Might take a while - the last time I used the UAD was last month in Portland mixing a friends project. Please send me then also a UAD treated version. If you send me a WAV/AIF I can run it through different setting so you can compare. Hey Marco, can you compare the Waves plugin with the tape plugins from UAD? I've enjoyed the UAD when I've had the chance to use them (when working on other folk's systems) and wonder how they stack up against the Waves.ĭon't own the UAD. For subtle stuff it can create a very deep and open stereo image thanks to the 2+3 mode. The J37 is best tape sim I have ever heard. The Normal setting for Wow is rather extreme. Some of the Tape saturation can be nasty while it doesn't offer much range. Everything about the J37 is better: saturation, wow & flutter and stereo image. It's not bad but it's seriously lacking compared to the J37. Yes, every CHANGE can be heard, but the person listening to a mix cannot hear these changes since they don't get to hear the before/after, right? Make sense? So let me be cleared that I NEVER add stuff I can't hear! No "auto pilot" was implied with anything I've said. It's not flying blind because you CAN hear the effect if you solo the track. You are talking about something entirely different than what I just described. So yes, not to be heard by the listener, the saying makes much more sense this way for me! This is the glue that gets spoken about imo.
Some people say a master compressor glues the mix, but simply it makes the mix a more consistent in volume by reducing the dynamic range and tightening the average volume. Every change can be heard by a trained ear, using sweeping and extreme settings to emphasise the effect. So this saying basically surprised me because some people mix this way, "not hearing" the changes and really I guess they also heard the saying somewhere and misinterpreted it.
Haha thank you for the clarification, quite frankly if you are mixing something and making decisions to add stuff you can't hear you're essentially putting your mix on autopilot and when you run into problems later on, figuring out what it is will be a nightmare. Sent from some crappy device using Tapatalk This is far from being "THE" way to produce music - if this style of production doesn't work for you, don't use it! In the case of my "saturation" comment, what I mean is sometimes you want it to sound "saturated", sometimes you just want it to sound bigger and better - saturation can accomplish BOTH results in my experience! As for the saturation effect specifically, just because you can't hear the it clearly stand out in the mix doesn't mean it's effect is not FELT in the final mix by the listeners. Sometimes you DO want the listener to hear things, like a heavily distorted guitar, or a dark/distorted vocal.īut it's the subtle layers that create the final effect. This is what everyone I ever worked with says, btw. To be clear - I'm talking about the listener when I say this, not the person doing the mix. Sometimes I use both approaches in the same song - whatever works! In other situations you want the reverb to be obvious and stand on it's own rather than blend with the rest of the tracks. I say the same thing about reverb in most cases - in some cases if you actually hear the reverb, it's too prominent. This could include compressing a vocal to level it, EQing an instrument to remove noise etc, and adding subtle saturation on a thin sound to make it 'thicker'. I've never understood this saying, that is all!Ĭan you hear all the EQ applied to every mix? That's what I'm talking about here…not everything you do as an engineer is intended to be "heard", much work is "corrective" in nature and intended NOT to be heard. Imagine saying something like this back in the day, before DAWs, when you had to listen to make your decisions. What ?! I have come across people who say this too often! If you can't hear the effect then why are you using it ? People say the same about compression, I mean if it has to be that subtle its probably not needed. If you hear saturation, it's probably too much in most cases. But this "every track" is overkill to the max. A lot of sound sculpting iirc, and the fx are nice.īut, I'm over most saturation. Aeox wrote:people will buy this just because it looks Yeah, it was great.
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