UAD - LA2A Leveler Plugin Collection explained (Full Walkthrough) 

Believe me, you'd have a lot more trouble with Dutch! There isn't a different sound for the two in Dutch. It's kind of in between. "V" "F" and "W" are all pretty much the same, kind of like "V" and "B" in Spanish. Until the age of twelve, the muscles in the mouth, face, tongue and jaw all develop to efficiently form the sounds of the language being spoken. I'm a native English speaker, but I spoke Spanish when I was three. I totally forgot it, but when I learned and started using it again in my 20s, my accent was perfect because I'd developed the musculature to make the sounds at an early age. If you learn a language later in life, it takes the equivalent of speech therapy exercises to pronounce new sounds accurately and in rapid combination. Native English speakers generally sound pretty horrible speaking other languages, but most people (other than some of the French) are generally very forgiving. My friends used to have a joke: What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.

Hank Azaria!!!! I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!!

not fully true but yeah u have a point. regardless they all do have different tones

This is true to an extent. However, the saturation that it adds also creates a phenomenon where it sounds louder while peak levels are actually lower because it's literally thickening the sound by adding in harmonics. For instance, you can put just a saturation plugin, an 1176 or LA2A on a snare without any compression or gain adjustment and the peak levels will drop by 3dB but it will sound louder. Klanghelm has the absolute best automatic gain compensation algorithms I've ever encountered. They seem to take all of this into consideration and account for psychoacoustics when making the adjustment, so it really sounds exactly the same as far as volume goes. BTW, I can't recommend the Klanghelm plugins enough. You can get them all for less than the price of one UAD or FabFilter plugin, and they are on par with UAD, if not better in some ways. One man shop. The guy is amazing. Plugins are like 23 euros each, and are easily worth 10x that. Those and Airwindows, which are all donationware, are some real hidden gems. Since he mentioned a de-esser, and we all have to use them when applying compression to vocals or cymbals, Airwindows DeEss is the most ingenious de-esser ever made. It isn't just a highly focused multi-band compressor like most. It recognizes the wave pattern of sibilance and smooths it out. I'd always wondered why no one else did that. Some claim to, but in practice, they harm a lot of the other stuff in that frequency. For raw voice over, I max it out, then mix back in just enough of the dry signal to make it sound natural. In REAPER, this is a feature of every plugin-no need for an FX buss. For stuff that's gonna get reverb and more EQ and compression, I'll set the DeEss up on it's own buss and only apply the plugins to the 100% DeEssed signal and mix in just enough of the dry signal to make it sound natural. It has replaced FabFilter Pro-DS as my "go to" de-esser, and I've tried them all. Waves came out with it's "organic" Sibilance plugin shortly after Chris from Airwindows released his. He's generous with his code, and I'm pretty sure that's what's under the hood of Sibilance.

@@xaosnox Chris is the nicest person in the world for giving away for free one of the best deesers ever (and lots of other VSTs)

i'm still thinking