I’m so glad to see the Softube Germanium get some love. It’s one of my secret weapons for things like drum fills or Toms where I want some extra beef on incidental parts. It’s weird to get your head around the controls and handling but that’s part of the fun :)
The song you referred to regarding the SSL talkback compressor is the first track "Intruder" from Peter Gabriel's third studio album, and where Phil Collins plays the drums.
I believe it was also by accident... While monitoring in the control room, they used the talkback mic to talk , and the effect was heard in the headphones in the studio ... Thus, a sound was born. What a happy accident!
I was surprised to see 2 of my favorites included: Chandler Germanium & Eventide Omnipressor. The Germanium plugin did the opposite for me than it did for you. I loved it so much I figured the hardware would only be better, so I bought a pair of the hardware compressors. I used Omnipressor on my drum crush buss for a while but eventually moved on to something else only because of the amount of noise it introduces. It's so noisy but otherwise, sounds awesome. I really wish Eventide would introduce an On/Off switch for the noise on this one. With that, it would easily be one of my favorite plugin compressors.
RS124 from waves is incredible! I use it as a parallel vocal compressor. I'm a bit biased, cause I love Abbey Road studios and the Beatles. You can click the expand button, and mix the wet/dry, as well as set filters!
Yeh another insightful video David.Regarding the SSL story the engineer who created the Happy accident was Hugh Padgham when Phil Collins was recording drums for Peter Gabriels album
I'd forgotten I had the RS124. Thanks for the reminder. :) At the very least it'll make a great distorted thickener for some of the loudest parts of my mixes. Hope I find a couple of sweet spots like the MJUC has on certain voices.
Happy new year! I’m wondering if you could make a video about your favorite synth plugins. I’m curious about your point of view and experiences on them. Like “somehow this plugins sit very well with other instruments as an ambient.” Or like “many people I work with using this analogue emulation and I couldn’t tell it wasn’t from hard gear”. Something like that.
8:43 I thought that I am the only one who have this issue lol I think it is like a plugin anxiety or something...but to be honest any (good) eq/compressor will do whatever you want if you have a certain vision....At least for my perspective!
Okay, thank you for getting back to me so quick. Have much love for your channel by the way been an active member for well over a year now, so much education for a home recording novice like me. But just to clarify, do you automate the threshold instead, or use multiple compressors to cope with these peaks? I realise the vocal was in solo with the example and so compression was obvious that might be very subtle in the final mix with the rest of the tracks in context, I am assuming that as the dynamic range is wide you want to control this in (given the style of the song ) in a more natural sounding way? I wish I had the opportunity to watch over your shoulder as is the old school way of learning the art of mixing. Home studios are great and they give so much more access to people like me to than ever before...but second guessing every move... It's like being in a dark maze without a torch trying to find a way out 😭😂
PM proved to be an absolutely horrible, unprofessional, unethical and borderline scam-ish company. If I was to expose them, nobody will ever buy anything they make and maybe soon I will. No it's not missing, probably they copied someone else.
@@mixbustv Oh...not sure what happened since the last review, which was great. I thought they made amazing sounding plugins, maybe it's the support that lacks?
Because I've been the misfortune to be involved with them on a bigger project and they proved to be the most greedy and unreliable bunch of people I've ever met in the industry. Big head thay can't back up with facts and they ultimately wasted a lot of people's time and money and destroyed a project that could have been amazing. Like I said, probably some day I will talk about it, with my buddy Glenn and they're gonne be done in the industry
@@mixbustv omg.. i really hope this comes out, if they have copied someone's work and are charging those prices.. it needs to be aired. But as always, protect yourself first !
@@mixbustv True, but often there are situations where having gain compensation allows you to listen to what the compressor is doing with less bias and make a more precise decision. An 1176 for instance, has input and output knobs, which is great for the hardware, but in the box you usually only have control of one knob at a time.
You really need to stop using vocal material to demonstrate compressors. Because you cannot use aggressive settings for vocals and because RU-vid jacks up audio, we cannot hear exactly what each compressor is doing. You should ALWAYS use drums for demonstrations, even if meant for other material. With drums, combined with you changing settings from mild to aggressive, we will hear what the compressor is doing. How long is it going to take for you guys, who are constantly asking for support and likes to learn this simple rule??!!
