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Looking for

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:59 pm
by radek tymecki
I'm looking for VST or stg that'll give to my mix some analog warmth.... sb can help me?

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:55 pm
by BnM
What is your budget or would you prefer some freebies ...

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:01 pm
by radek tymecki
both :D

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:27 pm
by BnM
Freebies

Sound on sound forum Free Recommended software

KVR Plug-in end of year rated survey Free and Purchaseable

MadTracker forum free VST plugins

KVR Free Plug-in database



Before spending your hard earned cash
there are *cough* *cough* warez software cracks
ahem ... who mentioned that.

Maybe worth auditioning then buying what you like.

Also
List of Plug-ins : Free, Share, Demo

Large list of VSt Plug-ins, Free,, Purchaseable

BUT if you want to spend
the PSP range is usualyy pretty neat eg. PSP VintageWarmer.

Also iZotope's Ozone 3 which is what LeoDav is using, I think ..
it is a mastering software but with analogue modeling.

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:04 am
by LeoDaV
PSP VintageWarmer

Izotope Ozone 3 is also a good choise but it's rather transparent.

Any tube simulation plugin (Amplitube, Slayer, Blue etc.. even the standard Tube from SX)

J.

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:12 am
by BnM
Yaeh ...
this is free
TubeBaby

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:19 am
by AMR
Well...

Here goes sort of an "industry secret", hardly a secret, but just not *that* known (yet?), and it's, by very very far, the best audio enhancing tool I've ever used... weird I rarely hear anything about it...

http://www.crysonic.com/spectralive.html

It does not add "color", it keeps the signal's phase with no distortion, it add's kinda like what you add to your vision when you place yellow lenses in front of them: clarity and warmth. You can over-do-it, but try to look at it as sugar, salt and spice...

...just that bit more and it's ruined, that bit less and it could be better...

IMHO, it's a bargain and these guys don't know what they have... but you can test the demo and see if it's the kind of "warmth" you're looking for - it does not distort, it's "transparent" warmth, if one could call it that.

Ozone 3 is (finally) transparent, totally and period: just don't use the exciters... the analog EQ modelling is the finest of finest, if you count off Waves EQ's. I don't like the compressers that much but I love the inteligent loudness maximizer (which I don't use) - it won't warm up (or cold down) the sound though - but we're talking warmth here, so forget this.

IK's T-Racks24 mastering package is very warm, but stops at 48 khz, it's not as intuitive as SpectraLive and induces typical transistor analog phase distortion, which you may want, and should add only once, in all at the same time, preferably, not to have phase problems, and it's a mastering tool like Ozone, SpectraLive is just an effect.

All "tube modelling" most VSTs are too... er... "what can I do with this?" IMHO... But I happen to like (love) BlueTubes, don't really know why, they sound... cool (authentic, transparent and as sweet and round as the real things... but that's not analog warmth, it's tube warmth - clean and sweet, not grainy and fat - try Steinberg's Magneto for the later, a well saturated tape maybe your kind of warmth - not transistor, nor tube).

(GeeJee - here you go, you wanted info on warming up, here's above the main thread, follow up ;-) )

Kind Regards,
AMR
http://www.alvaromrocha.com

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:30 pm
by GeeJee
Oh yeah, I did, thanks :) :D