Whats your favorite plugin you use to make things sound satisfyingly "analog" ?

[vurt]

don't cross the streams.

learn thy nerdage or perish in mooooordooooor!

[Unaspected]

I don't really have a favourite plugin that captures the sound of hardware units - there are too many. I really appreciate the work of Luca Capozzi of "Audiority" and Reimund Dratwa of "Fuse Audio Labs" (Neold, Black Box Analog Design, Black Rooster Audio, etc.) with regards to tone and pleasing saturation/distortion.

[pdxindy]

I use synths that don't need help sounding present and alive.

[whyterabbyt]

I ring-modulate everything with some early Merzbow.

[jamcat]

Digital can’t do distortion, it only does clipping and you don’t want any of that. But what real analog distortion does, not as an effect, but rather as a byproduct of a dynamic performance that pushes the console as the singer hits a high note, conveys energy and excitement. This is what I’m looking for from “analogue.”

Yet you claim to accomplish all of that with digital plugins, DAWs etc....you're chasing analog with digital.

You can model different types of analogue distortion with algorithms in software. But as a medium, pure digital doesn’t do distortion, it stays clean and sterile until you fill all the bits. Then it just clips.

This is precisely why you need analogue modeling in the digital domain.

[plexuss]

Digital is Analogue.

[Teksonik]

Digital can’t do distortion, it only does clipping and you don’t want any of that. But what real analog distortion does, not as an effect, but rather as a byproduct of a dynamic performance that pushes the console as the singer hits a high note, conveys energy and excitement. This is what I’m looking for from “analogue.”

Yet you claim to accomplish all of that with digital plugins, DAWs etc....you're chasing analog with digital.

You can model different types of analogue distortion with algorithms in software. But as a medium, pure digital doesn’t do distortion, it just clips once you fill all the bits.

This is precisely why you need analogue modeling in the digital domain.

So in other words what you're trying to do is impossible.

That's my point, no one "needs" analogue modeling. Some people think it's desirable some disagree.

I just don't want anyone who is new to all this madness to fall for the hype and think they should spend tons of money and time chasing the mythical analog Unicorn. It's possible create great sounding music without ever getting near the word analog in 2022.

But more power to you, if you think it works for you then party on..........

Seems like it's the old guys who should be defending analog: "things were much better back in my day" but apparently at least some of us are the ones who have less reverence for analog and more appreciation for the power we have at our disposal today. Perhaps it's just more appreciation for the progress of technology over the decades......

[jamcat]

If you’re playing a guitar, you’re either playing through an analogue amp or a digital analogue model of one. Even in 2022.

[donkey tugger]

Digital is Analogue.

Or the other way around?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicis ... -20220526/

[vurt]

Digital can’t do distortion, it only does clipping and you don’t want any of that. But what real analog distortion does, not as an effect, but rather as a byproduct of a dynamic performance that pushes the console as the singer hits a high note, conveys energy and excitement. This is what I’m looking for from “analogue.”

Yet you claim to accomplish all of that with digital plugins, DAWs etc....you're chasing analog with digital.

You can model different types of analogue distortion with algorithms in software. But as a medium, pure digital doesn’t do distortion, it just clips once you fill all the bits.

This is precisely why you need analogue modeling in the digital domain.

So in other words what you're trying to do is impossible.

That's my point, no one "needs" analogue modeling. Some people think it's desirable some disagree.

I just don't want anyone who is new to all this madness to fall for the hype and think they should spend tons of money and time chasing the mythical analog Unicorn. It's possible create great sounding music without ever getting near the word analog in 2022.

But more power to you, if you think it works for you then party on..........

Seems like it's the old guys who should be defending analog: "things were much better back in my day" but apparently at least some of us are the ones who have less reverence for analog and more appreciation for the power we have at our disposal today. Perhaps it's just more appreciation for the progress of technology over the decades......

not all progress is good.
not that i disagree with the rest, id suggest however, it's possible to appreciate both, even at the same time.
both have strengths and weaknesses, and can enhance the other.
blindly removing an option, just because it's old, is the wisdom of fools.
don't like it that's fine, im not saying you have to, just to suggest that analog is bad, digital is good, is about as stupid as the people who say the opposite. like what you like, leave others to do the same, that way, we get to listen to all different kinds of music and mixes.
and that's the way it should be, there is no correct path, there are many paths that will get you there.

[vurt]

Digital is Analogue.

Or the other way around?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicis ... -20220526/

so analog is not non binary?

[vurt]

it's all just air particles vibrating in the end.

[donkey tugger]

it's all just air particles vibrating in the end.

[foosnark]

You won't get it!

[vurt]

it's all just air particles vibrating in the end.

who needs information?