Let's Plug: Overloud Dopamine [Deep-dive] 

I think Mutt Lange used Dolby Noise reduction for this purpose, mainly on those stacks of background vocals on Def Leppard records, to "excite" the vocals. The trick caught in with a lot of engineers, but most people didn't get the same result as Mutt Lange! lol I assume the silver face version is emulating Dolby A noise reduction unit. And I assume the black face one is emulating a dbx unit? I'm gonna do some digging to look into it later on.

361 is a Dolby A encode emulation and the 180 is the Dolby B from the unbalanced Teac system. There's also a very obvious level difference of a at least dB between the two. Comp possibly emulates an encode/decode misalignment? (which was easy to get wrong). They ought to add the Telcom C4 as another "angel dust" option, as that (originally by Telefunken) didn't require level calibration.

Was not sold at first but this sounds really good, subtle but great. So clever to use it in combination with something like Soothe to bring some life back. Find they sometimes can turn sounds a bit stale. Getting this for sure

I have been quite enjoying the stressor option at times on vocals, I find it somewhat similar to the LA2A

Unreal, love the reverb you have on the vocal. What is it? Have you tried the EQ84? It would be great if you had a video on it!

You should have A/B with and without Dopemine at the same peak level, see if that level difference is what is making you think it was sounding better.

Thank you very much for your lessons, videos,and very useful information for me.Thank you very much!

Adds a nice sheen - the raw input has a super harsh resonance in the highs - which this plug in is doubling down on. But if i just listen to the plug in - its definitely shiny

I wonder if this is similar to the encoder/decoder section on the Satin tape plugin. I think there’s 5 different encoder types on there.

Could i have the name of the song and artist?

whats the track?

Somewhat close to the Maag EQ4 on the highs.

wow. it's like a HF saturation

.....Here to find out what the Comp knob is doing.

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Adds a nice shine to the vocal. But a bit pricey.