Recreating Analog's Most Elusive "Secrets"
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
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I like this style of video - de-mystifying expensive gear by recreating the effect with the gear you already own. very Dan Worrall.
For the blind comparison at the end, I thought A was the original reverb, and B was the IR. To me, there was something RICHER about A, but ears are so unreliable that I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong. Great stuff 👍
That SPL de esser trick is pure gold! Tried it out and it works wonders
I like the idea about using convolution and impulse responses of the bricasti. It’s a fantastic sounding reverb.
Being able to figure out what emulations are actually doing is the big trick here.
This exactly why analog is so special. It’s just too many little details you need to emulate it’s almost impossible. And I’m stuck working in the box for 90% over 25 years so I wish it could recreate the magic. The tradeoffs are mainly ease of use and cheap, but the end result is lesser quality in aggregate.
There's online services that allow you to run your signal through actual hardware, like Access Analog. Not incredibly cheap but still cheaper than buying a bunch of units and maintaining them. Super worth it.
Very cool! Thanks for making these available to members.
If only it were that simple... Mixing life would be so much easier and cheaper.
why is it not?
@@JohnnysaidWhat These alternatives sound completely different from their plugin counterparts, and even more so when it comes to hardware. I would love to be able to just use a Pro Q trick to replicate Fusion's space and width circuits, but this is very hard to be done even by SSL themselves with their plugin version. The ideia that with a few EQ moves you'd be replicating hardware behavior is totally flawed. Just test for yourself, go to Access Analog and test these out against Pro Q3. I have a real Tube-Tech SMC SB and a Manley Vari Mu hardware right in front of me in my studio. Even very well regarded companies like Softube or UAD can't replicate these close enough in plugin form.
I think too that modern technology is a miracle and we should be thankful.. but that unadulterated crispy pro analogue sound of the 90s came from a 100k Neve console, excellent preamps and hi-end mics that cost more than an average yearly income. Still great that we can have good results with cheap gear though.
Always dropping gems!
why did you do the de-essing that way? instead of using an extra channel with inverted polarity you could've just dynamically eq'd that specific frequency band on the original channel. same result, less messy. you say this is different to regular frequency specific compression because it uses phase cancellation which makes it smoother but the way you have done it, it actually is exactly the same as regular dynamic eq'ing since you have total phase cancellation. you would need to alter the copied and polarity flipped signal in some other way for it to create a difference compared to regular dynamic eq'ing
I love your videos but this is a typical scientific view of sound: if it’s the same on paper, it’s the same in reality. Except it’s not. It’s obvious as hell with the MBP space and depth curves. It sounds nothing like the real deal 😅. The Maag is spot on and the research behind this video is impressive though, excellent work as usual. Thanks for your excellent content. But let’s not forget that emulation will always be like looking at a very good photograph of a classic painting. It looks the same to most but it definitely doesn’t express all the nuances and emotions of the original 😊
dang i was lowkey hoping to see most the fq, q , gain lvl for each band on the second one
Yeah, you can emulate digital with digital. But that‘s it.
What about the red and blue silk?
Up until recently, very tough to emulate. Now, Kiive Nfuse
Can you recreate RND Silk on Saturn² ?
So true!
Is this song audio you're using released?? Would love to listen to it
Analog gear produces a richer sound than using plug ins.
While these are good tips, I wouldn’t use these as replacements for actual analog gear.
This is stupid gear brain operating on sunken cost fallacy ^
Some gear is better than the plugin versions at hyper specific things. That doesnt mean it cant be replicated digitally. It just means the developer didnt do as good of a job as they could have. Some plugins are better than the hardware though.
Everything is measurable. Its all signal processing, whether thats analog or digital. All that matters is the skill of the person using the tools.
whats the point of adjusting 40KHz if people cant hear it! are u mixing for dogs?
Regardless if you can hear it or not, 40kHz affects the spectrum of the frequencies you CAN hear which is the whole point of the video. Call it "character" or "mud" or whatever you like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This doesn't mean that it is 40kHz processed only. It is some kind of a central point of the curve.
When you add bell on 100Hz, you say you don't process 98Hz or 115Hz? Depends on Q as well. You may add 1kHz bell and it will touch 300Hz and 5kHz. You may create 2kHz on Fabfilter with widest Q and it affects not only 2kHz, 1.99kHz or 2.001kHz, but affects through all the range from 0Hz to 22 kHz and even higher. So wtf? 40kHz doesn't mean it is only 40kHz
@@НикитаЧеркунов-п6я so you can do the same with any eq whihc goes upto 20KHz.. you really think you gonna notice a holy shit level differece between shelf curves on above 15k?
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