10:47 "so we can do this" *memories of Big Boo's Haunt music from Mario 64* Also, I'm SO excited about the beginning part (ConsoleX, StoneFireComp...), makes me happy about being alive :DD. When I am able to donate to you, I will. If I had to pay $50 for every plugin I use on every mix, song, demo or whatever, I'd have to pay you around $500. I love Logical4, Tape (the minimalistic one withouth the flutter), Console7, Mojo, Density2, Pressure (5 & 4) and most of your reverbs, the "Coat" series, the "kPlate" series, the last two "kCathedral" series, Galactic... PitchDelay, TapeDelay2, AutoPan, GlitchShifter, your choruses... I don't say I love them all just because I don't know them all, but I do my mixes with just stock plugins and your plugins, the vast majority of the time. Not only have I learned things with your videos but I've also learned to hear better, to mix better, even to be a nicer person(?). By the way, I also forgot to mention ADClip8, ClipOnly2, Desk, TransDesk, TubeDesk, Recurve and curve (I like the concept and the sound)... Oh boy there's a lot haha. I guess what I want to say is thank you, thank you for your generosity, for your kindness, for sharing your knowledge, for your plugins, for your music, I am waiting for your album, I'm in the process of recording mine, and if ConsoleX comes out in the mixing process, I will most likely use that as well. Take care, sending you love and good wishes!
This is a great tool! I would like simple labels in each band though. like rms etc. It would also be great to learn other production techniques and their effect in Meter. What do too many red dots in lane 2 mean? If a deep house track mix hits DA, is that good?
Does anybody know what to do with the components in the downloadable folder (SignedMacAUs.dmg)? Are they extra? Am I good with just installing the Airwindows Consolidated Plugin? Cheers :)
In a way, this plugin emulates (by tweaking) what a badly calibrated “Dubly” B or C unit sounds like. Professionally, only A or SR was used, though. The only useful tweak I used to do, would be to mess with the level from tape - never into tape. Could this model be tweaked to emulate the four bands of type A, or the more complex “moving bands” of type SR? Could we then calibrate the chain using reference tones and VU levels? That would really be emulating what once was - messing around didn’t create much opportunity, but understanding before tweaking often did. I can’t see that has changed much…? Another thought is that when tape & NR were all we had, we did stuff to make it sound _musically good_ - not “bad” because we could. Just like we want good converters, low s/n ratios, stable clocking or floating point mixing now… “Bad audio” isn’t retro, just a causality from available tech at a point in time. Trying hard, but sometimes failing for tech reasons, is quite timeless…😅 (I really love every effort and the “grand plan” forwards - just me ranting, as an old engineer sometimes will… 🙈👍)
*hits blunt once* so what Chris is saying is that boomers used to have something similar to ott on the master and during recording... Isn't this literally one of the crucial parts of the "tape compression"? I knew that u-he were onto something...
Absolutely. Turns out this has been around since the late SIXTIES. On the multitrack masters. It sort of became part of the tape machines, but it was the 'gray boxes' of the noise reduction system. Dolby :)
There is no added noise. You might be setting either or both of the 'amount' too high: they use a uLaw algo for compression and they are set so you can add WAY too much. For effect purposes :)
@@airwindows Oh! Exciting! Thank you for your awesome work. I thought you were crazy all these years 🤔 ...but now when I've tried your plugins - Wow. Greetings from Sweden!
the fu thing is that I actually like ToTape5 more than 6... Im SO exited to hear what 7 brings to the table :-) I mean totape5 has beaten all my other (paid) tape emulations!
Tried this on a mix and it adds this weird hypey sizzle? sparkle? not sure what the right word is. Makes it roar right out of the speakers at about 15% wet...amazing plugin. Thank you so much!
My main and maybe only gripe with ToTape6 is the long, all-encompassing frequency sweep that is really noticeable if you go for, like, upward compression afterwards. Would love ToTape7 to not have that, or even one better, have a version of ToTape6 that doesn't have that sweep no matter the settings. I figured out what exactly do I have to not use there to get rid of the sweep, but the sound just feels to be not the same. Not as good. Good luck with the new iteration!
So excited about ToTape7! And it's great that you give us all building blocks. I actually have a comment on Flutter2 and it's about things you talk about in this video. Short version: it would be great to have a Channels Link amount parameter for Flutter2. Or after watching this video, maybe there's also should be a dedicated Azimuth parameter too. The thing is, I tried to interchange ToTape6 flutter to Flutter2. And while it's a very cool-sounding effect, it makes the stereo image too independent. This can potentially be problematic, especialy when using it on mono sources. For example, a guitar recorded on one channel will always be stereo-fied if flutter is used. Same for bass, vocal... I think this is important, especially considering that stereo channels on tape are not that much independent in terms of artifacts, as I understand it.
you could always use a plugin to mute one side and pan the other to the middle, assuming it was mono prior to the effect, that should do what you'd want. I wouldn't mind a M/S switch, tho, seems like a good idea.
@@MantasticHams If ToTape7 will contain Flutter2 as it is now, that's probably what I would do. Chris has two plugins for such tasks - Leftomono and Rightomono. But my concern is more about general flutter stereo behavior. I tried replacing ToTape6 flutter with Flutter2 and it didn't work out for me - ToTape6 flutter is less independent, more centered, so it keeps image better.
My 'Timeless' posts are both demonstrations of how to read Airwindows Meter… and showing people the music I love, in all aspects. By now I'm good enough to be able to make that translate even to RU-vid: I can show you the sounds I literally grew up with, as they 'really sounded like', and it'll translate through RU-vid and even a phone :) after all, it used to translate through FM and a transistor radio, a phone's more or less as good as that <3
I don't think I've ever been as excited about a plugin coming out as I am about a new ToTape. Happy to be a patron, you've been releasing so much exciting stuff!
I feel like with all I've been discovering, I'm going to start using it in all my mixing alongside ConsoleX. It's just shaping up to bring things I cannot get to any other way. I want to not rely on it but I might end up just going full on 'fake tape, deal with it, gotta have it' even though I'd like to take a more 'modern' approach :)
Windows Defender & Edge browser are blocking download of Airwindows Consolidated today (27.07.2024) because 'not often downloaded' - just for your information, Chris.
Nothing I can do about that because it must be a new version each week <3 if that produces problems with Edge or whatever, I hope there's a workaround. Consolidated needs to continually have the very newest of plugins. It'll have Dubly2 tomorrow :)
Great track! Some technical questions if you would be kind enough of course and have some time - on the top chart the blue peaks are always plotted as blue squares right? They may be of different size though, what does this represent? Black dots are always small dots though, correct? And more conceptually - do I get it right that a peak will end up as a "good" blue mark only if the peaks and brightness are in sync? Like it would be bad to have too many peaks in low-mid without peaks in highs within some reasonable time interval?
Bear in mind slew isn't 'low mid' or 'highs', purely the speed at which the waveform moves. So it's brightness combined with loudness, always: very quiet high frequencies aren't high slew. If the peak and the slew line up, the dots turn blue, that's what blue peaks means. On the top and second meters, larger means 'even more in sync'. On the bottom meter larger simply means louder, and it's a zero cross meter: shows maximum bass weighting, roughly.
@@airwindows And also seems like the correct first step would be to learn how to use Slewonly plugin of yours to figure out how slew can be used in mixing, then proceed to Meter.
follow up: used it on a mix I'm working on instead of just feeding it personal favs for the first time late last night and it was incredibly helpful for dialing in the level with which I hit the 2 bus.
Woooah just look at Bicep - Glue light the Meter up, incredible! Also very interesting to examine what the songs you like look like, not the hit ones. I tend to like the ones with a lot of red dots spread evenly. Cool stuff!
That means you like a brighter, 80s-modern sort of tone, but not grating, and you don't want it REAL bright or there would be lots of black spikes and grey spikes in there too. Lots of red dots evenly, means brightness and glitter but still an amount of balance. You can mix stuff to be like that too :)
