Favorite plug ins, worth buying 🙂

[Deru]

I’ve been lucky enough to have some time with the new @trickyflemming plug and it is indeed a really special one.

[trickyflemming]

@landt

would this be in-line with grm tools space grain plugin?

I couldn’t say how much it compares, as neither of us have used it. I have the GRM Tools except for the Space package.

[landt]

yeah, no worries. will stay tuned, looks very cool so far

[varispeeder]

I’m looking for recommendations for old-timey-izers (I use “old-timey” as a verb now). this is to take voice actors and put them in spaces evoking the first half of the century - it’s for the upcoming season two of this podcast.

I’ve been using Altiverb, Speakerphone, Soundtoys, iZotope Vinyl, and XLN RC-20. I’m currently looking at picking up some of Audio Thing’s plugins in this genre (especially Wires and Speakers). anything other suggestions?

[discreet-cowboy]

@varispeeder

I’m looking for recommendations for old-timey-izers

The Audio Thing plug-ins first came to mind (Wires, Speakers, Reels). iZotope Vinyl never totally does what I want it to do but I do use it from time to time. Also good room reverb will help a lot with space.

Do you have RX? Not sure if this is backwards thinking, but, when scrubbing audio and de-noising there is the option to monitor only the output of the noise. If you process while monitoring this, it will create an audio track of just the noise you’re trying to remove. So you could always try this on an old sound source and then mix it in with your dialogue (in addition to the plug-ins). Just a thought.

[varispeeder]

@discreet-cowboy

Do you have RX? Not sure if this is backwards thinking, but, when scrubbing audio and de-noising there is the option to monitor only the output of the noise. If you process while monitoring this, it will create an audio track of just the noise you’re trying to remove. So you could always try this on an old sound source and then mix it in with your dialogue (in addition to the plug-ins). Just a thought.

you are going to laugh but I’ve already tried this - there’s too many residual artefacts for this to work the way you would hope though. far easier to find some stretches that are just noise and loop that underneath also Speakerphone comes with a nice variety of noises.

[OhWell]

Might chowdsp tape come in handy?

[zoundsabar]

There’s also McDSP’s Futz Box which is like Speakerphone in many ways. I would think that Wire might be a bit OTT. WavesFactory Cassette is another nice old old-timey-izer.

I just watched Mank which is fascinating for its overt use of obsolete artifacts of film sound. I heard that it’s in mono and that they limited the frequency range to that of the soundtrack of Citizen Kane. Apparently they played the film back in a room like an old movie palace (the Scoring Stage at Skywalker Sound) and rerecorded it to add a theatrical effect to the whole track. I was much less aware of this at the beginning, than at the end of the film. Not sure if that was because it was growing in intensity gradually, or if I just became more aware of it over time. There are many edits where the sound drops out between sentences or other joins, as if the film was made without any fill track that keeps the spaces from being silent. What they didn’t do as far as I can tell, is add surface noise, like optical track hiss or crackle and pops from scratches. There is a nice sheen of distortion on everything.