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Dude you KNOW it. I had that song in mind the whole time lol

@@VileVamp Rewatching it, I was speaking a little too off-the-cuff when I said, "my special headphone pad stand." I should've mentioned it was one of the stands for my green backdrop and I was using one of the plastic clamps that came with it to keep the pads from falling. Any vertical pipe-style stand would do: backdrop / microphone stands; tripods; anything vertical. Get little plastic spring clamps at any hardware/dollar store or Amazon. Like these: a.co/d/cKgeowP. There are a million ways to do it. You'd just want to be sure the pad is resting evenly across its surface-not hanging by a single point-so it doesn't stretch while drying. Good luck! Let me know how it goes for your pads!

@@vektacular That's too bad. Curious how you were you using it in hip-hop: Vocal reverb? On the whole mix? Hip-hop certainly requires its own unique approach to effects. Its spectrum is often more distinctly banded (with SO much low-end energy) than, say, rock , and we often don't want to hear obvious reverb on the lead vocals. I should try Sound City on a hip-hop mix and see what results I get. Perhaps a follow-up the next time they announce a fire-sale on Sound City?🤔 Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@dahlhousestudios I tried it as reverb on piano and a pre delay on synth

That's great! Let me know how you use it. The song is called Struggle & Torn by Arkana, a little production I've been involved with for decades. Currently unavailable while we remaster the songs. I'll make a big announcement when the album's back up. Glad you like it!

@@bobbyweezer Thanks! As expected for a high-quality reverb and spectral processor, it was adding a solid few percent CPU usage in macOS Sonoma's Task Monitor per instance in Cubase 13 in native Silicon mode. 26ms latency at 192 buffer. (M1 Mac Studio 32gb RAM). But I was able to load and unload 20 instances at a time without the slightest lag. In an absolute monster project you might feel it though.

@@palebluedotstudios this one caught me off-guard. Just had to get a vid out quick!

@@fcmas Good points. They definitely aren't the same product. Each offers something the other doesn't. While my headline might be slightly hyperbolic, I do believe this poses an existential threat to Soothe, as you can achieve very similar results at 1/10th the price. But Oeksound are an incredible company and have owned this space for years so they'll be fine. Wouldn't be surprised to see Soothe 3 include a few of Equator's features though! Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@byus6928 You're a big meanie! Ha ha. Jk. It's rough vocals in a rough mix. Most people will understand.

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@@yoquiva9005 not sure how to respond to this wall of laugh emoji, but thanks for watching and commenting! 💯💯💯💯

Hey! It wasn't my idea to release 2 of them in one week lol! They're just appearing so rapidly now. To be fair, I'd only use that term if the plugin has the goods to back it up. Equator and SpecCraft certainly do. If they had existed 8 years ago, I wouldn't even have considered Soothe 2 at $300. Will be very curious to see if Soothe 3 answers the challenge! The trial for SpecCraft is really lenient-30 days; 1.5 secs of silence every 25 mins. Give it a try and see if it "kills" Soothe 2 for you?

Naw this might be just that and I been with soothe since day one

@@byus6928 Love that loyalty!

CARP's other products look interesting too. ...btw what is the 'Struggle and Toil' song you use? Sounds great.

I had the same thought, but couldn't think of a compressor that acts quite like it. The traditional model keeps GR as a percentage/ratio. Whereas in Krossbow, the actual ratio must be changing to reach that GR floor. I certainly can't get any comp/limiter I have to act quite like it. Check my previous demo of it, where I mathematically level a wildly dynamic vocal using it (and see why I asked Carp for a lookahead function too!) ruclips.net/video/3wEUjFHcZ20/видео.htmlsi=hfkq5hWmEGDXX6tT&t=328 What really drew me to Krossbow is that it makes dialling-in your attack / release settings so easy when it's set to exreme GR-then just bring up the Max GR needle till it sounds reasonable. Bam! Or leave it at extreme settings to become a transient designer. It feels like how I "see" ideal dynamic reduction happening. They've got a demo, so give it a try and see what you think. Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@bobbyweezer Agreed. I have eyes on their Octapus pitching plug-looks like their effort to make an Eventide H3000 competitor.

@@dahlhousestudios wow I see...sounds fascinating. Thanks for the explanation. I'll try to check it out 👍

@@bobbyweezer TL:DR I had a band with my bro in the 90s. He had a side-band with our buddy, Kevin-and I've always been the unofficial 3rd member/producer. This song is from that band, Arkana. The album is a mini-masterpeice IMHO, but ended up getting murdered in mastering, so we took it down a few years ago. We're remastering and rereleasing soon. I'll make sure to get you notified. The best way would be (until I get RUclips Membership active) to signup for my free Patreon tier and I'll definitely announce the album rerelease there!

@@seok84 Who knows? Waves's pricing certainly is a wild, nonsensical thing these days. Platinum was $1500 when I bought it in 2008. Nothing ever went on-sale. Now? $299 lol. That being said, if Soothe 2 is $300, then Equator is a steal at even $79. But wouldn't blame anyone for holding out. If you don't want to support massive corporates, Three-Body Technology has just released an almost identically brilliant plugin, SpecCraft, for only $69. Check my demo here: ruclips.net/video/ukwRJKFWtIw/видео.htmlsi=4rKYaLp2OZFJnhow&t=891

See? My viewers have such great ears! PBD's vid would've been about Waves Curves Equator, as was mine the day before ruclips.net/video/5FVMR8x1_Yg/видео.html. You can see when he joins this livestream that he's slightly annoyed that I scooped him on SpecCraft! 😅 Thanks a lot for watching and commenting

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Thanks for watching and commenting!

So glad I can help! Thanks so much.

@@eg1612 It's sad to see the result of greedy marketing decisions. You're obviously passionate about audio, and now Waves ha lost you-maybe forever. Sad! Yes, I got Smooth Operator the moment it came out. Extremely useful, and it does sidechained unmasking! but, it's in a lower league than Soothe. And this Equator is a sizzler.

I know what you mean. The Waves Update Plan can feel almost usurious sometimes. You'd enjoy my and my bro's vids on Waves replacement plugins! ruclips.net/video/L9cvFCq4ceY/видео.html But: 1) We might like it or not, but they make some of the best plugs out there. I'm still hopelessly addicted to a few. Equator is the latest addiction, I fear. 2) The the single-fee plugin licenses is permanent for as long as your rig can run the plugins. I'm running a blend of everything from v9 to v15 plugins, and have only had to buy WUP once-when macOS and Cubase starting rejecting VST2 and non-Silicon plugs.

They lost a lot of people with that WUP crap - then they tried screwing people over with their subscription idea that they promptly changed after a lot of negative feedback. Baby audio also make a cost effective alternative to Soothe.

@@eg1612 The subscription thing was so bonkers and out of touch. To their credit, they reversed it. (But only once caught lol)

@@dahlhousestudios yep

@@dahlhousestudios agree they make decent plugins (I actually loved Vitamin), but there is so much competition out there I can easily swap them for free plugins or support less greedy companies. Waves is dead to me.

So appreciate the sub! Pro audio world are a necessarily skeptical and conservative users of social media-hard to get them subs! That would be very cool to show overlaps. Pro Q3 has set the standard for visuals when EQ'ing for sure. Sonnox Claro does this in a very cool way. See review here: ruclips.net/video/FPUoiGNhtYg/видео.htmlsi=tIXB7bx5f2ECw8lT&t=137 In the case of Equator, since you're just making a reverse profile of the sidechain, it's not as necessary to show overlaps as much. I do like that, once dialled-in, it's left more to ear to fine-tune. I plan to do a de-resonator/unmasker shoot-out soon. Let me know if you'd like to see any specific plugs tested! Thanks for subbing and commenting!

@@josesarinsemanzi lol. Aren't we all struggling?! Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@josesarinsemanzi You've just unofficially renamed "Struggle & Torn" to "Struggling Tone!" I'll inform the songwriters.

Well said.

Thanks for the support as always, Drop!

@@phadrus Agreed 100. This is a brilliant learning/training tool. It's already made me way more sensitive to resonances, and, as you'll see in my upcoming Waves Curves Equator review, it makes me ultra-aware of the resonant frequency, and I can use that knowledge to fine-tune other broader-band deresonance/unmask tools, like Soothe. I now KNOW forever that the howler monkey frequency in these vocals is 1140Hz. Thanx for watching and commenting

@@dahlhousestudios cheers! I’ll look for the Waves video when it comes out.

Thanks! As I tried to make clear, his root message is fine and I agree-no EQ is going to make your mix for you, and the underlying tech in digital EQs is virtually identical. Ironically, for someone who loves playing with new plugs and software, I have found myself using only a select few over and over in my templates-but always keeping an ear out for incredibly cool and unique ones (especially timesavers). That being said, his tactics left much to be desired and I felt clarification was necessary. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hi Great news! Honoured that you watched and elated that you listened! Would love to do a review of the new version, showing the change in transient response. Can always reach me at info@dahlhousestudios.com

BTW: The full review of Krossbow was in this episode at this timestamp ruclips.net/video/3wEUjFHcZ20/видео.htmlsi=81Aj_Wr5f2u9K18W&t=328

Well-said! I think these debates make for smarter engineers. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Well said, jThunder! Repeatability is something I wish I'd leaned into a little harder in the vid, 'cos it's one of the main benefits of modelled EQs like a;; those Pultecs.

@@dahlhousestudiosI agree. You should go try it. Insert the MEQ5 on a snare drum set the low knob to 200, the mid Knob to 500 and the high knob to 2k. Start turning the gain knobs. Turn them till it sounds cool.

@@jthunderbass1 Sounds like great settings! For me, it's 60Hz for the cut/boost on bass. You're preaching you the choir. It was my attachment to the various EQPx plugs that set me off to make this video, cos I'll be damned if I'm gonna take an hour to try to recreate Pultec behavior in a digital EQ, when Cubase comes with an excellent EQP emulation! Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out on my next snare.

TYVM for using my link! We all win with this plugin. Wow. Wonder if anyone can unseat it from Plugin of the Year Award 2024? 🤔

@@axel.lessio also, there's a lesson here (why I started covering deals): we should watch like a hawk for good deals on plugins that we are interested in. They'll all eventually go on-sale. And then we pounce!

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@@dahlhousestudios Same here.

@@mikeymumbelz9063 sounds like a great strat. I think if I had done some of your strategies, I might not have been left with residual gunk. But who knows. In the end, as long as we get brighter, nicer-smelling earpads, we win! Thanks for commenting and watching!

@@martinexoticsusa Agreed! It's my new baby. Though I got to say, I found the mixer a little odd at first. But that was solved by RTFM.

@@shayeasy It's a game changer. I'm obsessed with at least trying it on everything!

Nein! Follow the link in the description or scan the QR code. It's $39 at PiB. They've extended the sale until Sep 2! www.pluginboutique.com/products/11503-UAD-Sound-City-Studios-Plugin/?a_aid=64b80a03dc3d7

I've had the exact same thoughts! My biggest wish with the plug is that it would dip down to, say, 500Hz-just in case that reso is happening at, say, 970Hz! I too was often finding that I needed to add a couple instances on some tracks. This is no big deal, as long we're careful with the little bells-and-whistles buttons (the exciter, for instance, creates pretty serious aliasing-so you wouldn't want to have a bunch of that on a track). As long as you don't engage any of the saturation, you can load as many of these as you want (though feel free to mess around with the Compensate/Excite/Q buttons in the final instance of DeRes in your chain)! At its core, DeRes is a simple digital EQ, just with a whacky Q of 20, and some alleged exclusive methods to minimise artefacts. I was never able to fully null DeRes with other EQs though it was VERY close. You could also use DeRes to identify resonances, then cut all the resonances in any digital EQ that can make Q-factors that high (many can't). In any of these cases, we'd want to keep the ears open, listening for any odd phase issues etc. Cutting resonances is one of the age-old secret skills that the pros have always used. All that being said, at some point I recommend ignoring everything I said above! It's always the same rule: try to stick to good principles as you set up your mix, but once you've got a good balance, whatever sounds good, IS good! Thanks for commenting and watching!

Pretty sure you're correct. And we're all free to do so, if that's how we like working. I've never tried ZL EQ. Do you like it?

@@deeskushun Science is what gives us these amazing plugins! But yes, "trusting" it is just something people who don't want to listen to you say😅. Really appreciate the sub and comments!

@@dahlhousestudios im on ur side , if you use it and like it, that's empirical not trust, i learn to know, but i dont trust, anyone

@@deeskushun Well said, brother Deeskushun! Let's get it!

Thw word “science” means “testing and asking questions”. Why put faith in that?

@@jthunderbass1 Preach! Um, I mean, "Science!" Well said. 😅

@@EricJohnson-fh8zj Thanks! I stay on Instagram to watch hamster videos and stay connected with a couple loved-ones. While scrolling through it, I realised it seems like an entirely different dimension of pro audio. Lots of companies I've never heard of, doing big ad-buys. So I've become very curious: are they scams? Or Best-kept-secrets? Do you think I should make this info a series? 🤔 Thanks for the encouragement and for watching!

@dahlhousestudios heck yeah! That's a great idea...separating what's legit useful and what is just noise. Being critical is good sometimes. In fact, its a necessary skill to have if you're getting you're info online lol. There's a lot of people trying to capitalize on the ignorance of people with dreams and aspirations. I'm sure they all think they're really providing value tho

Agreed!

Ha ha! The irony is thick! Thanks for scrolling, liking, and responding to my social media!😇

@@dahlhousestudios oh no , it was just a recommended, i was referring to reacting to everything being scrolled to, but I see what you mean.

@@Todzuum Understood. I was just being silly. Totally got it!

It's a shockingly good plugin. Thanks for watching!

@@dahlhousestudios drop it on my mixbus crank the preamp and back off the output to compensate and boom my mix sounds like thunder drums pops out in my face bass gets big deep and wide vocals shine like star instruments become dense 3d and polished this now gives me clue to drop waves slate and ik and grab uad tuesday coupon deals with their native offering

Perfect-that's the plan! Which 3 plugs stole your heart? The song at 2:10 comes from one of Slate Digital's series of projects. I get pretty desperate for good multitracks that are not copyrighted. Even most of my best multitracks are copyrighted and get Content ID'ed! The song is called "The Bottle" by The Plutonium Project. AFAIK, it's recorded strictly for Slate and doesn't exist anywhere. The project is available for every major DAW if you have Slate All Access🤷🏼‍♂ Thanks for watching!

@@producer_randu5228 What do you mean by "unison"? Direct monitoring? Insert path for external hardware? Delay compensation? As I noted in my review, LUNA is horrible with sync. Visuals stop matching audio as soon as you add plugins. So if one were to use hardware, it would be through a series of busses and you'd have to compensate for delay manually. Does that help?

Ah! "Unison" is UA's tech for their Apollo interfaces. So you and I don't have that.

I think the same way you do. But the proof is in the pudding. I imagine one could recreate the *general* tone with a couple reverbs, EQs, compressors, and saturation, but like the "All EQs are the same," argument, at some point it becomes such a ludicrous proposition once there's one plugin that does it all with minimal tweaking. To me, this one achieves that. I'm sure it IS "just applying filters and IR," but the lengths they've gone to: getting tone from original tapes; having the OG engineers there to explain technique; modelling the whole path from speaker to mic to console to gear…it would just be a dog's age to get something this convincing lined up with plugins in-the-box (not to mention an insane CPU suck). My next plan is to try sinking an entire mix into it, as if the band played in the room! Oh! And to try a literal re-mikin by sending a DI guitar through it. Thanks for watching and commenting (and especially the trust!)

Well said. Def don't disagree with the basic principle. Didn't watch his compressor vid. Thanx for the insightful comment!

@@PinkNoPinkBand Generally speaking, the re-mic mode will be used on your drum bus-with all the direct mics routed to that bus. In re-mic mode, Sound City will completely replace the dry signal with the emulated speaker and mic"direct signal", as if you literally played the signal through two speakers in the room. Reverb mode is the send version, with no direct mic tone. That being said, you can totally choose what goes to a Sound City bus, insert it on individual drums, or even run it in parallel. Anything goes! Check the manual here for an explanation from UA themselves: help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/18738187503380-Sound-City-Studios-Manual#h_01HFPTGVSKW70S7C2H5QVJST8K

@@dahlhousestudios thank you so much for the feedback. Great video! Appreciate the educational content.