DIGITAL MAGIC you'll all want

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DIGITAL MAGIC you'll all want

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Just when auto tracking, auto mixing and auto mastering were becoming the things you love most about DAW recording the ante is upped by this essential plug in...
MAGIC KNOB
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Kill me please
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Software for people who don't know how to track.

Too much drum bleed...lousy grooves...too much reverb...
...just reach of a plugin to fix it....and you just turn one knob, so no brain power needed.

They need a 3rd plug category...

1. Effects
2. Processing
and
3. Fixing
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I don't know. I sing in an apartment that I'm completely unwilling to turn into a studio and have gobos everywhere, and I'm aware that, despite my best efforts, there is always a reflection in my vocal tracks - it's a big room, but not that big. If buying a plug-in would get rid of it, I might take them up on it. I'm just not convinced it would. And there's probably a Reaper plug I haven't found yet that already does it... :biggrin:

I did have a look at their site and found their Happy Placer VST - which is quite an amusing concept, so good on them for not being too serious...
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Check out the SPL Deverb plug then...it's more respectable with two knobs. :D

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... _plus.html
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Edit:- note to self,never wake up and go straight on a forum ... and if you do, READ the whole bloody thread first :D

Armistice wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2017 10:59 pm there is always a reflection in my vocal tracks - it's a big room, but not that big. If buying a plug-in would get rid of it, I might take them up on it. I'm just not convinced it would.

Deverb might be worth a shot ... or something similar :)

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... _plus.html

mate tried it on some bad live drums,did what it said on the tin but wasn't "awe inspiring" ... they have a "14-day fully functional trial: " if you wanna jump through their hoops .. like a trained circus dog :D ... Woof!
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I actually went and watched a 12 minute video of the plug in this thread's about, out of interest. And I watched/listened to the narrator turning a crappily recorded acoustic guitar track with excess noise and room into a crappily recorded acoustic guitar track with less noise, room and high end detail.

I came away with the impression that it's a tool of last resort - if you have no other options - ie. track the fucking thing better, being the first, most-obvious option.
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miroslav wrote: Sun Apr 09, 2017 1:25 am Check out the SPL Deverb plug then...it's more respectable with two knobs. :D

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... _plus.html
I've come this far on the journey without paying a cent for processing VSTs.... not sure I'll start here. :biggrin: Athough next time I track vocals I might try the 14 day trial and see how it works out.
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Mr. Smith, I don't think you technically qualify for the one I linked too. If I recall you are "in a relationship" and therefore no longer a "Single Knob".
I've tried all sports of filters and sequences to remove reverb in the distant past (poor pun) . I discovered that any sound that closely a part of something else can only be reduced rather than removed and, even then, at great expense to the important material.
I've not paid for a VST as yet - though I did pay for a VST "Wrapper" when using Cakewalk Pro Audio - I paid $70 to be able to use free stuff!
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