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Last year about this time I released a progressive rock album under the name THEO. Here is track 3 from the record. I am immensely proud of this album. If you've not heard it yet, you really should pick up a copy.
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Between this and Presswerk from u-he, I don't see why you'd need any other plug-in compressor.
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RIP Maurice White. Whenever I hear EW&F, this is all I want to do.
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Bed time for me but I just want to end the day by saying how proud I am of my daughter Zora. She's an amazing kid.
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If you're really nostalgic for the sound of vinyl, just play all your digital media through this: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/effects-instruments/vinyl
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One more time for those who haven't seen it. My favorite comment so far: "Loved this! It's so fresh yet one can tell immediately what song it is!"
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No I get it. But I can't reference any concrete examples because frankly I don't listen to a lot of modern music. But the 'holy grail' in modern digital recordings (at least in non-classical genres) is to make things sound 'warm' and 'analog'. There are literally thousands of plug-ins that claim to do so (with varying degrees of success) as well as hundreds of hardware units (mic preamps, compressors, limiters, etc.) that are marketed as 'warming up' the 'cold digital sound'. I guess in terms of recent recordings, I would point to Steven Wilson's "The Raven That Refused To Sing" as a brilliantly engineered album (not to mention the cool music itself) that sounds to me like something from the pinnacle of analog recording (late 70s). It was engineered by Alan Parsons and recorded to HD ProTools but the signal chain up until the computer was all analog; analog EQs, mic preamps, compressors, etc. To my ears it sounds incredibly warm but with far more fidelity, frequency range, and dynamics than vinyl could ever muster. Basically the best of both worlds.
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I have no idea but I've used those kind of plug-ins a lot myself. And the list of engineers that use the Sonnox Inflator plug-in is a mile long. They might not use it on the whole mix, but often it is used on individual instruments, especially vocals.
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Nice! Hard to find with that title, though.
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For once the click-bait title is actually heading a story that's far worse. Yes, SNAP beneficiaries would be banned from buying shellfish of any kind, certain types of potatoes (red for instance), and ketchup. But also canned peas and green beans, albacore tuna, red salmon, and fish fillets, bagels, pita bread, English muffins, white rice and wild rice, taco shells, almond, rice, goat, and soy milk, brown eggs and any eggs produced by cage-free or free range chickens, several kinds of infant food, anything in bulk and anything organic or natural.
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Wow! Some amazing stuff popping up on YT lately. Here's Shirley Scott live in Spain in 1976 with a composition of Harold Vick's from her One For Me album (my favorite).
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Taxman - Beatles cover
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in organissimo - The Band Discussion
I just thought it would be interesting to do it that way. "If you play in 8, he'll take a beat." Thanks! -
They do it all the time. That's why there's a huge market of esoteric analog mic preamps, compressors, 'vintage warmer' plugins, etc. It's also why a lot of studios / artists / engineers still record to tape and then transfer that into the digital realm for editing and mixing.
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So if I actively push the belief in the geocentric model of the solar system, can I get a certain famous astrophysicist to respond personally to me as well and wage a Twitter war? Because it seems like that would be some serious publicity.
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They do. There are all kinds of harmonic distortion plug-ins and tools available to the modern engineer if he/she or the producer wants that sound. One of the best is the Sonnox Oxford Inflator plug-in. This is a lot like the old Aural Exciter hardware units of yesteryear but much more flexible. I know that Peter Gabriel's engineer for example uses it on his vocals. It's also handy on drums and even on the mix bus (the entire mix) to add a bit of sparkle / energy to the track. Of course like anything else it can be overused.