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Sound Mechanics · Post by **Sound Mechanics** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:00 pm

I am thinking about getting a stereo hardware unit to put drums, softsynths etc through, to add a different feel to the sound.
What budget units are there (eq or compression) that may add a different flavour to a sound. Would a small analog mixer do the job?

Thanks

Sam@Megablastic · Post by **Sam@Megablastic** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:17 pm

The best one I found is to mic up soft synths using your studio monitors and say an sm57 mic. This adds air or a realness that vsti fx can't quite do. It's hard to explain, but it makes virtual synths sound a bit more real.

petterdass · Post by **petterdass** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:17 pm

Any cheap crap mixer will do the job. I will recomend a joe meek stereo compressor

Sound Mechanics · Post by **Sound Mechanics** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:28 pm

Thanks for the replys

petterdass wrote:Any cheap crap mixer will do the job. I will recomend a joe meek stereo compressor

How would you describe the sound through hardware as you have mentioned?

pschelfh · Post by **pschelfh** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:30 pm

Why not pass it thru vst FX ?

Check out Filterbank3 for some serious mangling or Nebula3 for 'hardware' sounding compressors and equalizers.

Peter.

Sound Mechanics · Post by **Sound Mechanics** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:36 pm

I use to have a tfpro mono channel strip and I remember putting a soft synth through it. It sounded different/smoother than any plugin...just nice different, and I am thinking of a stereo box that will do something similar.
Maybe focusrite's twin trak pro!

pschelfh · Post by **pschelfh** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:47 pm

Sam@Megablastic wrote:The best one I found is to mic up soft synths using your studio monitors and say an sm57 mic. This adds air or a realness that vsti fx can't quite do. It's hard to explain, but it makes virtual synths sound a bit more real.

Sam,

How do you do that ? Don't you get feedback that way ?

Peter.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:49 pm

Hemmick Reef wrote:I use to have a tfpro mono channel strip and [...]

You've just answered your own question, nothing else will cut it:
http://tfpro.com/products/info/p10.php

pschelfh · Post by **pschelfh** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:52 pm

Hemmick Reef wrote:I use to have a tfpro mono channel strip and I remember putting a soft synth through it. It sounded different/smoother than any plugin...just nice different, and I am thinking of a stereo box that will do something similar.
Maybe focusrite's twin trak pro!

I must admit, I love tracking guitars thru my old Boss DL100 (a rack version of all their saturation/distortion units). Sounds much better than DI when I put an amp simulation on it afterwards.

Peter.

Sound Mechanics · Post by **Sound Mechanics** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:54 pm

C00kie wrote:
Hemmick Reef wrote:I use to have a tfpro mono channel strip and [...]
You've just answered your own question, nothing else will cut it:
http://tfpro.com/products/info/p10.php

That's the baby - wish I had a grand though, I need to go cheaper!

pschelfh · Post by **pschelfh** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:55 pm

C00kie wrote:
Hemmick Reef wrote:I use to have a tfpro mono channel strip and [...]
You've just answered your own question, nothing else will cut it:
http://tfpro.com/products/info/p10.php

Hemmick Reef wrote:What budget units are there (eq or compression) that may add a different flavour to a sound.

€2300, not quite budget.

Peter.

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:06 pm

pschelfh wrote:
Sam@Megablastic wrote:The best one I found is to mic up soft synths using your studio monitors and say an sm57 mic. This adds air or a realness that vsti fx can't quite do. It's hard to explain, but it makes virtual synths sound a bit more real.
Sam,

How do you do that ? Don't you get feedback that way ?

Peter.

No, you don't monitor the mic input, or with a multi channel soundcard- monitor the mic input through headphones on another channel.

Hardware to process soft synths through?