What are the best filters you have heard??

[hoffy]

i think this plugin is f**king excellent... i love it.

And i'm not going to bother intellectualizing it any furthur with bullshit about it muddying up the sound, about setting input gain, about how clean (or not clean) the clean preset is, about setting Q this and frequency that.

It sounds good =)

[jah1234]

My preview copy of volcano is timed out now...

I liked the way it f****d up my tracks, but I did have an issue with some poofs in Live 5 when tweaking the filters using the handle in the slope display--so I think I'll query the developer's forum before I plunk down the $99 bucks for it.

YMMV.

Hey I've had that too!!! In Live 4/5 - CPU spikes, making the computer temporarily freeze. Is that the poofs you're talking about? I contacted the developers and they've tried to update volcano but the 1.11 prerelease version they sent me still had the bug. Please send them an email so they know its not only me having CPU spikes.

Volcano is the best filter plugin out there IMO. It sounds better than anything else I've tried. And worse - it's addictive. I want to test it on everything. I love the sound quality, the distortion, filter panning, and the fast lfo's!

You guys talking about the 'clean' preset distorting the signal - to my experience it is only the Fabfilter (EDIT: I mean the Fabfilter One)characteristic that does this. That is: distorts the signal without applying Q. Ever thought of changing filter characteristic to something else? Load up the 'clean' preset and change characteristics of both filters to 'Smooth'...

[_starcraft_]

BTW ... the HIGHLY acclaimed filter quadfrohmage also colours the sound when set to full cutoff and zero Q (and i dont hear anyone complaining about that) ...

... in fact the only one i personally have installed that doesnt is filterscape ...

... tis the nature of the beast

slainte rob

I never tried quadfrohmage....but usually a low pass filter needs a little resonance boost (+20/30%) to match the incoming signal (cos of the filter curve which kills some mid/highs).
that's my experience with filters so far anyway.
if even adjusting Q still doesn't get u close to the original sound....then there's a problem.

[amenbrother]

The best filters for me are, ms 20fx, Emu-x, Sh-101.

I like filters to colour my sound, I want its character, thats why I use it.

Cheers

[_starcraft_]

The best filters for me are, ms 20fx, Emu-x, Sh-101.

I like filters to colour my sound, I want its character, thats why I use it.

Cheers

that is a great filter....not tried the others.
of course u want colour....but when u r actually filtering (as in adding or boosting frequencies).

[fritzman]

P.S. I dunno if you in some way could check out Vampire. It's a really good filter plugin. Made by ... Guess who? And no, I'm not <insert some disclaimer here> with the dev.

Well, if you've seen 'the other' filter thread then you'll know that I'm not allowed to check it out because I'm an very biased and evil man according to the developer.

- bManic

Oh sorry. Yes, I should have left this out. But what about the Strat?
It has good sounding lowpass filters, too. OK, it has no resonance knob. That's the original Strat. Mine has no filter onboard. I'm filtering with extra hardware and in the pc.


Best wishes, FRitz

P.S. Until now I failed to successfully use my Strat in trance. I use different tools for that.
P.P.S. My Strat sounds as fat as a Virus! And it's pure analog.
P.P.P.S. On high volumes with good distortion it even has some nicely controlable self oscillation!
OK, I let go now.

[bmanic]

Grrr.. I want your strat! I'm using a cheap tele ripoff, but hey, it works very well as a paddle for a canoe too.. try doing that with your strat!

- bManic

[bmanic]

My *fun* is to demask sneaky people like you.

.. you really need to get some help you know? Try giving a to people once in a while instead of being so arrogant and agressive. It might help.

- bManic

[fritzman]

Grrr.. I want your strat! I'm using a cheap tele ripoff, but hey, it works very well as a paddle for a canoe too.. try doing that with your strat!

- bManic

Hm,

you're a "little" too far away to shortly come around so lending you my Strat is no quick option.

So, you've got one of these paddle Teles? My Strat has a boat neck, does that count, too?
I once read about a british guitar manufacturer who made a guitar for a punk band. The guy said that it needed to be water proof and more precisely beer proof so that the punkies could use it safely on stage.


Have fun, FRitz

[psychopractor]

As far as software goes, my favourite by far at the moment is the one in Ugo's Rez vst.

[polyslax]

Grrr.. I want your strat! I'm using a cheap tele ripoff, but hey, it works very well as a paddle for a canoe too.. try doing that with your strat!

- bManic

Hmmmm, Strat or Tele? Love 'em both, but I think I actually prefer the Tele. I had both but sold my electrics (and my beloved Twin) about 10 years ago. All I kept was my Ovation acoustic/electric. One day I'll get back to electrics...

Oh yeah, Volcano is a beautiful tool. I love the sound of it.

[Hermetech Mastering]

digital/plugin filters sound shit compared to analogue filters. buy one and hear the difference for yourself. am i in the wrong forum?

[fritzman]

digital/plugin filters sound shit compared to analogue filters. buy one and hear the difference for yourself. am i in the wrong forum?

No.

[Hermetech Mastering]

ha ha! glad i'm not the only one who feels like this then! my fave is the moogerfooger mf-101 (bog moog r.i.p.) closely followed by those in the roland sh101/mc202/tb303 etc.

[electro]

Are any Native filters better than Gmedias?