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Adding warmth
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:52 am
by freq juggler
Hey all,
Wich software / hardware do you use to give some warmth to your tracks?
I use PSP vintage warmer alot, distortion plugins in cubase 5 and i like the warmth of the Nomad factory blue bundle compressors and brickwall.
Some others to but i forgot
Sometimes i even record the seperate drumhits to tape and re-record them with that nasty analog distortion and tape hiss hahaha (sometimes though).
What do you do?
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:06 am
by lowpass
yeah I normally associate "warmth" with analog/tape compression/saturation/distortion
Used to use camelcrusher on "subtle master" mode, resample that a few times gives it a "warmer" feel to it.
then theres the "tape saturation?" mode on scream in reason that seemed to work.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:29 am
by vivace
Izotope Ozone 3. Use it to add warmth, life AND death to a track.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:31 pm
by 86.
Vintage Warmer is good. At first I thought it sounded like garbage.
I like Izotope Vinyl and JB Ferox. on the master bus
I use a lot of distortion on individual tracks as well.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:03 pm
by Littlefoot
Vivace wrote:life AND death to a track.
yes! this can be said of any "warmth processors"
I've always liked Vintage Warmer 2.
PSP make great plugs, but I'd feel ripped off as most buttons become useless over about 3 on the dial..
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:16 pm
by two oh one
There is a cut down free one, too:
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:17 pm
by macc
Aye, Colourtone is quite good
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:23 pm
by hurlingdervish
some dude on the ableton forums posted a massive effect rack that emulates a sp-1200
sounds verry nice, but not for constant use
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:54 pm
by Sharmaji
colortone! haven't seen that in a while. i use phasetone a bunch.
airwindows makes 'channel' which is nice, as well.
'warmth' is often just an increase in low mids and a bit of a cut in the upper registers, with dynamic control.
w/that said, vwarmer's killer for this stuff. as it just overdriving things in general.
not everything needs to be 'warm.'
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:55 pm
by contakt321
hurlingdervish wrote:some dude on the ableton forums posted a massive effect rack that emulates a sp-1200
sounds verry nice, but not for constant use
Link please? Very curious as to how it sits against a real SP.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:04 pm
by hurlingdervish
contakt321 wrote:hurlingdervish wrote:some dude on the ableton forums posted a massive effect rack that emulates a sp-1200
sounds verry nice, but not for constant use
Link please? Very curious as to how it sits against a real SP.
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php? ... +1200+rack\
im sure it cant touch the original but its a nice soft redux/aliasing effect
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:04 pm
by two oh one
TeReKeTe wrote:not everything needs to be 'warm.'
Yes! If everything is warm, nothing is warm!
Contrast, innit?
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:23 pm
by contakt321
hurlingdervish wrote:contakt321 wrote:hurlingdervish wrote:some dude on the ableton forums posted a massive effect rack that emulates a sp-1200
sounds verry nice, but not for constant use
Link please? Very curious as to how it sits against a real SP.
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php? ... +1200+rack\
im sure it cant touch the original but its a nice soft redux/aliasing effect
Thank you sir! Can't believe I missed this. If I have time this weekend I will try to do a comparison of the same sound through this rack and in the actual SP1200.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:26 pm
by test_recordings
De-esser works really well on a mix, takes the hiss and sibilance off digital wave-forms and is easily implementable
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:37 pm
by feasible_weasel
some sub-base
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:20 pm
by sook
sonnox dynamics warmth section...
cant be beat... sonnox plugs are
on point...