KVR Audio

YoddYarmonics · Post by **YoddYarmonics** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:52 pm

hi folkage,
ive been hearing praise upon praise about airwindows stuff which made me willing to dive into those.

Im writing this post to minimize the need of downloading all of em to a minimum (although im aware this can happen one day anyway - see, im a bit of a free plugin hoarder oops)

What are your favorite ones out of the collection? (any cathegory any%)

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 5:01 pm

Voice Of The Starship

https://www.airwindows.com/voice-of-the-starship-vst

Urb Sergeant · Post by **Urb Sergeant** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:39 pm

OneCornerClip
Baxandall
Toneslant
Capacitor 2
BitShiftGain
Everytrim
Tape
Desk4

Digivolt · Post by **Digivolt** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:06 pm

Clip Only on the master to protect my ears is the one I use the most, Peaks only and Monitoring are pretty useful tools too, the rest I haven't really touched, no doubt they're all great there's just too much choice, I keep wanting to set aside a day to go through them all but I'm quite lazy when it comes to being organised like that

jinotsuh · Post by **jinotsuh** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:18 pm

my list would be very short, but here it is . . .

noiseresearch · Post by **noiseresearch** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:25 pm

/* whitenoise */

ElevateAudio · Post by **ElevateAudio** » Sat Aug 01, 2020 4:32 am

Dark is the best dither going and Tape is very good as well. Interstage is a great subtle analogizer. You can stack 2 or more if one is too subtle for you.

s28 · Post by **s28** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:24 pm

Urb Sergeant wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:39 pm OneCornerClip
Baxandall
Toneslant
Capacitor 2
BitShiftGain
Everytrim
Tape
Desk4

great selection. got any others your into?

the new capacitator2 is very nice.

rafa1981 · Post by **rafa1981** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:43 pm

Channel4 on busses. Brutal.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:48 pm

BitShiftGain

I use this the most. Very quick and clean for adjusting pre/post other plugins gainstage.

Michey · Post by **Michey** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 9:05 pm

How can one even choose ? you got, like, 200 plus AW plugs... each has its own strength (and shortcomings...).

I can EASILY reach 20-30 chosen plugs...

Eauson · Post by **Eauson** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 9:22 pm

^ this
There’s so many, & most do more than what Chris probably intended
I like focus, MV and Distance and all the others

Distance is cool, specially about 90-100 miles on a bass

There’s some tips n bits here

http://beatdruid.com/index.php?title=Ai ... in_Catalog

Hermetech Mastering · Post by **Hermetech Mastering** » Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:58 pm

NJAD used every day here, but none of the others.

jbone1313 · Post by **jbone1313** » Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:03 pm

Why do people use dithers in this age of streaming?

I thought dithers were for taking the bit rate down to 16, mainly for CDs.

Hermetech Mastering · Post by **Hermetech Mastering** » Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:50 pm

I use it to dither: A) the DAWs internal floating point signal to 24 bit integer before my transfer DAC/analogue loop, and B) 32 float 96k final master, down to all the other deliverable formats.

It's best practise and it sounds better. Why wouldn't you dither any time you reduce word length? That's what dither is for.

As a mastering engineer, I am constantly making numerous tiny little adjustments and changes for sound quality, and trying to follow best practise for translation and robustness. Dither is a part of that. I'm not really sure what streaming has to do with it.

I don't use any of Chris's analogue style sat or comp plugs cos I have all that stuff covered in the analogue chain.

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