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Originally Posted by CDS  This is such a better way to explain what I also experienced than what I did in this thread. It gives you a solid and "polished" sound by default, there is no way to turn it off which is really great for one's creativity. Even with just etching out song ideas, it just sounds professional at all times. |
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. It sounds great right from the start. I seriously haven't been this inspired for a long time. Not that I can't get a great sound in Pro Tools, but Record just has it from the very first track. I can pump out a demo that is going to sound like a professional pre-mastered track. If you have a great front-end, Record will treat you right with its sound.
The effects really do sound amazing and everything is glued together so nicely. I wish I had more experience on a real SSL board, but who cares, there's going to be a ton of guys that just know Record and will make great sounding records on it.
What really blew me away, is when I took off my headphones and listened back to my vocals on my Adam A7 monitors. I couldn't believe how they just sounded like a professional recording without doing much to them. The guitars were so crisp and "glued" to the mix too. The best part is just scrolling up and down looking at the comps and eq's on the channel and tweaking the tracks on the fly. No need to open up a plugin.
I realize some people will want to use their 3rd party plugs, and this will be a deal breaker for them. For me, I don't care, give me the sound I have been seeking and I will use it.
I will say that I did load up a default song writing template, so some of the tracks had effects and certain styles of compression preloaded. I could care less about that though, because bottom line is I was getting a sound I was blown away by immediately.
I don't know exactly what is going on under the hood in Record, but I'm very impressed, and I would buy this program right now if it were available.
I guess I can at least keep on beta testing and having fun.
