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Originally Posted by lakeshorephatty  Hey all,
Today i had some more time to play with this. So what i did was take a track as close to finished as i could get it without the new ubk fatso, then apply what i thought the box could help with, I have two files, one before and one after.
Before, the track had been recorded, then every channel had been sent through my original fatso on settings I liked, no compression used because i didn't find the fatso's original compression very useful to me, except on bass, where i used i believe the buss compressor.
So the track should glue pretty well with every track through the fatso right?
I couldnt' believe what happened after i used the UBK. I actually compressed "everything" I basically found a setting i liked and tweaked it until it sounded good, then if that grouping of sounds had a lot of dynamics in it, i may have changed the setting and recorded again at the new setting carefully blending the sections. I'd never tried that but it worked well to preserve a good amount of dynamics. I didn't want quite all the dynamics i had but i wanted some. All the compression was "buss style" in that it was applied to groups, not individual tracks, except when i put "squish" (splat + spank) on the kick and snare grouped and pulverized it to give the kick some sustain and the snare ghost notes some presence. I blended this new track in parallel with the original drums.
On piano, the guitar, and the vibrato wurli I used 'smooth' and it really did a neat tapey thing i've never heard the fatso do before.
On drums i used "splat" on the bus
On bass I believe i used glue. It sounded great.
I used the trafo when it seemed right but typically i leave that off.
I had to adjust some of the reverb levels (which are all demeter RV-1) once the compression was in place.
All in all, this turned out a silly amount better in my mind.
Thanks Greg for the mod. this is really fantastic!
Russell |
I just had a listen to the two files. I listened to the "after" first. My first impression was that the pianist wasn't very good, and the piece did not do anything for me, although there were some good sounds. Then I listened to the "before". The pianist was a lot better. The entire ensemble was much more together, with a much better feel. In short, the "after" may sound better technically, but the music was ruined in the process.