Sometimes I wonder what I would do if this channel didn't exist. Thank you very much for your work!!!! I'm looking forward to your chain of plugins on MDL TONE drums. And Happy New Year!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
What I like is not being the same as everyone else. With a lot of youtubers a new piece of gear comes out. Then everyone is making the same video the same week with the same gear. Everyone of them say the same talking points and always remind you. Its sponsored but their opinions are their own. lol You don't do that and that's why I love the channel. Maybe your not as big but then again you haven't sold out. That I can get behind. Thanks for all the content and thanks for showing us things most don't cover.
I love how you're doing this just for fun, and focus on free and cheap stuff. I respect anyone who can do music based content on RUclips in the long term! I did a music/gear review channel(Brothers in Metal) and gave up and started a new channel(in a different niche) when music content was too much for me. For me it was draining to always come up with songs, and I don't know how you do it. lol I talked with you a bit in the early days on your channel, and its good you're still going strong. I still don't think anyone is covering free/cheap plugins better than you.
@@DOSStorm cheers dude I remember your channel. Bought your album too. I always have ideas for music but obv I have luls now and then. I don't do much else hobbies wise lol.
Your channel honestly keeps me inspired to write and continue to try all sorts of different stuff to expand the sonic palette. I definitely agree about some of the guys running gear channel just phoning it in, and you can just see the burnout on their faces, but guys like you, Kyle Bull and Taylor Danley keep things interesting and having made friends with Taylor and the guys in his discord over the years, it's been nice to be a part of a really solid community of dudes who just want to nerd out about chugs and gear, be it digital or physical
@@resingtonTotally fair. I don't have so much gear. Just two guitars and a stupid amount of plugins. But in all fairness that's all you really need to make some cool music
You deserve way more subs. I’ve been introduced to Ugritone and Audio Assault thanks to your demos! With your minimal set up, your songs are what keep me coming back for more. I enjoy that way more than a highly edited, copy/paste bedroom producer set up. Happy New Year and can’t wait to watch more of your vids in 2025
Thank you so much for having this RUclips channel. I have learned a lot from you because I am a home recorder like you. Keep up the good work and keep making brutal quality music!
You're my favourite recording related RUclips guy, Graham! It's awesome that you concentrate on the budget stuff, that actually really helped me to start with my home production a year ago. Continue doing what you're doing, especially since it is fun for yourself! Cheers from Australia and a Happy New Year to you and everyone here!
Thank you so much for your work, thanks to you I have grown up so much in my skills to make my own productions. I love your authenticity, you deserve a way bigger audience man ! Cheer from france and happy new year.
You deserve to be where you are! Your subscribers like you because of your sincerity. You show that it is possible to make incredible music by yourself and without spending much money, that's what's important. I wish you and your channel a great 2025, may you become even bigger! Tamo Junto! Luan Albani
Man you hit the nail on the head with the points about authenticity. I've only recently realized the extent of it with the appearance of a certain brand of "kreative" laptops in a lot of sponsored youtube videos. A lot of channels I enjoy featured them and I couldn't help notice that none of them mentioned where these devices were shipped from. It turns out anyone ordering them from within the EU (probably a sizable portion of their viewers) could expect to pay about 35% more than the advertised price because these laptops were shipped from outside the EU, thats factoring in import duty, VAT etc. The sponsored videos were transparent about them being a sponsored video but all omitted that fairly significant detail that would mean potential buyers would have to pay a lot more than it appeared. You could argue its not their responsibility to make viewers aware of the import duty and tax implications of all products they advertise but I think in most cases most products they advertise can be sourced from multiple retailers in their area so these kind of extra costs can be avoided. Of course thats also not a concern for plugins that can be bought online. These laptops are sold by one individual company and are shipped from a part of the world that will almost certainly incur a significant additional charge for many viewers and it just left a sour taste in my mouth that none of the sponsored videos mentioned it, and many of these were from channels I've been a fan of for years. Ok rant over, wasn't planning on that being a novel but I just wanted to say your point about authenticity is appreciated as are all your videos good sir. Keep up the awesome work.
Thanks to you, i'm finally happy with the mixing on my upcoming tracks. You deserve way more subscribers for sure. Keep up the good work! Btw Deimos became my go to vst for guitar .
The rabbit hole is indeed really easy to fall into, I have plenty I’ve times, through the years I’ve spent money on a lot of plugins, some are definitely worth paying for, some though are not necessarily better than cheap/free/stock plugins, but I use them purely to justify to myself that I paid money for them
Thanks for being you and doing what you do. Your channel has inspired me so much on my music journey. You inspired me to learn to program my own drums instead of using groove packs. It took me a long time but now I'm really good at it. I appreciate everything and I love your music and your mixes. Happy holidays and I wish you the best in the new year.
Agreed. I root for Wavemind to keep the momentum up and they will have a great 2025! This channel is highly respected in the community, as it should be. When it comes to authenticity, I would like to mention one and it's "Dufful". An Australian guy who just loves metal, with great reviews and so on. Highly recommended. He enjoys Resington's channel as well 😀Happy New Year and a rockin' 2025! 🤘👍
Awesome stuff. Agreed on Wavemind, they came outa left field swinging. Wonder what's up with them discontinuing the drive pedals? hmm. I hear you about the authenticity thing. Generally I like the small channels. It might not be pretty looking or have fifty jumpcuts but the real life tone of someone dialing a plug is there, and that's what i'm all about. Awesome mix and tune. It really is about how to use the tools we already have vs buying ten EQ's and multiband this and that. Those are nice, I'll buy the occasional dynamics plug here and there. But workable and pro sounds can be had for free (except drums). Happy new year and here's to another beast year of demos and great music in general!
Your mixes are alwayz top notch ! I'm having hard time with my overall mixes, I'm missing some thing.. I mostly use Bogren stuff that are suppposed to be mix ready. Khrim drums and ampknobs or Nam with bogren IRs. The drums sound really food on itself but its very heavy in the low end in the mix. When I compare to a reference track its always too boomy and muddy, its like I have to cut the drum and the bass at 60 hz or so. Dot the guitars even with the bogren IRs I have to cut a 100Hz minimum. I play in D standard so its not too bass heavy 😅. When I've watched your mix tutorial you didn't have to make big treatment on the drum. Maybe I have to watch more tutorials on this drumkit. I use a panda kit, the sentinel, that is really less bassy and is really cool. But it sound less natural.
You didn't mention ur bass setup at all! What if it's not the drums, but the bass guitar causing all the problems?! Cause boomy is a keyword for out of control bass (guitar).
@MaximusAdonicus I was using simon grove bass vsti, now I use panda bass from panda sound and its more easier too keep thing under control. But you're right I certainly must look forward to upgrade my bass buss treatment
@@James-o1w5h VST instruments in general shouldn't even become very boomy, in my experience (vs real instruments). There's also the chance it's just ur speakers/room creating mad buildup at around 100Hz? :D Tried verifying the problem with headphones? The key to boomy bass is heavy compression! The key to muddiness is having the kick hit at diff main frequency than the bass guitar!
@@MaximusAdonicus I think modern vsti are bass heavy to plz the ears out of the box , and modern production are quite heavy too. I 'm not good at compression and it must be the key. I compare my mix with a référence track ( my type of sound is Sylosis)and Il alwayz too bass heavy. I mix most of the time with tbe headphone, that doen't help I know. But since I bought a mixed sessions from panda soud store, it helped me a lot for better mix between instruments , I may be not so far to achieve an acceptable sound
even though the drum track at the end says perfect drums, are you using mdl tone uhd? I'm just wondering how you're liking it with your master chain and if you had to make any significant tweaks to uhd or the master to make them work together. sick stuff as always brother!
@@alexwalshaw5897 hey man you're right it's uhd. I find I lower the high hats and chinas, maybe raise the crashes. Besides that it's near enough as is.
Although I partially agree with your list of the best plugins in 2024, but everyone's ears are different, as are the genres of music, but today there are no best plugins, because all modern plugins sound good and are made better than 10 years ago and there are so many of them that sometimes it is difficult to make a choice, and there is plenty to choose from, so everyone can find the best plugin for themselves. I wish everyone to find their plugin for their sound 🤘😎
Drumroll, please! Wow, you surprised me on a couple plugins, though my memory is taking a dump lately with all this stuff pouring out this year. Yeah, the rabbit hole is deep indeed, and my wallet gives me the evil eye frequently. We're all here because of the integrity and extreme quality of the content here, there isn't anything else like this channel on the Internet, not even close. I used to follow other review channels, but got really tired of the $4k amp and unaffordable guitar reviews and unsubscribed to them all. We might get a 20 second demo clip with no explanation or breakdown of what they are doing, then it's off to another $4k review. Definitely something fishy going on there. Thanks for keeping it real and steering us in the right direction with proper entertainment to go with it. 👑🎸🔥
How could You not mention the Axonic (from Groovelab) You ve been reviewing 7 month ago?! :) Thx to Your video I purchased it instantly and that amp is now my favourite out of the hundrents of Amp sims I have. It was my best purchase in 2024.
@@resington Understand, it surprised me by the out of the box sound and even after half an year I am still impressed :) But now I gave Deimos a deeper try (have it from some recent sale but did touch it just for few seconds back then) and now I am starting to understand why You like it so much. It really can provide nice variability in sounds.
Ya speaking of authenticity, there's a lot of content creators that plug amp sims they were paid/endorsed to say and you hear the amp sims and it sounds massive and top notch quality, then you try the demo for yourself and it's like bees in a can. I'm pretty sure they're just mic'ing a real amp a lot of the times. The only thing I dislike about Kyle Bull is his annoying click bait titles, other than that, he's super cool and doing a service for high gain tone heads.
Hmm, I assume these people are showing u full mixes with who knows what done to them? But when speaking about raw tones (like a "live" jam showcase), then the only things that truly affect it are the IR and the guitar. But if u have the same IR and any guitar with GOOD pickups, u should have very similar results 🤔
Sometimes I wonder what I would do if this channel didn't exist. Thank you very much for your work!!!! I'm looking forward to your chain of plugins on MDL TONE drums. And Happy New Year!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@maryiasiutsova happy new year dude thanks!
Thanks to you i discovered Wavemind. Its been a week having a fuking blast with the ToneSuite (distant) Thanks and keep videos like this coming!
Best high gain plugin I’ve played so far and I’ve played pretty much all of them
@@Dickachu2 cheers!
What I like is not being the same as everyone else. With a lot of youtubers a new piece of gear comes out. Then everyone is making the same video the same week with the same gear. Everyone of them say the same talking points and always remind you. Its sponsored but their opinions are their own. lol You don't do that and that's why I love the channel. Maybe your not as big but then again you haven't sold out. That I can get behind. Thanks for all the content and thanks for showing us things most don't cover.
@@21stcenturymetal31 cheers dude that's much appreciated!
I love how you're doing this just for fun, and focus on free and cheap stuff. I respect anyone who can do music based content on RUclips in the long term! I did a music/gear review channel(Brothers in Metal) and gave up and started a new channel(in a different niche) when music content was too much for me. For me it was draining to always come up with songs, and I don't know how you do it. lol I talked with you a bit in the early days on your channel, and its good you're still going strong. I still don't think anyone is covering free/cheap plugins better than you.
@@DOSStorm cheers dude I remember your channel. Bought your album too. I always have ideas for music but obv I have luls now and then. I don't do much else hobbies wise lol.
Your channel honestly keeps me inspired to write and continue to try all sorts of different stuff to expand the sonic palette. I definitely agree about some of the guys running gear channel just phoning it in, and you can just see the burnout on their faces, but guys like you, Kyle Bull and Taylor Danley keep things interesting and having made friends with Taylor and the guys in his discord over the years, it's been nice to be a part of a really solid community of dudes who just want to nerd out about chugs and gear, be it digital or physical
@@ronnywebster7391 thanks man that's great and I'm pretty picky about gear so I don't chat much online about it but now and then maybe.
@@resingtonTotally fair. I don't have so much gear. Just two guitars and a stupid amount of plugins. But in all fairness that's all you really need to make some cool music
You deserve way more subs. I’ve been introduced to Ugritone and Audio Assault thanks to your demos! With your minimal set up, your songs are what keep me coming back for more. I enjoy that way more than a highly edited, copy/paste bedroom producer set up. Happy New Year and can’t wait to watch more of your vids in 2025
Thank you so much for having this RUclips channel. I have learned a lot from you because I am a home recorder like you. Keep up the good work and keep making brutal quality music!
@@thomasgundersen8401 thanks dude!
Totally agree with you dude! But for us The 1st amp sim of this year is distant from WaveMind. Happy new year mate!
That was very nearly there and I should've mentioned it but NAM universal being free is hard put lower. Happy new year dude!
You're my favourite recording related RUclips guy, Graham! It's awesome that you concentrate on the budget stuff, that actually really helped me to start with my home production a year ago. Continue doing what you're doing, especially since it is fun for yourself! Cheers from Australia and a Happy New Year to you and everyone here!
@@daniltaru happy new year dude and cheers!
Thank you so much for your work, thanks to you I have grown up so much in my skills to make my own productions. I love your authenticity, you deserve a way bigger audience man ! Cheer from france and happy new year.
You deserve to be where you are! Your subscribers like you because of your sincerity. You show that it is possible to make incredible music by yourself and without spending much money, that's what's important. I wish you and your channel a great 2025, may you become even bigger!
Tamo Junto!
Luan Albani
@@devilslab cheers Luan! You keep making great stuff!
Man you hit the nail on the head with the points about authenticity. I've only recently realized the extent of it with the appearance of a certain brand of "kreative" laptops in a lot of sponsored youtube videos. A lot of channels I enjoy featured them and I couldn't help notice that none of them mentioned where these devices were shipped from. It turns out anyone ordering them from within the EU (probably a sizable portion of their viewers) could expect to pay about 35% more than the advertised price because these laptops were shipped from outside the EU, thats factoring in import duty, VAT etc. The sponsored videos were transparent about them being a sponsored video but all omitted that fairly significant detail that would mean potential buyers would have to pay a lot more than it appeared. You could argue its not their responsibility to make viewers aware of the import duty and tax implications of all products they advertise but I think in most cases most products they advertise can be sourced from multiple retailers in their area so these kind of extra costs can be avoided. Of course thats also not a concern for plugins that can be bought online. These laptops are sold by one individual company and are shipped from a part of the world that will almost certainly incur a significant additional charge for many viewers and it just left a sour taste in my mouth that none of the sponsored videos mentioned it, and many of these were from channels I've been a fan of for years. Ok rant over, wasn't planning on that being a novel but I just wanted to say your point about authenticity is appreciated as are all your videos good sir. Keep up the awesome work.
Thanks to you, i'm finally happy with the mixing on my upcoming tracks. You deserve way more subscribers for sure. Keep up the good work! Btw Deimos became my go to vst for guitar .
@@nunofmpires thanks so much dude!
Good lord. That song at the end was awesome. I really enjoy your videos.
The rabbit hole is indeed really easy to fall into, I have plenty I’ve times, through the years I’ve spent money on a lot of plugins, some are definitely worth paying for, some though are not necessarily better than cheap/free/stock plugins, but I use them purely to justify to myself that I paid money for them
Thanks for being you and doing what you do. Your channel has inspired me so much on my music journey. You inspired me to learn to program my own drums instead of using groove packs. It took me a long time but now I'm really good at it. I appreciate everything and I love your music and your mixes. Happy holidays and I wish you the best in the new year.
Great video dude!
Not long until you're at 10K! 👍
@@ChugDealer cheers chug!
Agreed. I root for Wavemind to keep the momentum up and they will have a great 2025! This channel is highly respected in the community, as it should be. When it comes to authenticity, I would like to mention one and it's "Dufful". An Australian guy who just loves metal, with great reviews and so on. Highly recommended. He enjoys Resington's channel as well 😀Happy New Year and a rockin' 2025! 🤘👍
Awesome stuff. Agreed on Wavemind, they came outa left field swinging. Wonder what's up with them discontinuing the drive pedals? hmm.
I hear you about the authenticity thing. Generally I like the small channels. It might not be pretty looking or have fifty jumpcuts but the real life tone of someone dialing a plug is there, and that's what i'm all about.
Awesome mix and tune. It really is about how to use the tools we already have vs buying ten EQ's and multiband this and that. Those are nice, I'll buy the occasional dynamics plug here and there. But workable and pro sounds can be had for free (except drums).
Happy new year and here's to another beast year of demos and great music in general!
Happy New Year Resington. Keep giving us great videos and please lots of templates for reaper...lol
@@RockPresets Happy new year!
Awesome video man!
Great effort and even greater riffing, you got +1 sub. Thank you!
absolutely love the hypertune
Have to try the Hypertune. Looking for a solid standalone pitch shifter. Thanks. Love your videos 👊🤘
Great vid man!!
Your mixes are alwayz top notch !
I'm having hard time with my overall mixes, I'm missing some thing.. I mostly use Bogren stuff that are suppposed to be mix ready. Khrim drums and ampknobs or Nam with bogren IRs.
The drums sound really food on itself but its very heavy in the low end in the mix. When I compare to a reference track its always too boomy and muddy, its like I have to cut the drum and the bass at 60 hz or so. Dot the guitars even with the bogren IRs I have to cut a 100Hz minimum. I play in D standard so its not too bass heavy 😅. When I've watched your mix tutorial you didn't have to make big treatment on the drum.
Maybe I have to watch more tutorials on this drumkit.
I use a panda kit, the sentinel, that is really less bassy and is really cool. But it sound less natural.
You didn't mention ur bass setup at all! What if it's not the drums, but the bass guitar causing all the problems?! Cause boomy is a keyword for out of control bass (guitar).
@MaximusAdonicus I was using simon grove bass vsti, now I use panda bass from panda sound and its more easier too keep thing under control. But you're right I certainly must look forward to upgrade my bass buss treatment
@@James-o1w5h VST instruments in general shouldn't even become very boomy, in my experience (vs real instruments). There's also the chance it's just ur speakers/room creating mad buildup at around 100Hz? :D Tried verifying the problem with headphones?
The key to boomy bass is heavy compression!
The key to muddiness is having the kick hit at diff main frequency than the bass guitar!
@@MaximusAdonicus I think modern vsti are bass heavy to plz the ears out of the box , and modern production are quite heavy too. I 'm not good at compression and it must be the key.
I compare my mix with a référence track ( my type of sound is Sylosis)and Il alwayz too bass heavy. I mix most of the time with tbe headphone, that doen't help I know.
But since I bought a mixed sessions from panda soud store, it helped me a lot for better mix between instruments , I may be not so far to achieve an acceptable sound
I appreciate Kyle Bull's channel too
Happy 2025 from Chile!!! Thanks for the continuous inspiration.
Have you played the berry amp update? The made it like amphub.
I like everything except they changed the reverb and i like the old reverb
Not tried it no. Maybe soon.
even though the drum track at the end says perfect drums, are you using mdl tone uhd? I'm just wondering how you're liking it with your master chain and if you had to make any significant tweaks to uhd or the master to make them work together. sick stuff as always brother!
@@alexwalshaw5897 hey man you're right it's uhd. I find I lower the high hats and chinas, maybe raise the crashes. Besides that it's near enough as is.
@@resington awesome insight on that, thank you!
Although I partially agree with your list of the best plugins in 2024, but everyone's ears are different, as are the genres of music, but today there are no best plugins, because all modern plugins sound good and are made better than 10 years ago and there are so many of them that sometimes it is difficult to make a choice, and there is plenty to choose from, so everyone can find the best plugin for themselves.
I wish everyone to find their plugin for their sound 🤘😎
Bogren IRDX Core is on sale for $24 for a while. Just picked it up. Really seems to add life to metal IRs.
@@phadrus I'm sorry dude already covered that. Not a fan.
@ that’s cool, what video did you cover it in? I’ll give a watch.
Res!!!! Man,have you tried any drum kits from Mixwave? I have the Austin Archey and the Jay Weinberg kits. They are awesome.
Not tried them yet man, cheers!
Lol i wana max weinberg drum plugin
Drumroll, please! Wow, you surprised me on a couple plugins, though my memory is taking a dump lately with all this stuff pouring out this year. Yeah, the rabbit hole is deep indeed, and my wallet gives me the evil eye frequently. We're all here because of the integrity and extreme quality of the content here, there isn't anything else like this channel on the Internet, not even close. I used to follow other review channels, but got really tired of the $4k amp and unaffordable guitar reviews and unsubscribed to them all. We might get a 20 second demo clip with no explanation or breakdown of what they are doing, then it's off to another $4k review. Definitely something fishy going on there. Thanks for keeping it real and steering us in the right direction with proper entertainment to go with it. 👑🎸🔥
@@shardzkaylar thanks as always dude, your support is massively appreciated!
@Resington - Would the developer of Wavemind plugins be open to porting them over to Linux ya reckon?
@@wayneatkinson7576 you can ask him. Thanks.
How could You not mention the Axonic (from Groovelab) You ve been reviewing 7 month ago?! :) Thx to Your video I purchased it instantly and that amp is now my favourite out of the hundrents of Amp sims I have. It was my best purchase in 2024.
@@praashek didn't make the top 5. Great amp though.
@@resington Understand, it surprised me by the out of the box sound and even after half an year I am still impressed :)
But now I gave Deimos a deeper try (have it from some recent sale but did touch it just for few seconds back then) and now I am starting to understand why You like it so much. It really can provide nice variability in sounds.
Ya speaking of authenticity, there's a lot of content creators that plug amp sims they were paid/endorsed to say and you hear the amp sims and it sounds massive and top notch quality, then you try the demo for yourself and it's like bees in a can. I'm pretty sure they're just mic'ing a real amp a lot of the times. The only thing I dislike about Kyle Bull is his annoying click bait titles, other than that, he's super cool and doing a service for high gain tone heads.
I always assume they're gonna sound different when I try them man, I actually don't mind some sizzle on the sims.
Hmm, I assume these people are showing u full mixes with who knows what done to them? But when speaking about raw tones (like a "live" jam showcase), then the only things that truly affect it are the IR and the guitar. But if u have the same IR and any guitar with GOOD pickups, u should have very similar results 🤔