Is 2C's Aether REALLY worth it? (the answer is: yes, certainly)

[Warp69]

I did a little comparison of Aether and Lexicon Native Reverb on acoustic guitar.

Im not quite sure what you mean by 'more dense' and 'more detailed' - care to elaborate?

[rick-slo]

I did a little comparison of Aether and Lexicon Native Reverb on acoustic guitar.

Im not quite sure what you mean by 'more dense' and 'more detailed' - care to elaborate?

Just listen to the clips and draw your own conclusions.

[Andrew Souter]

amen, and thank you!

[Andrew Souter]

BTW, we are posting a bunch of new audio clips today. We will add to them over time also.

But, really I think what is most effective for everyone is simply to download and try the demo on your own material. Use your own ears, and brain. We are confident you will like what you hear.

The only challenge is how to show off the new presets expansion this way as they are not included in the demo. So in this case, the only thing we can provide are audio clips.

[Andrew Souter]

we are aware of the need for surround, and it is in our plans. No eta yet.

[Warp69]

Just listen to the clips and draw your own conclusions.

I did that of course, but unfortunately I still don't know what you mean by those terms. I was just hoping that you might had time to explain the terms relating to the samples.

[rick-slo]

Just listen to the clips and draw your own conclusions.

I did that of course, but unfortunately I still don't know what you mean by those terms. I was just hoping that you might had time to explain the terms relating to the samples.

I would rather the clips just be listened to as people hear different things being it is so subjective. That said if you are listening with a very good play back system that picks up details then just listen to the notes decay (which BTW that plus transients is why I picked this piece of music for the demo) you can hear the reverb tails on the various notes individually decay with the Aether. That is really quite nice. The Lexicon just does not do that to as fine a degree (it blends together more). On the other hand the Lexicon being a bit denser or thicker or lush, whatever you choice of words, has that classic Lexcion reverb quality heard on so many recordings of earlier decades and which many people like very much. I have bought both of these reverbs so I hope to get plenty of use out of both of them. On this particular recording I like the Aether a bit more.

[shogger]

I did a little comparison of Aether and Lexicon Native Reverb on acoustic guitar. Here is the link (could not get it to be clickable so copy and paste):

http://69.41.173.82/forums/showthread.php?t=182744



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Very unimpressive. Without the dry file for comparisson I call that useless.

Shogger

[Andrew Souter]

btw, if you increase the new cascade control some, to say 12.5% to 50% or so you can make the tails denser too if you like. It depends on the needs of the source material and you should be careful not to color your LRs too much by doing this...

[Adrenaline_Graphics]

Hey Galbanum, I noticed a strange thing...
Sometimes my cubase crahses cause of sound card conflicts with other devices etc... After that I cant load at all the plugin I have to reinstall it!

I'm talking about the 1,5 version...

Pls check it!

[kvaca]

we are aware of the need for surround, and it is in our plans. No eta yet.

Interesting info,thank you.

[eem]

Hi, just wanted to say hell yes! I am so happy to be one of the lucky ones who heard about Aether and picked it up. I used at least one instance on every song on my band's album which has been getting great reviews, especially on the "big budget" mix I managed to achieve in my project studio. I contribute much of that on the quality of Aether. The update is phenomenal and I would have paid for it, but genius move on Galbanum's part on the preset expansion packs. I instantly picked them up as soon as I heard about them. I may be done hunting for reverbs. If you are going to buy just one, this might be the most versatile and best sounding verb you can get on any budget.

[rick-slo]

I did a little comparison of Aether and Lexicon Native Reverb on acoustic guitar. Here is the link (could not get it to be clickable so copy and paste):

http://69.41.173.82/forums/showthread.php?t=182744



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Very unimpressive. Without the dry file for comparisson I call that useless.

Shogger

Thanks for your oh so kindly worded post. Nevertheless you have a point. Dry clips added. Knock yourself out.

Oh, here is the link again
http://69.41.173.82/forums/showthread.php?t=182744

[shogger]

I did a little comparison of Aether and Lexicon Native Reverb on acoustic guitar. Here is the link (could not get it to be clickable so copy and paste):

http://69.41.173.82/forums/showthread.php?t=182744



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Very unimpressive. Without the dry file for comparisson I call that useless.

Shogger

Thanks for your oh so kindly worded post. Nevertheless you have a point. Dry clips added. Knock yourself out.

Thanx. Sorry, my comment wasn't meant to be harsh. It's just what I think about the files I listened to. You have the reverb very low so it's hard to tell what is on the recording of the guitar and what was added later.
will check the dry file.

Shogger

[rick-slo]

I did a little comparison of Aether and Lexicon Native Reverb on acoustic guitar. Here is the link (could not get it to be clickable so copy and paste):

http://69.41.173.82/forums/showthread.php?t=182744



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Very unimpressive. Without the dry file for comparisson I call that useless.

Shogger

Thanks for your oh so kindly worded post. Nevertheless you have a point. Dry clips added. Knock yourself out.

Thanx. Sorry, my comment wasn't meant to be harsh. It's just what I think about the files I listened to. You have the reverb very low so it's hard to tell what is on the recording of the guitar and what was added later.
will check the dry file.

Shogger

That is the about the level of reverb I normally use for this kind of recording. I want a little body and stage added, that's all, nothing swimming in the stuff. More reverb would make it easier to pick out one from the other obviously but since that would be something I would not do what would be the point of demoing something I don't like the sound of? As it is however there is IMO plenty to distinguish between them with carefull listening and a good playback system. Take it for what it is worth or isn't worth for that matter if you are recording different kinds of stuff.