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Separating too early double kicks is a PITA without destroying the cymbals.
Yeah that's an argument for using a kick pad instead of a real kick. Would make life a lot easier in this scenario.
Since I'm assuming you're not going to retrack here's how I'd deal with it.
Put everything as in time as possible that doesn't mess up cymbals. Then start copy pasting sections where he's played it correctly over the parts he's fucked up. Try to not use a part that's chronologically near where you're replacing if possible, that way nobody is going to notice that the same crash hit happens at 1:30 and 3:45 etc. This is there's repeating patterns to work with.
If it really can't be fixed, then ungroup the kick, edit the cymbals and other shells to be right, then draw in a MIDI kick. You'll have to highpass the OH, but if the music is heavy and busy enough you can probably get away with it. If you don't hear any original kick bleeding through with all instruments in it won't matter.
The reason I'd go for copy paste over just redoing an ungrouped kick from the start is that'll preserve the natural timing difference between hands and feet as it was played. It sounds weird to me if the hands and feet hit in perfect unison, even a really tight drummer has some difference between hand and foot even when they sound dead in.
Worst case scenario you'll have to redo it all with samples.
I think i might just trigger samples for just that section.
https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plug-ins/waves-ssl-e-channel-upgrade-ssl-4000-collection
They have cycled multiple $29 dollar plugins recently. Today's is the J37 tape.
The random pricing and endless sales do make a bit of a mockery of their regular pricing, though.
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I think they're kind of stuck in a place where their older plugins are probably too expensive now in the current market, but they don't want to slash the price of their bundles too much further as that'd piss off a lot of people, and also make it harder to justify WUP.
I do like quite a few Waves Plugins but I've never upgraded my Gold bundle - I just add the extras I like as they go on sale. A lot of their lower cost bundles don't contain the juicy stuff and Mercury is crazy $$$$'s, even if there are a lot of plugs in it.
I have no idea why anyone would ever pay full price for anything, unless they absolutely *had* to have a particular plug license right there and then - Over the last 24 months I've picked up J37, NLS, DBX160, BSS DBR-402, Renaissance Bass, Trueverb and Supertap, for on average probably 15-20% of the list price. Just by waiting for things to show up in sales.
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There are multiple business models that seem to work right now.
The subscription model - Slate seem to have gone all in on this, standalone licenses don't seem to be discounted much any more
The rotational larger discount sales model - which Waves seems to really be going for with these recent low priced offers... requires a larger catalogue of offerings (and I guess Waves' catalogue may generate further money through WUP)
The less frequent, lesser discount, larger holidays type sales only model - FabFilter etc
The no sales model - Uhe etc
Thing is once you've had large discounts it kind of shifts perception of the maximum value of the product... if people know it recently sold for considerably less they might not buy something and instead wait for a sale. I definitely see Waves as being seen like that. Whereas if sales are pretty minor discounts or likely 3 months away and you need it now, you're more likely to pay a higher price.
Would be very interesting to actually look at how this works out ££$$ wise for companies. And to see what newer companies manage to make work.. the subscription and larger sale thing seems to work ok for compaines with a bigger catalogue of plugins, but at some point we'll hit saturation point. I don't post on Gearslutz but I do read it occasionally, some of the reaction to the new dynamic EQ from Sonnox IIRC was regarding the price point... not really sure of how representative GS is of the market as a whole but it does seem like price expectation is as low as ever and probably not likely to recover.
http://www.waves.com/subscriptions
But, any time I think "ah, I might get round to selling that"... I check and it's literally always on sale, so what's the point?
Yeah, I'd be interested to see the sales figures too. Soundtoys are a good example. They've had some cracking deals in the past with free or pay-what-you-want lite-versions of their plugins, have the occasional cheaper upgrade price offers, but seem to have better maintained the perception of quality and that their bundle is worth the regular price.
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Plus the SoundToys bundle is awesome.
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By contrast the only waves plugin i have so far is one of the $29 sale ones so fabfilter and soundtoys are more succesful at getting my money.
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