMT -6
This guy's review of CLA Mixbus is pretty critical. I think he makes a lot of good points. They should be selling this with a control device. Sorry, but that is a terrible review. He is missing the point on a lot of it. You're not supposed to mix with you damn eyes. You mix with your ears. To me, he has obvioulsy never worked on a real console to understand the idea behind the buckets either. Not saying I have this plugin, I don't, and don't plan on getting it. But his points don't make sense and aren't real negatives once you have set it up right. To me that is the biggest issues, setup time. Unless you're using a good template, be a PITA to setup every time. And no solo and mute is also silly I'll agree with that. His whole studio is based around an old rare Neuman console and analog gear. His studio is actually really nice. When he does use plugins, he seems to prefer Fabfilter. I think the fact that you have to select tabs and then still reach for knobs, when you are dealing with multiple channels in front of you, is really not a great way to do it, unless you are reaching for physical knobs. Knobs in physical world: great. Knobs in digital: much less great.
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Post by M57 on Feb 9, 2019 5:29:54 GMT -6
His whole studio is based around an old rare Neuman console and analog gear. His studio is actually really nice. When he does use plugins, he seems to prefer Fabfilter. I think the fact that you have to select tabs and then still reach for knobs, when you are dealing with multiple channels in front of you, is really not a great way to do it, unless you are reaching for physical knobs. Knobs in physical world: great. Knobs in digital: much less great. This is similar to the problem I'm having with the Slate Everything Bundle VMR, which has a similar feel (even though it has no buckets), and which I find myself using less and less. Even though I don't have a lot of experience with real gear, I know I don't like virtual knobs. If not for the fact that I'm very comfortable with Slate's Mixbusses, Deesser, and a few other plugs, I feel like I should be ditching it for Console 1. In my dream world, Slate makes a physical console for his plugins. But the reality is that he's going down the touch-screen road, which is probably the better decision from a marketing point of view given that the newer generation of musicians are probably more comfortable in that interface environment - not to mention that many plugins, like the modern graphic EQ, and any plug where functionality is significantly enhanced by graphic feedback, simply can't exist in the physical world without a separate screen for each piece of hardware. Touchscreens are only going to get cheaper, lighter, more flexible (literally - like as in foldable), etc.
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Post by subspace on Feb 9, 2019 8:59:46 GMT -6
To summarize this plug-in as snake oil because it doesn't have an integrated control surface and he can't read the frequencies he's EQing without once mentioning what it sounds like tells me everything I need to know about his opinion. But I'm sure he generates clicks.
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Post by indiehouse on Feb 9, 2019 9:13:38 GMT -6
Michael Brauer and Tchad Blake at MixWithTheMasters. Michael was saying the way he mixes a song is just put the faders up and let the song tell him where to go with it, rather than dive into his signature style. He and Tchad also said that since they've got 10's of thousands of hours doing this, they know how to avoid pitfalls and be efficient at the job. I'm a fan of both these guys. Zoom in on the poster to the left of Michael, look who appeared there. Geez, teh MASTERS. I was lucky to catch Brauer and Blake. That's great. Tchad Blake is a sonic hero of mine. Me too. I really dig his style.
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Post by matt on Feb 9, 2019 17:51:59 GMT -6
Michael was saying the way he mixes a song is just put the faders up and let the song tell him where to go with it He gets very detailed as a mix progresses and does a lot of automated fader rides during final stages. It's something I need to start doing- work with a fader rather than draw-in automation moves. I joined MWTM in part because of his tutorials and adopted his parallel multi-bus technique a while ago. He's definitely one of my biggest influences.
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Post by shoe on Feb 10, 2019 21:48:03 GMT -6
To summarize this plug-in as snake oil because it doesn't have an integrated control surface and he can't read the frequencies he's EQing without once mentioning what it sounds like tells me everything I need to know about his opinion. But I'm sure he generates clicks. The snake oil part is actually the name of his review series. It's about whether or not things are snake oil or if they actually are special compared to other products. Because it's on this series doesn't mean that he concludes that it is indeed snake oil.
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Post by subspace on Feb 10, 2019 23:02:23 GMT -6
To summarize this plug-in as snake oil because it doesn't have an integrated control surface and he can't read the frequencies he's EQing without once mentioning what it sounds like tells me everything I need to know about his opinion. But I'm sure he generates clicks. The snake oil part is actually the name of his review series. It's about whether or not things are snake oil or if they actually are special compared to other products. Because it's on this series doesn't mean that he concludes that it is indeed snake oil. At 12:10 he concluded "it's just plain snake oil" I installed it on the studio machine tonight and tried it on a PT mix from scratch. Once I got 24 strips added and assigned to 3 buckets I started to mix within the plug-in. Didn't think the fader section would be that useful but I ended up setting my starting balances there with my PT faders at unity. Used the desk comp on drums and guitars, bluey comp on bass and vocals plus inserted a second H-comp on the lead. It's a pretty recognizable sound that comes together quickly, I was kinda surprised by it. At 48k and 512 sample buffer, cpu was about 40% on my 2.5GHz quad core i7. I'm going to see how it works in the hybrid subgroup set-up next.
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