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TotcProductions · Post by **TotcProductions** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:58 pm

waiting man wrote:
this site is getting better, hehe.

totc wrote:by the way "waiting man"...what the hell are you waiting for?
congratulations, you're the 4537383291 individual asking this thing!
...you've won a Barbie doll with moustaches.
(I think it's time to rethink the answer, too)

I retire what I wrote about the site.

Whoohoo!!! A barbie with a moustache!!! OWowowowowywowwowow! Should I send you my shipping information!?

lol, sorry for ruining KVR for you.

I'm out of my medication, so i'm a bit off today.

dundel · Post by **dundel** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:01 pm

FREAKS!!

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:07 pm

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wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:21 pm

Preamp vst i dont know but hardware vst Preamp color box is more like what you will get go to noisevault to see some preamps

greendoor · Post by **greendoor** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:39 am

The great sound engineers carry a range of preamps for the different flavours they all give. I agree that this is best done with hardware before the first A/D converter - because it's a bit late after the sound has already been colored. However - once your audio has been captured and is in the digital domain, it's not silly to perhaps want to superimpose the distinct flavour of a particular preamp. OK - so this is a bit like microphone modelling, which I despise, because there is no way you can make a cheap noisy low-bandwidth microphone sound like a great, low-noise full bandwith mic. But forgetting that, sometimes it's nice to add some color. We could purchase the best 'transparent' sounding preamp, and then add the color of tubes, transformers, etc with a plugin.

A convolution processer running impulses of hardware preamps does this - checkout SIR with preamp impulses from NoiseVault. Are they worth the trouble? I doubt it. I would rather get the color from stuff like PSP and Voxengo - but the idea still has some merit, and I would be interested in plugins dedicated to modeling the absolute classic preamps (Chandler, Neve, API etc)

greendoor · Post by **greendoor** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:03 am

Of course there are big difference between the sound of mic preamps and guitar preamps. A lot of classic 60's and 70's guitar tones were DI straight into a mic preamp - basically abusing them, but that was 'the' sound. (Chandler is basically the EMI desk channel that the Beatles used/abused at Abbey Road).

Plenty of Amp sims can give more ordinary guitar tones, e.g. www.simulanalog.org

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:12 am

FWIW, if you want a really handy free channel strip plugin, there's Vincent Burel's channelstrip.
http://www.vb-audio.com/

Head over to the demo download page and get the "StripTool V1", which is fully functional and free - rather basic controls over gain, EQ and compression, not your drastic sort of signal treatment either, but IMO sounding pretty nice.
As a nice little bonus, you can call up some sort of meter bridge, displaying the meters of all used channel strips in a project.
I got pretty good results out of it for some vocals.
CPU useage is almost un-noticeable too.

Guess this is a really secret plugin as I know about noone using it - now you can give it a try and be just as happy as me.

Shit, just informed you about some of my secrets of trade

VST Preamps???