Originally Posted by audiomichael  Hey guys,
I had some free time, and did a test. I grabbed a friend of mines track. It's a modern punk-ish track, recorded guerilla style in a closet, with pretty cheap mics and a Digi003 (It's a real drum kit, amped guitars, DI bass, and vocal). It's NOT a good recording, so I thought it would be a good real world test for people who might actually do preset mixing. I don't think that Rob Cavallo is going to be using these extensively, but hey... ya never know. Some of the plugs are REALLY good IMO.
For this, I took the raw track into Logic, and did a rough blend with volume and panning (no eq, compression, fx) That's the "No Plugs" version. For the others I put the corresponding preset plugin with the 1st appropriate preset (if there were 2 presets, I would A/B and choose the better). I didn't tweak the plugin at all except for input gain, which is part of the usage instructions from Waves (I DID reduce some reverb on the vocal... that's it). I made a point of not spending more than 5 minutes setting up and tweaking levels. It was all thrown together very fast. I did it with the new CLA Sig, Kramer Sig, Maserati Sig, and the SSL CLA presets. The master has about 1db of URS Channel Strip Pro's Tom Lord-Alge Red preset, and an L2 rarely doing anything.
-update- I added the SSL plugin with CLA presets followed by CLA compressors 1176, LA2A, and LA3A appropriately. It's really hard not to tweak some of the extreme EQ settings, but I wanted to stay true to the preset test. Because I bypassed the dynamics on the SSL, I lost some gates too, which makes the drums more woooly. |