KVR Audio

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Mon May 25, 2009 7:11 pm

That kind of plugins is meant to be subtle - unfortunately most are not subtle enough imho.
In the golden analog days people were striving to get clean signals mostly, not routinely distorting everything as seems to be frequently the case nowadays.
For that you can find lots of better suited FX elsewhere.
Selectively putting subtle saturation on channels, better groups and, even more subtly, on the stereo bus can help bring out all those desirable qualities already described in a mix, small things do add up.
The way I see it, with that kind of FX you should only notice something's missing when you bypass them, the moment you hear obvious distortion it's probably too much already.
Another great addition to Bootsie's repertoire, and the unique transient feature gives us another much needed level of control.
Many thanks to Bootsie and Patrick !
Ymmv,
susiwong

meloco_go · Post by **meloco_go** » Mon May 25, 2009 7:57 pm

susiwong wrote:Selectively putting subtle saturation on channels, better groups and, even more subtly, on the stereo bus can help bring out all those desirable qualities already described in a mix, small things do add up.

Well, IMHO you gotta always check saturating plugins on channels versus ob busses. Anything non-linear would introduce intermodulation distortion that may muddy things, or add glue if you're lucky.
Personally I prefer adding some dirt on tracks and then, just a little, on the 2-buss.

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:07 pm

I still wish bootsie would release just the saturtion stage from BootEQ mkII as individual plugin, even though it's low on CPU, but sometimes I'd just love to use that one to "color" the sound a bit. Sure is a different (may I dare saying) "saturation routine" than the Nasty Series.

Then again, I'm sure this won't be the last plugin from that engineering tool smithy.

shogger · Post by **shogger** » Mon May 25, 2009 9:09 pm

Compyfox wrote:I still wish bootsie would release just the saturtion stage from BootEQ mkII as individual plugin, even though it's low on CPU, but sometimes I'd just love to use that one to "color" the sound a bit. Sure is a different (may I dare saying) "saturation routine" than the Nasty Series.

Then again, I'm sure this won't be the last plugin from that engineering tool smithy.

Often I simply ignore the eq section just for the overdrive. But the eq gets more and more use here, too.

Shogger

sunny_j · Post by **sunny_j** » Mon May 25, 2009 10:10 pm

Compyfox wrote:I still wish bootsie would release just the saturtion stage from BootEQ mkII as individual plugin

i still wish he would make booteq compatible with higher samplerates...
c'mon bootsie...pretty plz

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Mon May 25, 2009 11:01 pm

afaik only the "original" one is compatible with 44kHz and 48kHz. The new one should be compatible with higher samplerates.

Then again, you work with 4x oversampling internally in the saturation stage - do you really need 96kHz or even higher? We're not at times where we can release stuff at 48+kHz to normal listeners unless we talk BlueRay in the audio realm.

I'm fine with 48kHz.

*whoops - guess I started "that" discussion again*

sunny_j · Post by **sunny_j** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:02 am

i was talking about the eq section, not the saturation section. eq section is limited to 48k max

ughnonumus · Post by **ughnonumus** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:50 am

Thanks, for that. You're the gooderest!

s_t · Post by **s_t** » Tue May 26, 2009 8:04 am

+1 for higher samplerate support with booteq!
Greetings from 2009

bootsie · Post by **bootsie** » Tue May 26, 2009 8:49 am

Thanks to all the feedback and comments on TesslaPRO here. In addition to the explanations already made here about the TP effects there is a nice short review by a gearslut which imho pretty much nails it http://www.gearslutz.com/board/4218638-post10.html and some more motivation on this plug-in concept was already given in my blog.

have fun,
bootsie

sunny_j · Post by **sunny_j** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:48 pm

i just love the bass knob

. it puts a smile on my face every time i use it.
and about the ripple thingy, well it can be controlled by using the either drive or the boost knob or a combination of both... i am soo happy.

a MASTERSTROKE by bootsie

sunny_j · Post by **sunny_j** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:50 pm

hey bootsie! your signature image should be TesslaPRO now

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Wed May 27, 2009 12:38 pm

bootsie, just wanted to congratulate you on the release of TesslaPRO! Still cant belive its free

.

Also great work on the blog..

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Wed May 27, 2009 3:01 pm

Optomadic wrote:bootsie, just wanted to congratulate you on the release of TesslaPRO! Still cant belive its free .

Also great work on the blog..

+1

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed May 27, 2009 3:20 pm

So I'm curious: is this plug-in doing anything in its default state, or do you have to change the settings first?

Congrats btw. LOVE the new look!

TesslaPRO (update v1.0.1)