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v1o · Post by **v1o** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:14 am

An opinion piece. He says plugins are convenient, but are far too much of a compromise compared to real hardware. And plugins companies will continue making you purchase new spruced up HD versions of existing plugins that you already own. Much like TV manufactures are trying to get us all to buy 4K and then 8K TVs. There's a conspiracy between hardware manufacturers, famous audio engineers and plugin companies - who all reap the benefits of us wasting money on plugins.

yellowmix · Post by **yellowmix** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 3:50 pm

He's fundamentally arguing against digital anything. Converters do the oversampling and filtering, it's been 8x/384 kHz since the Lexicon days up to the Bricasti M7. Older digital hardware employed analog linear-phase anti-aliasing filters. Many studios have a real plate and spring at least. I'd love to see an analog pitch shifter... imagining something using tape or an oilcan. Just goes to show analog has problems emulating digital.

BBDs can't be used, they sample values at a regular interval, thus they are subject to Nyquist-Shannon and must be lowpassed. So back to tape delay, chorus, and literal flange.

The conspiracy charges are a bit much, especially in the age of mass misinformation. The SOS article in question is from 2000 and SOS is slowly bringing all past articles to its new website format: https://www.soundonsound.com/more-sos-p ... les-coming. In fact, they link you to the Wayback Machine archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20150607012 ... /waves.asp Nothing to do with lizard people.

revvy · Post by **revvy** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 3:59 pm

v1o wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:14 am conspiracy

"Thanks" for sharing.

excuse me please · Post by **excuse me please** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:07 pm

Basically it's about a channel with 280 subscriptions trying to get more views. But I assume that won't bother the OP.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:09 pm

hardware is superior as it's not part of a global conspiracy to control the masses

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:17 pm

The Honest Truth about Audio Plugins

An opinion piece.

I got a few minutes into the vid before my eyes rolled so far back into my head that I could see my IQ decreasing.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:22 pm

I figure anything with that kind of title is statistically likely to be garbage.

Effectsworks · Post by **Effectsworks** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:52 pm

I already know the truth, so I don't need to watch this.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:54 pm

you can't handle the truth!!!

Effectsworks · Post by **Effectsworks** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 5:12 pm

vurt wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:54 pm you can't handle the truth!!!

LOL!

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 6:55 pm

cryophonik wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:17 pm I got a few minutes into the vid before my eyes rolled so far back into my head that I could see my IQ decreasing.

CrystalWizard · Post by **CrystalWizard** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:38 pm

I was laughing already at the title.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:40 pm

@the op, when you say "he says..." do you really mean "i say..." ?

Sparky77 · Post by **Sparky77** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 11:06 pm

v1o wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:14 am An opinion piece. He says plugins are convenient, but are far too much of a compromise compared to real hardware.

There are MANY CDs being produced using plugins that make it to radio.
Production techniques are always very important.
These days plugins can get close to hardware without the negative characteristics of hardware.

Its best to use both.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 11:26 pm

Is there such a thing as dishonest truth?