What are your favorite “glue” plug-in’s?

[Obsolete236871]

What do you guys think of the Overloud Tape & Channel combo? Saw it on sale somewhere a couple of days ago. Has anyone tried it?

[AdvancedFollower]

I use Softube Saturation Knob a lot, with a very light setting. Haven't settled on a compressor yet but the VT1 from the SO Channel Strip Collection gets used quite a bit. Both of those are free.

[Tp3]

Noise

[sleepcircle]

airwindows' RawConsole5

if you are careful with how you set it up, and take a little extra time tuning it to avoid runaway DC offset drift, it provides a delightful, glistening sort of… closely interleaved smoothness.

[2NDMOUSE]

I started off demoing The Glue, and then as I always do when considering a new purchase, I asked myself if I already had something that would do the job that The Glue is lauded for.
So I discovered that Fabfilter Pro C2 and Klanghelm MJUC used together as a pair, make things glued and beefy. More than the Cytomic plugin on it's own.

I was testing various compressors like the elysia alpha, Kramer PIE and a few others, and the combinations of the Pro C2 and MJUC brought the sauce my track needed.
I've read many people talking about serial compression, where each is dialled back a bit, and in this situation, I really liked the effect, and it did more to the sound than one compressor on it's own was able to do

[Unaspected]

I started off demoing The Glue, and then as I always do when considering a new purchase, I asked myself if I already had something that would do the job that The Glue is lauded for.
So I discovered that Fabfilter Pro C2 and Klanghelm MJUC used together as a pair, make things glued and beefy. More than the Cytomic plugin on it's own.

I was testing various compressors like the elysia alpha, Kramer PIE and a few others, and the combinations of the Pro C2 and MJUC brought the sauce my track needed.
I've read many people talking about serial compression, where each is dialled back a bit, and in this situation, I really liked the effect, and it did more to the sound than one compressor on it's own was able to do

Mouse!

Haven't seen you around for a while. Good to see you're about.

Indeed, multiple stages of compression can work very nicely. I still don't own The Glue - though I own The Drop and The Scream. I might buy The Glue when it is updated but I'm more likely to grab Audiority's LDC2 Compander first. Klanghelm's MJUC is quite nice though I really like NI's Supercharger on busses, along with True Iron, Soothe and Tape. I also favour setups that use channel strips, so I'll often have a console emulation on every channel, including busses - for which, I currently use PA's emulations.

I stumbled into mixing like Andrew Scheps before I knew of the guy so I like to set up sub mixes that create relationships between sounds and also like a lot of distortion. For my distortion buss - which is often a mix of drums, bass and some vox (with a hint of other sounds from the mix that fit) - I still like HG-2 but I've used a modded The Scream preset before for similar duties.

The Drop has been known to find its way onto busses but I recently used it as first in my chain for each channel to band limit and saturate a drum kit.

If I'm clipping or limiting then I'll use Limiter No6. Owned other commercial limiters in the past but that freebie sounds great.

Really any channel where you are bussing multiple signals is going to give a sense of the signals being "glued" if they are processed the same. One could glue with a tremolo that processes vocals and a lead.

[MogwaiBoy]

My secret... no longer a secret now?

I create what I call "pass thru" presets for several analog emulations - using their most transparent yet 'enhancing' default settings (flattest EQ response, low level "barely there" harmonics, low wet mix, volume matched etc) - and then run several of them in series. These include Voxengo Warmifier (tube), Kazrog True Iron (transformer), Klanghelm SDRR (desk), United Plugins Front DAW (pre-amp), Analog Obsession Konsol (desk) and Softube Tape (tape).

Put 3 of those on a bus = instant mojo - or 3-4 of them on an Aux and send tiny amounts of each channel to it for parallel. When you render set them all to max oversampling.

You do NOT want to notice it's there - but when you remove them, something goes away. Listen carefully for image presentation of the sound and 3D-ness. Subtle non-linear/dynamic interaction is the key.

[2NDMOUSE]

Mouse!

Haven't seen you around for a while. Good to see you're about.

I feel like Old Ben when Skywalker rocked up and called him Ben Kenobi =)

Been working under the name Carbinax for about 5 years now. Busier than ever, but I more or less stopped posting here. Little sporadic visits every so often =)

[Unaspected]

My secret... no longer a secret now?

I create what I call "pass thru" presets for several analog emulations - using their most transparent yet 'enhancing' default settings (flattest EQ response, low level "barely there" harmonics, low wet mix, volume matched etc) - and then run several of them in series. These include Voxengo Warmifier (tube), Kazrog True Iron (transformer), Klanghelm SDRR (desk), United Plugins Front DAW (pre-amp), Analog Obsession Konsol (desk) and Softube Tape (tape).

Put 3 of those on a bus = instant mojo - or 3-4 of them on an Aux and send tiny amounts of each channel to it for parallel. When you render set them all to max oversampling.

You do NOT want to notice it's there - but when you remove them, something goes away. Listen carefully for image presentation of the sound and 3D-ness. Subtle non-linear/dynamic interaction is the key.

Funny you should say that. I was playing around with Audiority's HM-2 emulation the other day and found myself placing it before a reverb. Dialled the input way back and found something quite interesting after boosting the signal up and into the reverb with a clean gain stage. Not something I've ever done for a mix but might be something I experiment with further in the future. The sound felt more open. I kept the tone reasonably balanced and didn't allow any audible distortion.

And yeah. An HM-2. Who knew?

Certainly, when I use plugins like HG-2 (maybe something about the "HX-2" formula) clients have said that the mix sounds crystal clear even though I'm layering up the distortion. I've always found that amusing. Indeed, my main issue is keeping RMS levels down, rather than trying to increase them.

Mouse!

Haven't seen you around for a while. Good to see you're about.

I feel like Old Ben when Skywalker rocked up and called him Ben Kenobi =)

Been working under the name Carbinax for about 5 years now. Busier than ever, but I more or less stopped posting here. Little sporadic visits every so often =)

I believe you mentioned your new name previously but my memory must have rejected it for some reason. Sounds good though. Always nice to see people on other forums. Makes the world seem smaller. More manageable, maybe. Maybe not. But it's good to see you anyway.

[djanthonyw]

What's ironic is that I find Townhouse more Gluey than The Glue.

[Dirtgrain]

instant mojo

More mojo? Woot.

[audiot]

... used together as a pair, make things glued and beefy.

Common practice in electronic music I always have more than one compressor on the drum group. I checked your Soundcloud profile ... a few plugins that you should ckeck out, if you like glued and pumping beats:

- Xfer OTT (has it's own color but can do extreme compression)
- Hornet Multicomp Plus MK2 (in FET mode ... tricky sweet spot, but works wonders sometimes)
- Stillwell The Rocket (FET Type comp ... tricky sweet spot, but works wonders sometimes )
- Softube FET
- Kotellnikov GE / Nova GE
- PSP VintageWarmer

So yeah ... you want upward/downward compression and FET type compressors. But there are also other things to consider, like filling gaps in the beat with low volume Noise (Denise Noize 2 is perfect for that). And dont underestimate the Power of Sausage Fattener ... if you havent demoed it then do it

[jamcat]

PreSonus CTC-1 on the main out mixFX. THIS is what makes it sound like a mix more than anything else.

Parallax-Audio Virtual Sound Stage 2 to put instruments in a “room” together. Maybe not “glue” per se, but definitely cohesion.

T-Racks EQ 73 on every channel. I almost always leave all 3 bands at +0dB, and use it just for the MIC pre modeling. Maybe not really “glue” either, but it works in tandem with CTC-1 to really sound like the mix is going through a console.

T-Racks Bus Comp. I really only use it because an SSL buss comp on the mixbuss is the law, and I don’t want to go to audio jail.

[fese]

T-Racks Bus Comp. I really only use it because an SSL buss comp on the mixbuss is the law, and I don’t want to go to audio jail.

Sshhh, don’t tell anyone, but sometimes when I’m feeling adventurous, I don’t use a bus comp in the whole project! Live life wild and dangerous!

That being said, the T-Racks Bus Comp is great, I prefer it over the TrackComp2 bus comp of the time even if I cannot explain why. Probably because of bigger knobs.

[cron]

Variety of Sound's ThrillseekerVBL slammed to death and mixed in parallel.