Hmmmmmm.osiris wrote:WOK's plugin adds the so-called psychoacoustic tones. I put it on a bass track. I don't think there's a preset for bass, but if you tweak the knobs a little can add very nice oomph. From the website:
BassPlus is an enhancer for low frequencies. Intended for drums, but works on other signals too of course. It's not a fixed EQ, but has a detector for lower frequencies and enhances them and/or adds a new subtone to it.
That's what the Waves does, except it has no detector/sensitivity control, which is I think if you want to add it to the whole mix.
Well maybe I'm missing something or being stupid - it does happen - but I didn't have much success with it.
I experimented with different ADDBASS and SENS settings, but the ADDBASS knob either did very little or caused unpleasant distortion And the note added by ADDTONE is controlled by the FREQU knob, rather than by the pitch content of the input* (AFAICT, anyway). Which means unless your bass line is monotonal - or at least very simple - the additional tones generated will be discordant at least some of the time. Which is why I think it's probably better for kick.
*unlike, for instance, the SUB sub-harmonic synthesizer of Voxengo LFMaxPunch
@ATS: Fair point...but since I already own the Voxengo plug the question of whether MaxxBass is cheaper or not is moot. For me, anyway
@DMuzik & Tp3: I hear what you're saying...but, erm, let's not go there! iLok, copy protection (etc.) seems to be a touchy subject round here, and I don't want a productive discussion to turn into a flame-fest
@tetsuneko: Yes, I like the mda plug (I like lots of the mda plugs, in fact; they may be long in the tooth but they still get plenty of use round here). There's another good one by loser (Michael Gruhn) called - I think - 50Hz Kicker. But, again, these plugs produce different effects from MaxxBass.
@kbaccki: I will persevere with the SAT module. LFMaxPunch is a complicated plug-in with lots of possibilities and I haven't fully got to grips with it yet. It's perfectly possible that with further experimentation I could get it to do what I want.