Wow I feel like I'm the only one who us digging the steam punk gui. I think it's great and very well laid out. So many people bashing because it's just a bunch of individual plugs rolled into one with less control but thats what a vocal plug is. I like having something else to reach for in case my standard individual ssl go to plugs just ain't doing it for me. Why not. It's not trying to be a replacement for your whole toolkit just another tool. I feel like theres alot of armchair professionals on here bashing it just to bash it. I hate humanity when I read youtube comments sometimes.
@@hankhill5409 IKR, just goes to show you how much the comments change over time. It went from the majority of people hating on it, to most people loving it. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one. 😌
I love that waves gets the actual designers of a plugin to introduce it to the world. Doesn't seem to be a big need for this, but I will check it out. Let's find a way to use it for hip hop vocals
Nawh this nice my homie just put me on if you on some melodic vibey light autotune it mix pretty suave. I'm still learning but definitely a game changer!
Just loaded the plugin and already I'm loving it,this will help me speed up my vocal edit/mixing by alot.Been wanting this for a while and dig that steam punk look too.🗽📼
This demo is a gem. He gives away so much quality information, and when I look at what we get for the money all dialed in with Vig's signature specs the plugin seems like a good value. And why not have fun with the design? The steampunk look is pretty great. What I'd like to know is if I can get away with using this plug-in in 10.6. I've done that with several other Waves plug-ins. This one looks to require 10.8.5... so I'm not sure if I should get it.
Hi Butch Vig! I really wanted Eddie Kramer drums for my free plugin but it wasn’t part of the buy 2 get 1 deal. So I got BVV instead. And it rocks. Love the steampunk interface and I love how it adds character to vocals and guitars and other stuff even more. Great addition to my collection 🤟🏼🤙🏽🌻
its wonderful plugin. its even sound great when i use this for master track or for drum group. the tube and solid state features also unbelievable. cant belive this plugin was 8 years ago.
I just downloaded the demo. I don't think I personally would make this my go-to vocal plugin (just personal taste) but this is an AMAZING drum plugin. The chicken beak EQs... the compression... the tube or solid state options, really all of the controls can help the drums cut through with much more life and color. A very nice surprise to stumble across a vocal plugin that's secretly a GREAT drum plugin.
Something to keep in mind for the non-professionals...the tracks were recorded INCREDIBLY well to begin with. The plugin is great and I love the interface. Its beyond the scope of WAVES but I would love a tutorial on how the tracks were recorded. Adding EQ and compression, etc, with the plugin or without is great, but as they say, you can't polish a turd.
Overall it seems like a great go-to pluggin for upping the excitement on an average vocal. All the tools you'd typically use huddled together in one unit minus the spatial. I'm a fan of the UI. Very spaced out and detailed while also being "mood-setting". I'm sure it reminds the clients that you "are" doing something fantastic there on the computer thing..
I love this plugin for the Tube distortion but the rub is that it's a CPU hog. Is there a low-CPU alternative to this plugin? A tube saturation plugin that sounds similar?
I used to work at a studio that had ALL of the Waves plugins (and a ton of others). When I started my own place I bought the Fab Filter bundle which gives me pretty much everything I need. BUT., we are human and need to explore so recently I've been buying (or finding free) plugins here and there. Just got it (again)...loved it, still love it. Really EASY way to dial in a great vocal !! The ONLY thing that's a bummer is that the GUI size ca't be adjusted...but that's just life. I think as time goes on, all new plugins will come with that feature.
There are like 20 different plugins inside. There's no way it will not feel cluttered when all has to fit in such small space. Design, although unusual, is actually attempt to make prolonged usage more interesting, through variety of sliders and knobs and dials. Art and color scheme is actually very good, I would just change the looks of two "motorbike" top meters, as to me they don't fit the steampunk design.
Peter Savad well clearly he have already tested which settings will sound good before making the video. And the focus midband compressor thing could really use its own volume knob aswell so you can pull it down a bit to brevent the vocal to sound like a voice over. sure the pluging may be a neat thing to play around with but personally i'd go with seperate plugins for each feature i need so i have more control over the outcome.
Yep, this plugin seems a little gimmicky, not just the look of it. Waves is marketing to amateurs that think a big name and some presets will make their shitty recordings sound professional. Saying you'd rather use separate plugins to get your sound shows me you actually know what you're doing. Not a good look for Waves. They need to get more inventive with new plugs, not market to noobies.
Peter Savad Good thing there still are so many plugins that are just designed to do one thing and doing it well. And it's quite amazing how good some of the free plugins can be. I don't want to talk bad about waves since they have made some really good sounding plugins. But it gets a bit tiresome when so many plugins have to look like robotic space ship alien super future tech tools instead of a clean simple UI. A thing that many don't seem to think about is that the visual design choice of the user interface of plugins and daw´s will influence how you percieve the sound and outcome of your mix when its not just a clean basic minimalistic UI. Because the less you see, the more you hear.
FreeDooMusic Things that i like to do when i set up a reverb is to find a picture of a location to match the sound of the reverb i'm trying to achieve, and also close my eyes and listen while playing around with the knobs so i see with my ears instead. the outcome is normally an IR reverb blended with an algotithmic reverb to get a more complete sound. Most of the time i tend to get lazy though and just go with something that will be good enough.
all that can be done with what you already have... Ohh VST you have come so far... Why they gave you away for free as open source...? WHY.....! ??? :'( Everyone say "THANK YOU STEINBERG"
fushapanther The technology was given away as open source. Steinberg gets no royalties. VST goes back to 1997 to the public. Also their 32bit float audio engine has no parallel.
Yes, but you'll spend half of the morning figuring out how it maps. Don't map the individual Waves plugins, just map "Waveshells" from the X86/waves folder. Also, use the 64bit VST version, NOT the VST3 version. The VST3 made my Reaper crash every time.
here I go again bashing: Mmmh! a couple of Qclone impulses+over the top eye candy GUI= this stuff. $49.99 just for the UI great artwork.. But this makes no audio sense to us... Reminds me of the Maserati collection which only the Maserati GRP plug-in is worth using. CLA drums, bass, etc ... nonsense I just want to go to WAVES . COM and pick only what I want without installing a million plugins I will never use... Love the mouse pad..
you again put inside those old waves algorithms with some gold presets? cover it up in new design and try to sell us the same shit hundred time. Learn Ni, Fabfilters etc. how to make some new and innovation
Her voice is.... well... I like it. Its like... Buttah... Sure wish he would quit messing with it... :/ The plugin... honestly.. I can do the same with a 2 dollar EQ and 1973 compresssor. And seriously i think people think WAY to much about audio... cleaner the better.
Vocal plugins, cool Steam punk, cool Vocal plugins in a steam punk design, NOT cool. IMO, this interface makes this plugin cumbersome, distracting, and confusing. I believe clients would look at this as a shareware gimmick rather than a professional tool.
this plug in is so amazing.. run it in parallel holy shit. outstanding. thanks butch thanks waves
Probably one of my fav and most used plugs, still. Thanks Butch
The interface looks dope!!
Wow I feel like I'm the only one who us digging the steam punk gui. I think it's great and very well laid out. So many people bashing because it's just a bunch of individual plugs rolled into one with less control but thats what a vocal plug is. I like having something else to reach for in case my standard individual ssl go to plugs just ain't doing it for me. Why not. It's not trying to be a replacement for your whole toolkit just another tool. I feel like theres alot of armchair professionals on here bashing it just to bash it. I hate humanity when I read youtube comments sometimes.
I love the gui, it's dope
Literally every other comment "The steampunk vibe is dope!". This Aaron guy "Its only me" lmfao
@@hankhill5409 IKR, just goes to show you how much the comments change over time. It went from the majority of people hating on it, to most people loving it. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one. 😌
I love that waves gets the actual designers of a plugin to introduce it to the world. Doesn't seem to be a big need for this, but I will check it out. Let's find a way to use it for hip hop vocals
Did you find it worked well on hip hop vocals??
@@em-jw8291 can't remember but I can say that I don't use it in my mixes. But everything is subjective try it out for yourself. It might work for you
@@infinagon yeah was recommended by a teacher may still try it will be my first plug in. Thanks for the reply.
Nawh this nice my homie just put me on if you on some melodic vibey light autotune it mix pretty suave. I'm still learning but definitely a game changer!
Whether you buy this plug-in or not just by listening to Mr Vig here you gain so much invaluable knowledge and understanding. Great video, thank you.
Just loaded the plugin and already I'm loving it,this will help me speed up my vocal edit/mixing by alot.Been wanting this for a while and dig that steam punk look too.🗽📼
This plugin has been a gamechanger for me. Thank you, Butch.
Just bought it. I'm pretty stoked with it so far. Worth the dime.
YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Steampuke will help my tracks SOUND soooooooooo much better!!!
Love his 2nd grade schematic 'notes' haha
This demo is a gem. He gives away so much quality information, and when I look at what we get for the money all dialed in with Vig's signature specs the plugin seems like a good value. And why not have fun with the design? The steampunk look is pretty great. What I'd like to know is if I can get away with using this plug-in in 10.6. I've done that with several other Waves plug-ins. This one looks to require 10.8.5... so I'm not sure if I should get it.
this is very awesome characteristic plugin for vocals! love it
Hi Butch Vig! I really wanted Eddie Kramer drums for my free plugin but it wasn’t part of the buy 2 get 1 deal. So I got BVV instead. And it rocks. Love the steampunk interface and I love how it adds character to vocals and guitars and other stuff even more. Great addition to my collection 🤟🏼🤙🏽🌻
its wonderful plugin. its even sound great when i use this for master track or for drum group. the tube and solid state features also unbelievable. cant belive this plugin was 8 years ago.
I just downloaded the demo. I don't think I personally would make this my go-to vocal plugin (just personal taste) but this is an AMAZING drum plugin. The chicken beak EQs... the compression... the tube or solid state options, really all of the controls can help the drums cut through with much more life and color. A very nice surprise to stumble across a vocal plugin that's secretly a GREAT drum plugin.
You gave away my secret :D haha... Im with ya..
butch is the man
Amazing sounding plugin. Period!
I like it, lots to tweak!
Old ribbon saturation is sounding nice and lofi 🗽📼
Killer plugin, thanks Butch! :)
Thanks master :) you rock ..
There really needs to be a volume / mix knob for the distortion output so we can balance the main vocals and the distortion vocals.
you have to use this in parallel. its amazing
Something to keep in mind for the non-professionals...the tracks were recorded INCREDIBLY well to begin with. The plugin is great and I love the interface. Its beyond the scope of WAVES but I would love a tutorial on how the tracks were recorded. Adding EQ and compression, etc, with the plugin or without is great, but as they say, you can't polish a turd.
This is a good plugin, I used it on one of my lead vocals.
Overall it seems like a great go-to pluggin for upping the excitement on an average vocal. All the tools you'd typically use huddled together in one unit minus the spatial. I'm a fan of the UI. Very spaced out and detailed while also being "mood-setting". I'm sure it reminds the clients that you "are" doing something fantastic there on the computer thing..
sounds cool and looks cool!
Awesome piece, Vig !!! 'Smart' !
It looks like that robot from the movie Wall-E . The meters are the eyes if you look at it that way.
I think its dope
Butch Vig did such a great job,. he's responsible for mixing at LEAST 1.. fairly popular song....
Everyone should JUMP on this!
I love this plugin for the Tube distortion but the rub is that it's a CPU hog. Is there a low-CPU alternative to this plugin? A tube saturation plugin that sounds similar?
Nice shit man
Great Job Butch.... Congratulations I like the design and the plug sounds great... Say hello to Doug. where's Ernie ?
Hard to take it serious with this interface. Song is insanely good tho!
Garbage - Blood for Poppies
What "song"?? Lol
Nice layout
I used to work at a studio that had ALL of the Waves plugins (and a ton of others). When I started my own place I bought the Fab Filter bundle which gives me pretty much everything I need.
BUT., we are human and need to explore so recently I've been buying (or finding free) plugins here and there.
Just got it (again)...loved it, still love it. Really EASY way to dial in a great vocal !!
The ONLY thing that's a bummer is that the GUI size ca't be adjusted...but that's just life. I think as time goes on, all new plugins will come with that feature.
Мега мощь !!!
Nice toy! Thanks.
Why not solo the voice? It would demonstrate the effects much clearer.
Forgive me but I would avoid this merely on the cluttered interface. Can you over a skin or toggle button to provide a clean interface?
There are like 20 different plugins inside. There's no way it will not feel cluttered when all has to fit in such small space. Design, although unusual, is actually attempt to make prolonged usage more interesting, through variety of sliders and knobs and dials. Art and color scheme is actually very good, I would just change the looks of two "motorbike" top meters, as to me they don't fit the steampunk design.
Cool
Whats the diff between mono and stereo?
I bougjt it, it sounds great but its a power hog! Make it use less cpu please!
The plugin works great and it sounds great. But I absolutely hate looking at it. I just like everything in a straight line.
ASSOMEEE!
why you messin with knobs with no audio passing through it?
Totally, it's silly. He even set the compression threshold LOL.
Peter Savad well clearly he have already tested which settings will sound good before making the video.
And the focus midband compressor thing could really use its own volume knob aswell so you can pull it down a bit to brevent the vocal to sound like a voice over. sure the pluging may be a neat thing to play around with but personally i'd go with seperate plugins for each feature i need so i have more control over the outcome.
Yep, this plugin seems a little gimmicky, not just the look of it. Waves is marketing to amateurs that think a big name and some presets will make their shitty recordings sound professional. Saying you'd rather use separate plugins to get your sound shows me you actually know what you're doing. Not a good look for Waves. They need to get more inventive with new plugs, not market to noobies.
Peter Savad Good thing there still are so many plugins that are just designed to do one thing and doing it well.
And it's quite amazing how good some of the free plugins can be. I don't want to talk bad about waves since they have made some really good sounding plugins. But it gets a bit tiresome when so many plugins have to look like robotic space ship alien super future tech tools instead of a clean simple UI. A thing that many don't seem to think about is that the visual design choice of the user interface of plugins and daw´s will influence how you percieve the sound and outcome of your mix when its not just a clean basic minimalistic UI. Because the less you see, the more you hear.
FreeDooMusic Things that i like to do when i set up a reverb is to find a picture of a location to match the sound of the reverb i'm trying to achieve, and also close my eyes and listen while playing around with the knobs so i see with my ears instead. the outcome is normally an IR reverb blended with an algotithmic reverb to get a more complete sound. Most of the time i tend to get lazy though and just go with something that will be good enough.
This guy's enthusiasm is contagious!
he tweaks the plugin before hearing one second of sound... I mean this IS a promo tho.. smh
Song?
Garth, is that you?!
What out board gear you ran this through? I know it's not this plugin!
Totally that plugin... I get sick results with it,,
Find Waldo interface plugin
WoW
wow
He is using HEAT interesting.
Name of the song please!!!!!
Benjamin Müller sandstorm
What song is this?
What are the white monitors he is using called?
Barefoot Sound Mm27 Gen 1
all that can be done with what you already have...
Ohh VST you have come so far... Why they gave you away for free as open source...?
WHY.....! ??? :'( Everyone say "THANK YOU STEINBERG"
fushapanther The technology was given away as open source. Steinberg gets no royalties. VST goes back to 1997 to the public. Also their 32bit float audio engine has no parallel.
fushapanther no buddy.. the technology is called VST. Its free to use to make VST plug-ins.. invented by Steinberg
fushapanther Now there are other formats as well but all started with VST.
VST= Virtual Studio Technology.
can you use this plugin with reaper thanks
Yes, but you'll spend half of the morning figuring out how it maps. Don't map the individual Waves plugins, just map "Waveshells" from the X86/waves folder. Also, use the 64bit VST version, NOT the VST3 version. The VST3 made my Reaper crash every time.
*use daw default ui*, much better.
which song is that?
Blood For Poppies
here I go again bashing:
Mmmh! a couple of Qclone impulses+over the top eye candy GUI= this stuff.
$49.99 just for the UI great artwork.. But this makes no audio sense to us...
Reminds me of the Maserati collection which only the Maserati GRP plug-in is worth using. CLA drums, bass, etc ... nonsense
I just want to go to WAVES . COM and pick only what I want without installing a million plugins I will never use...
Love the mouse pad..
prefer voxengo voxformer, doesn't look like you're playing a video game too ;)
you again put inside those old waves algorithms with some gold presets? cover it up in new design and try to sell us the same shit hundred time. Learn Ni, Fabfilters etc. how to make some new and innovation
Сергей Поляков Focusrite *cough*
Сергей Поляков AGREE 200%
GUI OVER KILL.. REMINDS ME OF THE CGI MOVIE "ROBOTS"
Her voice is.... well... I like it. Its like... Buttah...
Sure wish he would quit messing with it... :/
The plugin... honestly.. I can do the same with a 2 dollar EQ and 1973 compresssor.
And seriously i think people think WAY to much about audio... cleaner the better.
She was dead sexy in the 90's ... redhead... :D
@@Turd_Polish who is she
@@madpriest7822 The singer from garbage 😍
UI and features look and sound like a toy.
Vocal plugins, cool
Steam punk, cool
Vocal plugins in a steam punk design, NOT cool.
IMO, this interface makes this plugin cumbersome, distracting, and confusing.
I believe clients would look at this as a shareware gimmick rather than a professional tool.
who the hell is this guy ^ lol.. the vst works great, has it's own look. Big deal.....
Yes, can you please make it as bland as possible. Sitting alone staring at my DAW screen for hours in my studio is too exciting already as it is.
Such a limited and sad perspective.. life is too short.. have fun.. be creative.. let it INSPIRE your music.
well... I couldnt hear any difference. Sorry Butch..
Bad domo . . sorry demo . . can't hear the difference
are we talking "Emperoys new clothes" . .
Don't like the look. Don't like the sound.
boring demonstration