Valhalla vintage reverb vs ams rmx code#
Valhalla vintage reverb vs ams rmx series#

“Turn clockwise.” Boy, engineering is HARD. On second thought, do your ears a favor and just look at the waveform. Go listen to the latest SoundCloud rap sensation. But again, like the tawdry online porn metaphor above? People still give in to their desires when they think they can get away with it.

Of course, it’s been twenty-five years since then and we’ve collectively agreed to back away from such pancaked mixes. While the analog purists sneered on, arms crossed in defiance, DAW-types like me were stinking drunk with new-found power, slamming mixes with such giddy abandon the CD-R would melt. The Waves’ One Knob was, for all intents and purposes, not unlike the original L1 Limiter TDM plug-in for ProTools. Good thing, too, because when you turn this thing on… …THINGS GET LOUD. And yes, input and output level controls are also provided. Towards the right, the interface shows what I should assume is gain reduction across each band. What you do see on first blush are three cut/boost EQ bands, an “amount” control ranging from 0-200%, and a basic limiter “amount”.

Valhalla vintage reverb vs ams rmx code#

That’s not a mistake – the folks at Cradle are intentionally cagey about the inner workings and unlike analog gear, I couldn’t crack open the source code and tell you what’s under the hood.

The modernist, kaleidoscopic UI is light on explanation and controls. But I’m willing to set all of this aside for a few hours and try… try… to give this my honest, unvarnished assessment. As you can probably guess, there’s Team DIY and Team DIFM (Do It For Me) and, as tribalism seems to be all the rage these days, differing points of view quickly descend into assailing one another’s looks, families, and abilities as an audio engineer. In the month since it’s dropped, the online chatter has been quite active. And I admit, I am both in the minority and need to keep an open mind. Not just with EQ or compression – I’ll try different op-amps and VCA’s in my analog equipment, chasing every last bit and volt. I love to tinker, tweeze, and retool every aspect of every signal. I am a mix engineer with an emphasis on the term “engineer”.

Though Cradle’s “ The God Particle” ($79.99USD, AAX, AU, VST3), based on the mix bus processing of studio ubermensch, Jaycen Joshua, may not be ‘my kind of tool’, I’m approaching this from the mindset of today’s project and bedroom studio producer. And like all that “horny stepsister” action lurking in the web’s dark corners, clearly there’s enough demand for its proliferation to continue. These black boxes aren’t the sort of thing I usually reach for in a final mix – but again, that’s me. I’ll casually admit that I’m not immune to the siren song of an easy solution to common problems, particularly getting a rough mix polished up for easy digestion or ‘hearing it finished’. You’ll never hear an engineer cop to using one-click mastering plugins – and your Uncle has only heard of PornHub in passing ( don’t forget to scrub your browser history, Uncle Dave!). Though you’ll never meet anyone who’s an outspoken enthusiast, the fact is it’s clearly popular.

Valhalla vintage reverb vs ams rmx series#

I liken plug-ins like the Waves’ “One Knob” series or any similar “ black box“-type processors to online adult content. Does TGP deserve a spot in your plug-in folder? B Church puts aside his bias towards celebrity engineer plugins and black box solutions to give you his take. Though a little light on control, Cradle’s The God Particle is big on sound.