+101 Cheers!kvaca wrote:well written!FabienTDR wrote: I try to fill this gap with my plug-ins. It's really time for high-end audio processors that make no compromises on audio, no matter the price. The "I don't care how big, how heavy or how expensive it is, just give me the best sound possible" approach isn't uncommon in the analogue market, but I can't see any true high-end plug-ins (except the excellent Algorithmix products and Crane Song maybe).
I can imagine how many people are waiting for affordable compressor or limiter in Splitcomp quality
as a sidenote, judging by my trusty old VST anal-eyeser [you know - for "anal" people ], Fabien's pets are of very hi-quality. If you ask me, I'd have some complaints about the peak compression in *FB I*, that is a bit more on the "typical" side of things for a plugin [RMS comp is great though], but in FB II... it's a beautiful plugin. I cannot thank Fabien enough for sharing it with us. Do you accept donations, man? I've never checked that out.
My guess is that some people have become accustomed to some compression plugins that are of not such good quality, but sound "good" to their ears will not like this one so much. People's ears have accustomed to bad aliasing and shi* like that. Even I like a bit of "digital dirt" these days... damn But thankfully, I listen to such a variety of music that it's impossible to escape how nicely sounding music used to be, and how badly sounding it is these days in comparison. I'm not even touching the artistic value here, just technical value.
Which is actually very weird considering we have such relatively cheap and great audio reproduction and recording systems at our disposal these days. The "Hi-Fi" of today sounds sooooo much better, for much less money, than it used to sound when I was a kid, for even much more money. And yeah, that was quite some time ago. No, not *so* long ago... cough. [I'm 41]
I mean, get any decent digital PCI or PCIe audio card, some good DA converter [like cheap TC BMC-2], connect it to active speakers like Krk VXT-6 or 8, and you've just got yourself a great Hi-Fi system for so much less money than it used to be in the 90s, for instance. Of course, your choice of speakers can vary. I think VXTs are really nice for the money. I don't have them though, but I think of acquiring them as my second monitors since they sound quite different to Dynaudios, and I like how they sound.
Sorry for the OT!!! I tend to talk too much... aaargh