Plugin Deals and Discussion Thread

Cirrus

Nah I've got loads of stuff recently but I'm more interested in the discussion than the deals side of the thread 

I'm on a massive Airwindows kick at the moment - Busscolors4 is *amazing* saturation, ADclip7 is silly good and such a great implementation of a clipper, Console 5 has become an automatic addition to sessions and I'm also using the chorus and vibrato options. I'm also using "NotJustAnotherDither" in place of Studio One's default dither on the output post-master fader.

PA's Focusrite channel strip is getting loads of use, Lindell's TE-100 EQ makes me ill with joy for midrange boosts that add character.

On the deals front, I'm demoing IK's Leslie emulation just now - it's half price until the start of September. Still not *that* cheap it is really good and I've surprised myself how often I use leslie sims to add texture and movement to otherwise static pad sounds.

octatonic

Forgive the spam but I've just posted an article about the incoming Empirical Labs Big Freq.

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/8/14/empirical-labs-gives-a-sneak-peek-of-their-new-big-freq-plug-in

I have a fair bit of EL hardware and I love their Arouser plugin.
This will be a hit.

Cirrus

Nice to have that option to flatten out the bell curve tops - I think that's what I love about the Lindell 100 midrange boosts.

octatonic

Cirrus said:

Nice to have that option to flatten out the bell curve tops - I think that's what I love about the Lindell 100 midrange boosts.

It seems to be a really well thought out product.
3pm can't come soon enough- insta-buy for me.

Shark_Eyes

Haven't seen this free Waves distortion Plugin mentioned yet: https://reverb.com/uk/news/video-get-the-waves-berzerk-stereo-distortion-plugin-for-free

The video on the page does a really bad job at showing it off, this one is much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhnRHR4Q3k

PolarityMan

Slate trigger seems to be on at $49..is this worth having? Ive been getting by with an ancient drumagog and the reaper midi to audio thing but I know slate is basically the standard. 

octatonic

PolarityMan said:

Slate trigger seems to be on at $49..is this worth having? Ive been getting by with an ancient drumagog and the reaper midi to audio thing but I know slate is basically the standard. 

Yes, buy it.

Freebird

Cirrus said:

Nah I've got loads of stuff recently but I'm more interested in the discussion than the deals side of the thread 

I'm on a massive Airwindows kick at the moment - Busscolors4 is *amazing* saturation, ADclip7 is silly good and such a great implementation of a clipper, Console 5 has become an automatic addition to sessions and I'm also using the chorus and vibrato options. I'm also using "NotJustAnotherDither" in place of Studio One's default dither on the output post-master fader.

PA's Focusrite channel strip is getting loads of use, Lindell's TE-100 EQ makes me ill with joy for midrange boosts that add character.

On the deals front, I'm demoing IK's Leslie emulation just now - it's half price until the start of September. Still not *that* cheap it is really good and I've surprised myself how often I use leslie sims to add texture and movement to otherwise static pad sound.

I use Nebula consoles for bus colouration, but I do have PurestConsole on the master bus for a bit of 3D sparkle. I need to have a poke around in his other stuff though, as I am a big fan of minimal interfaces.

WiresDreamDisasters

Cirrus said:

I'm on a massive Airwindows kick at the moment 

I think you might have mentioned it before. Once or twice.

Cirrus

Have you had a look at how the console channels and bus system works @Freebird ;? I love it. The only annoyance is no post-fader inserts in S1 so I end up needing to create a virtual summing mixer out of busses between the actual mix channels and busses and the master. I've got it down now but to start with... totally messed with my head.

The idea of the bus *undistorting/expanding/speeding up slew rate* to undo what the channels add is genius, because what you get is phase incoherence between all the channels being summed leaving distortion from the channel version at lower levels in the mix - which pulls your ears into the body of the sound, rather than the usual thing of peaks being saturated.

Have heard really good things about Nebula, but never really looked into it - I read it's quite CPU intensive and until recently my DAW PC just wouldn't have handled it.

I need to try purest console at some point. I'm in the middle of mixing an album though, so I'm going to stick to 5 for consistency for now...

WiresDreamDisasters

Shark_Eyes said:

Haven't seen this free Waves distortion Plugin mentioned yet: https://reverb.com/uk/news/video-get-the-waves-berzerk-stereo-distortion-plugin-for-free

The video on the page does a really bad job at showing it off, this one is much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhnRHR4Q3k

For some reason the thumbnail of that video reminded me of this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmD4MyGzCI

Shark_Eyes

@WiresDreamDisasters ; they could be related!

Freebird

Shark_Eyes said:

Haven't seen this free Waves distortion Plugin mentioned yet: https://reverb.com/uk/news/video-get-the-waves-berzerk-stereo-distortion-plugin-for-free

Where do you find the serial number?

Edit: found it.

PolarityMan

octatonic said:

PolarityMan said:

Slate trigger seems to be on at $49..is this worth having? Ive been getting by with an ancient drumagog and the reaper midi to audio thing but I know slate is basically the standard. 

Yes, buy it.

fuck it why not..I just bought GGD invasion yesterday to give myself a bit of a different pallette from BFD3 too so lots of fun drum options for me for the next couple of weeks.

octatonic

Big FrEQ has been released for $99- or about £79.
I bought it as soon as it was released.

It is fantastic and a stone cold bargain.
To be clear, I've got a pair of the hardware version and they are over £5k at retail.
$99 for a plugin this good is just incredible.

Cirrus

IK Tapes are 1/2 price. Still not cheap, but... they're very very good.

WiresDreamDisasters

octatonic said:

Big FrEQ has been released for $99- or about £79.
I bought it as soon as it was released.

It is fantastic and a stone cold bargain.
To be clear, I've got a pair of the hardware version and they are over £5k at retail.
$99 for a plugin this good is just incredible.

What does it offer that other EQ's don't? I know it has a saturation circuit built in at the output, but apart from that... how does it compare with something like Fabfilter Pro-Q?

octatonic

Pro Q has a different interface- I use that a lot as my general use clean EQ.
It has many more filter types but doesn't allow for slope and width adjustment in the same way.

Download the demo and see if you like it.
I like it because it gives me something close to the Lil Freq sound in a plugin.
I'm also expecting to to come out as AAX DSP, like Arouser is.
It is still technically a 'pre-release' product- the actual launch is coming in a few weeks.

WiresDreamDisasters

Ah right.

I got an NFR for Arouser in the end. But I don't like it as much as the UAD Distressor.

octatonic

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Ah right.

I got an NFR for Arouser in the end. But I don't like it as much as the UAD Distressor.

How come?