Pizza and Plug-ins
Posted on January 29, 2012 with 1 commentRestaurant pick for tonight: Pizzaria Del Campari - latin quarter, montreal. I had dinner tonight with Alvin and Jon-Paul here in Montreal! We talked about many recording things like
Software:
What's your favorite software synth? Jon-Paul was talking about the features of Absynth
On Plug-Ins
There are some plug-ins that are effective and others that do more harm than good. For mastering plug-ins are of often times of limited use - they either do too much or not enough in terms of punch, warmth or character. Plug-ins are good for touch-up - but when you talk about limiters - it seems like most just wind up making the music sound dead. They suck out dynamics.......
The biggest offender is some of the latest tape emulation plug-ins like Heat - it seems to me like a distortion knob and I would discourage it's use on the mixbus. Sometimes things can sound cool for 2 or 3 listens but if you came back the next day for a fresh listen, you might wonder what you were thinking. :-)
If you have thoughts on your favorite plug-ins,? let me know