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Originally Posted by talontsiawd  Interesting thread. I have been thinking about trying this out too but the second you bring up a mic or preamp emulator, people freak out and tell you it doesn't sound the same.
Just for the sake of hoping more people will volunteer information, rather than oppinion, I want to bring up one thing. Just because you are using something in software that immulates a hardware unit, that doesn't mean you expect it to perform like the hardware unit. For me, and maybe other people, I am more interested in using it as an effect, even if it sounds NOTHING like the real deal, in the hopes that it is something useable and makes something sound better. |
This is true, however as an engineer there's things that you never quite get used to, no matter what it is or what its supposed to be like or sort of like lol.
Sometimes I feel like people would rather buy their way out of a problem but budgeting makes them buy shit that normally they wouldn't.
Like how many people would avoid a nice working 8 track reel to reel if it was $99? If it makes your recordings sound dope as hell, you'd use it all over the place I'm certain.
Now make that same deck $800 or $2000.
So now dude is using a "tape simulator," and learning to accept the sound of it but wishing for that extra 25 to 45% difference he heard when his shit hit tape (which he's not getting from the plugin).
I mean I guess he's "accepting," it.
Like one would accept wankin' vs hittin' off Sanaa Lathan.
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