Best plugin to create warm vintage silence?

[zerocrossing]

I’ve got a 47 gb sample library of all the classic analog silence from every single classic synthesizer, compressor, preamp and console. All lovingly recorded while they’re turned off by a naked mother breast feeding her newborn. PM me for purchase details.

[mcbpete]

I’ve got a 47 gb sample library of all the classic analog silence from every single classic synthesizer, compressor, preamp and console.

Pls let Acustica know so they can put out a new silent channel strip

[whassup]

I am a digital snob so to tackle this subject I think of the classic anechoic room simulator.
Being rather bored by such sophisticated and complicated solutions I asked Chad from the BeeGeeTees and he suggested to try the MUTE button.
It goes down to -132dB most of the time or lower.
If you wanna do it right just use a buffered bypass gate of your favourite guitar pedal.
And there is a recording called something like "3:12" or so where Brian Eno did it fully analogue. That could be sampled from the original vinyl and layered with all those rediculous digital modern wannabe solutions. Pfff.

[MattCable]

I use a tone of distortions, amps, saturators, preamps, little feedback on a lead synth or two each track, usually my bass too and sometimes vocals. Sometimes they even get too out of control when silent and I have to automate track mutes, but the benefit of that white noise underneath everything is it really glues it all together. It makes it feel like a real room with musicians and audio equipment.

Sometimes if it’s just a drum break and it’s extra quiet I have to automate the feedback noise down, but it’s indispensable, so you are on to something. Having background noise during silence/relatively sparse sections sounds so good

[zerocrossing]

I use a tone of distortions, amps, saturators, preamps, little feedback on a lead synth or two each track, usually my bass too and sometimes vocals. Sometimes they even get too out of control when silent and I have to automate track mutes, but the benefit of that white noise underneath everything is it really glues it all together. It makes it feel like a real room with musicians and audio equipment.

Sometimes if it’s just a drum break and it’s extra quiet I have to automate the feedback noise down, but it’s indispensable, so you are on to something. Having background noise during silence/relatively sparse sections sounds so good

Reported for taking the question seriously.



I’m a guitarist, and there’s always some electric guitar in my music, so that makes having to look for alternative noice sources unnecessary. Some of my hardware synthesizers also have a bit of a noise floor issue too. I do feel like the hunt for a super low noise floor is responsible for a lot of the clinical vibe a lot of modern music has.

But that’s not silence. That’s noise.

[whassup]

Yeah, after all the BAD analog noise that we tried to avoid (gates, Dolby, etc) back then now we inject noise again because...
And then I recently learned that there are all colors of noise, not only white and pink...
So it will be with silence.
Let it be dithered.

[MattCable]

I use a tone of distortions, amps, saturators, preamps, little feedback on a lead synth or two each track, usually my bass too and sometimes vocals. Sometimes they even get too out of control when silent and I have to automate track mutes, but the benefit of that white noise underneath everything is it really glues it all together. It makes it feel like a real room with musicians and audio equipment.

Sometimes if it’s just a drum break and it’s extra quiet I have to automate the feedback noise down, but it’s indispensable, so you are on to something. Having background noise during silence/relatively sparse sections sounds so good

Reported for taking the question seriously.



I’m a guitarist, and there’s always some electric guitar in my music, so that makes having to look for alternative noice sources unnecessary. Some of my hardware synthesizers also have a bit of a noise floor issue too. I do feel like the hunt for a super low noise floor is responsible for a lot of the clinical vibe a lot of modern music has.

But that’s not silence. That’s noise.

I saw everyone roasting away and thought to myself “idk it’s a good question” lmao

[imrae]

I wonder how many CLA76 users forgot to turn off the 50/60Hz hum from their default patch

[grandmasterbird]

I’ve got a 47 gb sample library of all the classic analog silence from every single classic synthesizer, compressor, preamp and console. All lovingly recorded while they’re turned off by a naked mother breast feeding her newborn. PM me for purchase details.

Do you take PayPal?

[enCiphered]

Try this on a dedicated silence bus under the whole mix (or only in gaps):

- very low room tone or distant rumble plus a separate wideband hiss layer
- dynamic EQ or multiband comp keyed from the mix so the silence ducks under dense parts and blooms in gaps
- add vintage motion: extremely slow wow/flutter on the hiss and a drifting mains hum (50/60 Hz plus harmonics, not a fixed sine)
- finish with noise-shaped dither

Bonus:
- convolve the room tone with an empty studio IR and lightly saturate the bus so the noise floor breathes instead of sitting there.

TL;DR:
don’t buy huge libraries of off-gear silence. Make your silence react to the music and it stops feeling clinical.

[zerocrossing]

I’ve got a 47 gb sample library of all the classic analog silence from every single classic synthesizer, compressor, preamp and console. All lovingly recorded while they’re turned off by a naked mother breast feeding her newborn. PM me for purchase details.

Do you take PayPal?

PayPal and ritual sacrifice.

[Frantz]

The best way is to sample a vinyl recording of John Cage's 4′33″ to get really warm silence.

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[Bunny_boy]

[Scoops]

clearly the solution is this plugin.

I turned my Biomat on full blast while listening to this plugin

I may never come back

[whassup]

The best way is to sample a vinyl recording of John Cage's 4′33″ to get really warm silence.

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Dang! I got the minutes and seconds wrong. And it was John and not Brian. But yeah, that one.