mixing-plugins//-hardware & crispy sound

[NoAffiliation]

hardware - radial JDI direct box (jensen transformers) into an analog preamp, dangerous d-box summing mixer, analog compressors

software - anything UAD, Satson, Saturn, or just a synthesizer to layer white noise into a sample

AND GATE EXPANSION

[oblioblioblio]

Don't bollox about wih exciters, DI boxes (you don't need them for synths) or any shite like that

Get it right from the start. Your synth should sound like a storm or fluttering symponic beauty. If it doesn't learn to play it better or get a better synth.

Expensive compressors, or exciters will make it sound better, but for me, I'm a musician. I don't have any effects or polishing hardware. Everything I do is done on the synths.

[steevio]

i use raw analogue synthesis

no processing / exciters, for me thats totally unecessary.

if i could afford it, it might buy me some Thermionic shizz

[NoAffiliation]

Don't bollox about wih exciters, DI boxes (you don't need them for synths) or any shite like that

Get it right from the start. Your synth should sound like a storm or fluttering symponic beauty. If it doesn't learn to play it better or get a better synth.

Expensive compressors, or exciters will make it sound better, but for me, I'm a musician. I don't have any effects or polishing hardware. Everything I do is done on the synths.

i consider myself a musician as well and i agree about getting it right from the start. but the question is what is right, for me right is when what i hear coming out of the speakers is exactly what i want.

i don't use the DI on synths, I use it on drum machines. running something like a korg electribe though a radial JDI into a mic preamp gives the sound a crisp edge like it's actually jumping out of the speakers at you, it doesn't change the sound so much as the pressure.

[tone-def]

with digital recording it's a lot better to have a nice analogue front end to record through. personally it's the last thing i'd worry about.

[oblioblioblio]

@no affiliation.

if something works it works I guess. A DI box drops a signal down to mic level and a mic amp turns it back into line level.

I wasn't trying to say that i'm a musician and other people aren't. I was just trying to say where my attention is. Every decision I make is a creative one, and I don't have any effects. I just plug my synth into my soundcard or speakers.

But I guess I'm coming across like my way is the only way. I'm just saying what works for me.

[NoAffiliation]

@no affiliation.

if something works it works I guess. A DI box drops a signal down to mic level and a mic amp turns it back into line level.

I wasn't trying to say that i'm a musician and other people aren't. I was just trying to say where my attention is. Every decision I make is a creative one, and I don't have any effects. I just plug my synth into my soundcard or speakers.

But I guess I'm coming across like my way is the only way. I'm just saying what works for me.

the Radial does a bit more than that which is why it's so expensive. Not just level but it lowers the impedance of the signal so you get a better transfer of energy during recording. Also, the JDI has jensen transformers which really color the sound in a pleasing way. i'm just saying stuff like this IS creative as well

[Dal-Tech]

I created this track using a two Focusrite Trackmaster Pros which gets bad reviews and overdriving everything on a Beheringer mixer.