Always found eq or HPF to act a little weird on the overall sound but sometimes you just have to do it I've been looking at FAS-FX Reverb lately which seems to be popular with Guitar guys.Īlways had issues with EP stuff esp on some House music, so much that I'd re-evaluate the voicings, and put in rootless voicings or invert the chord but obv that can sound wrong and make it sound like a different progression but in terms of simple stuff like say an F#m9, in typical 'deep house style voicing' F# / E / G# / A / C# that would give me an F# note at around 92hz so I just would play a 2nd inversion EMaj7 instead - same chord minus the root and that then doesn't have any freq information until about 164hz which is a massive clean up really, then I'd just leave the bass to take care of that note. When listening on headphones for the first time, I had to check I didn't have the sound coming through my speakers at the same time as it was fully wet yet still really clean and just sounded 'outside' of my listening. The reverb just has a sound I really like, very natural. But there's this handy 'STEED' section with a delay either syncable or in ms with low mid and hi filtering available, then it has a drive section and a feedback section with modulation, didn't think I would use it much but it's great for some efx and you can bypass the reverb or bypass that efx section and use the combined or independently. There's a bit of a decay control and a low cut and hi cut filter section going into the chamber & then 3 set frequency bands with a +10 / -10 boost available but I hardly ever use any of that. I use the Abbey Road Chambers, think it's great for drums, similarly rudimentary shaping controls but that's not an issue if I print the wet signal and it's that that I like, esp on the 'stone' reverb type. Of the fundamental tones, and adds a lot of highs making the sound overall smoother and fitting into a quite busy mix better I have it on snare/clap bus, guitars, drum buss, rhodes and even bass where it rolls of some of the subįor example: If you play chords in the "normal" chord playing range (ie around and below middle c approx one octave) you will get a large frequency "bump" in the lowish mids where the fundamental frequency of the notes are - as a rhodes sound is somewhat similar to a sine wave, without a lot of overtones higher up. If you are a master at EQIng all sources you won't need it - but for me its great Its very interesting and tends to "flatten out" a sound across the frequency spectrum. I originally used this to tame high end, but now im finding it useful to try it out on most sound sources on the mids and even bass. I like it very much - not very much control over decay times, 4 different plates. Waves abbey road Plate: I have this set up as a simulated drum room. I have it on strings bus - I tried out a few reverbs and found this to be the best for this application To me it sounds more natural, like a real space as opposed to a plate - but ive not experimented much Beautiful interface. Hard to make it sound bad, Great for vocals/drums/anything reallyįabfilter Pro R: Detailed, modern sound. Lexicon vintage plate: Classic sound, warm, versatile. I have on the guitar where the attack phase is too "poppy" and nasty sounding so i low passed the attack portion to take out some of the "clicknyess" then boost overall attack later with another transient sharper Separates the attack and sustain portions you so can EQ individually. Also i have it on the drum bus, to shorten the sustain on the high end (mostly hats)īoz digital labs: This is great. ![]() ![]() Iztotope neutron multi band transient sharper: Clinical precision. ![]() 3 different shapes for attack and sustain I have it on a pretty extreme setting on the guitar on the chorus with high attack and short sustain settings to help the guitar (a rhythmic 16th type sound) really pop through the mix, without taking up too much space with its sutain. Waves smack attack: I really like this one. ![]() Very interested in transient sharpers currently, they seem to be very useful for mixing, like just as useful to me as compression! Especially for rhythmic parts, if you want something to pop through, or vice versa, you want something to sit back slightly Having said that, ive not had a complete track to mix, up to now - for like a year so can only comment on this mix down i'm currently doing really Im one of the people that REALLY enjoys trying out new plug ins, but mostly in the context of mixing something rather than in "isolation"
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