Just like to introduce you a plug-in that I have discovered recently. It's from Nomad Factory, it's an analogue flavored channel strip called Studio Channel SC-226. Compressor, EQ, limiter, phase switch and a tube saturation in one package.
It sounds very nice and musical. Compressor is very useful in taming the level fluctuation without killing the natural dynamic of the musicians (there are RMS and peak mode), and overall shaping of the sound with those EQs. The limiter could be handy if you are dealing with some unknown audio materials (sound design project etc) to protect your monitors (or your ears!), though, I'm not sure where the threshold is. It could be just below 0.0dBfs.
Phase switch can be very handy as I often use Trim plug-in just to do flipping the phase of the multi-mic-ed instruments.
You can change the order between: Comp-EQ, or EQ-Comp, it's always good to have choices.
And one of the best thing in this plug-in is the tube saturator. I'm trying not to use all the time but I tend to reach that section! I like to use it on acoustic guitars if it's sounding too bright. There are many other occasions this will become handy.
Although I'm really liking this plug-in, there are few things you'll need to get used to. The HPF seems it starts way above those frequencies (20, 30, 40, 60 and 80) so most often I use another plug-in for this.
Also the compressor distorts quite easily with low frequency instruments (kick, bass etc) so again, I would use another plug-in for those things.
Overall, it's a great addition to my plug-in list and I will be using this one here and there for sure!
Thanks for looking!
YS Sound Production
It sounds very nice and musical. Compressor is very useful in taming the level fluctuation without killing the natural dynamic of the musicians (there are RMS and peak mode), and overall shaping of the sound with those EQs. The limiter could be handy if you are dealing with some unknown audio materials (sound design project etc) to protect your monitors (or your ears!), though, I'm not sure where the threshold is. It could be just below 0.0dBfs.
Phase switch can be very handy as I often use Trim plug-in just to do flipping the phase of the multi-mic-ed instruments.
You can change the order between: Comp-EQ, or EQ-Comp, it's always good to have choices.
And one of the best thing in this plug-in is the tube saturator. I'm trying not to use all the time but I tend to reach that section! I like to use it on acoustic guitars if it's sounding too bright. There are many other occasions this will become handy.
Although I'm really liking this plug-in, there are few things you'll need to get used to. The HPF seems it starts way above those frequencies (20, 30, 40, 60 and 80) so most often I use another plug-in for this.
Also the compressor distorts quite easily with low frequency instruments (kick, bass etc) so again, I would use another plug-in for those things.
Overall, it's a great addition to my plug-in list and I will be using this one here and there for sure!
Thanks for looking!
YS Sound Production
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