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Old 23rd December 2009   #1
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Decapitator vs Pheonix
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totally different animals in the little time I have used Decap.
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I think guys are confusing this new distortion plug for a tape saturation plugin ?
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Ok, how about Decapitator vs Reviver?
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with the Ampex model, no "punish", 1-2 drive and back off on the mix, and it does wonderful saturation effects.

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totally different animals in the little time I have used Decap.
Agreed.
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I think guys are confusing this new distortion plug for a tape saturation plugin ?
Agreed here. While the core tech behind decapitator is capable of a LOT, we really restrained ourselves to keep the focus on this plug in the high-end preamp and culture-vulture-y saturation range, from somewhat mild to very heavy.

Phoenix is very cool for it's low order harmonic coloring, and we could easily do that kind of thing, but if we were to do something like that, it would be a different plug-in, and probably wouldn't need as much DSP horsepower either.

And REAL tape saturation is something else.
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Phoenix is very cool for it's low order harmonic coloring, and we could easily do that kind of thing, but if we were to do something like that, it would be a different plug-in, and probably wouldn't need as much DSP horsepower either.
YES. If you've got any free time this week, please go ahead and just knock that plugin out. I'd be happy to buy it.
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YES. If you've got any free time this week, please go ahead and just knock that plugin out. I'd be happy to buy it.

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YES. If you've got any free time this week, please go ahead and just knock that plugin out. I'd be happy to buy it.
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absolutely. something like phoenix, but one that i can use with logic.. please
have to admit, you guys rule. after a couple of days messing with decapitator and i found i can use it everywhere. from mild to hardcore, from channels to the master buss.
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YES. If you've got any free time this week, please go ahead and just knock that plugin out. I'd be happy to buy it.
lol. same though

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I think a better question would be: Decapitator vs. Culture Vulture.
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YES. If you've got any free time this week, please go ahead and just knock that plugin out. I'd be happy to buy it.

LOL. +1 on the Tape.
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I think a better question would be: Decapitator vs. Culture Vulture.
I'd be curious to hear what people think about that...
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Ok, how about Decapitator vs Reviver?
I like Rviver a lot but Decapitator is far more versatile with more flavours...

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I think a better question would be: Decapitator vs. Culture Vulture.
quite complimentary to be compared to Culture Vulture....would be interesting to hear some comparisons. Of course I'd much rather have a real analogue process-but perhaps the difference is not as large as one might imagine...
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I'd be curious to hear what people think about that...
I can't do a direct A/B but I have tried it on synths and vocals and it does the Culture Vulture thing good enough for my purposes. On extreme settings it somewhat emulates the chaotic behavior of a tube input stage being overloaded. Pretty cool. But I agree with the others on the gain staging. I wish it was easier to level match so I can hear what it's doing at more subtle settings.
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I wish it was easier to level match so I can hear what it's doing at more subtle settings.
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I wonder - how difficult it would be for soundtoys to implement this?
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I too agree on the level matching problems, especially with this kind of fx where huge level changes occur. The D16 distortion fx also have this problem.
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YES. If you've got any free time this week, please go ahead and just knock that plugin out. I'd be happy to buy it.
no idea why this thread is in the new product alert but yes please do this soundtoys!!!

also decapitator is great, definite buy once its released!
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YES. If you've got any free time this week, please go ahead and just knock that plugin out. I'd be happy to buy it.
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ps. please please add an some sort of master output control to decapitator!!!!

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