Give an analog flavor to cold and digital loops coming from my DAW.

[cwar05]

Hi everyone,

As the title suggests, I'd like to give my cold and digital loops coming from my DAW a kind of analog flavour
and none of the plugins I tried gave me that.

As I can't afford high end preamps and compressors or boxes like The Culture Vulture which seems terrific, I'm looking
for a filter.
I'm a big fan of Daft Punk's sound (before "Human After All", Which I consider as crap) and I know that they made everything
go through hardware samplers and the Mutronics Mutator filter.

I'd like to buy the Mutator but this box is a kind of luxury for me at the moment (I've just purchased a Sherman Filterbank)

So I just want to know what would be the device that could 'mimic" the Mutator's sound the best and that would be
cheaper at the same time.

I don't care if the box isn't MIDI and if it doesn't feature any modulation capabilities, I just want A SOOUUNNDD!

At first, I've thought of buying the moogerfooger MURF but I'm kind of disappointed about moogerfooger stomp boxes because
I've got the Moogerfooger MF 103 phaser and, although it's heaven with instrument's level, this thing doesn't seem to like
line levels (I've experienced a serious lack of punch when using the MF103 with sounds coming out my DAW. Impossible for me
to increase the drive knob as well, which was always near ZERO)

.... so I won't go for the MURF unless I did something wrong, hopefully you'll tell me if I did!

I don't want those screamin' sound boxes like JOMOX resonator as I already own a Sherman.
I don't want distortion boxes
I just want to give a nice dress to my sound


I was thinking to the frostwave resonator which is a copy of Korg MS 20 filter. What do you think of this one?

Also, I could maybe be interested in those filters which are parts of modular systems but actually, there are so many
(doepfer, Cwejman etc...) that I really don't know which one could fit my needs.
Anyway, which filter, part of a modular system would be the best?
Finally, I was thinking to a relatively new one on the market : The Allen and Heath VF-1 : I don't know what is its value?
Anyone has heard it well enough to give me an advice?


Maybe I forgot some great pieces of gear : all your suggestions are welcome!



Charly



P.S : Sorry for the mistakes if I did some! ;)