#427

The denoise tools available in Standard saved a performance of mine from Arbhar noise that I couldn’t get rid of any other way. Anecdotal, but true!

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#428

I have Elements, but Declick is really all I use from it. I use that one a lot though!

Once in a while I have glitches that Declick can’t fix that require some manual repair work, but I’m often amazed at what it will fix.

#429

I really like the SketchCassette plugin. Use it mainly to add random vibrato and dropouts when playing guitar through Logic. It’s sweet (and cheap).

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#430

I started off with standard only to upgrade to advanced and now I can’t imagine having anything but advanced. It’s essential to film and television work. Makes podcast editing a breeze. Of course this can all apply to music as well. Different components all have varying learning curves and some you end up using more than others. But I’m glad I have all of them.

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#431

I have more delays than needed for a lifetime but just got this


and enjoying it a great deal. Nice fuzzy feel
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#432

well, I did it, I bought my first plugins. Izotope holiday bundle. I think someone here rec’ed that so thanks! I just need some dang utilities.

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#433

Was hoping for a deep fab filter discount, but it looks like they’re doing 25%.

Let me ask- do you all use ProQ/L/C in a creative capacity (as in, while writing/composing), or more when mixing/mastering?

I rarely do my own mixing is why I ask.

#434

I use ProQ always in mixing/mastering but haven’t creatively

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#435

Those are definitely not the first plugins I turn to for creative effects; however I use Saturn a LOT and their other creative effects are quite good as well.

#436

I do use proq3 pretty much every time I record for something. I’ve used it creatively a handful of times. The eq match feature for compensating for some weird transformer behavior when doing fuzzed out dc offset stuff when I wanted a dry wet blend. Also for control of harsh frequencies on some feedback patches using the dynamic eq with some notches. Also will use it to tweak frequencies of raw di’d guitars and bass going into reamping. It’s just such a clean and precise eq…and also pretty lightweight on computer resources so it can be used creatively without too much incurred latency in a pinch (tho I do always prefer to do 0 latency non-daw monitoring for live playing when I can get away with it).

#437

If your not mixing/mastering I honestly wouldn’t get them.

I mean you could find a creative way to use them, but you could really do that with any EQ/Limiter/ Compressor then if you want to. No need to get expensive plugins to do it with.

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#438

@mattlowery I have been using Q2 and now Q3 for years. At first I thought it was just for mixing and mastering, but I watched film sound mixer Ron Bartlett use them extremely creatively by grabbing and performing with the EQ nodes on the graphic display to perform big EQ sweeps and small surgical moves, while recording automation, and I’ve been using it ever since in that way, to shape and resale sounds in a gestural, performative way. Since Q3 is so great for mixing and mastering AND creative uses, I mostly use other EQs now only if I need to color the sound in a particular way.

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#439

It seems like Q is a no-brainer for $130. I’m not sold on my need for the others. Thanks everyone for your thoughts.

(Smash cut to me completing the bundle one year from now)

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#440

Wow, that Sketchcassette is great. Just bought both their plugins and lots of great sounds here. Thanks for the heads up.

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#441

It’s taken me years and I still only have almost 1/2 of the bundle. :slight_smile:

#442

I keep seeing people hype the FabFilter Pro-Q 3, but I never really got why you’d use it over e.g. Logic’s stock EQ?

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#443

Pro Q3 is so helpful. You can use it to monitor all other tracks that have an instance of it and it will high light in red where your getting masking between things. All the fab filter stuff is great. The visual feedback isn’t as gimmicky as it may seem because it can teach your ears so much. That’s just my favorite feature but it has a lot of other things that make it worth it over a DAW’s stock EQ, like match eq etc. Dan Worrall has two videos where he compares Q3 to the stock EQ in Ableton and Reaper which might be helpful to you.

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#444

For those interested in such things, Oeksound have a sale on Soothe2 right now and they rarely do sales.

It’s advertised as a deharsher / or clarity maker depending on your use case, and it can be very helpful with complicated audio sources where a de-esser or a dynamic EQ can’t quite manage to do the job.

It’s hyper-specific and pretty expensive for what it is but as often I found out those kind of plugins are the ones I end up using the most.

Also 10/10 for the clarity of the interface and visual feedback.

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#445

I decided to buy it after watching some of the demonstrations and I’m very glad I did. Feels a lot more natural to use over the stock logic EQ that I’m used to. For me it sometimes felt like I was fighting the stock eq in order to get it to do what I wanted.

So far after only having it for a day, I’ve really liked using the tilt eq to even out the spectrum on vocals. Another cool feature is that you can set different eq’s on L and R out to create a more interesting stereo image.

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#446

@jasonw22 any comment on the granular implementation of Equator2?