Oh, and if you're SERIOUS about it, go to a pro, as was suggested earlier. If you're not going to a pro, I can't see any of the above plugs doing significantly better than any other, so use the bundled freebie!
FinalMix compared to?
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- KVRAF
- 3971 posts since 19 Apr, 2005 from Brissie
Couldn't agree more, Greg - there's really no definitive answer (partly because solely software mastering isn't a pro solution yet). Just try a few things and you'll figure out what works for you.
Oh, and if you're SERIOUS about it, go to a pro, as was suggested earlier. If you're not going to a pro, I can't see any of the above plugs doing significantly better than any other, so use the bundled freebie!
Oh, and if you're SERIOUS about it, go to a pro, as was suggested earlier. If you're not going to a pro, I can't see any of the above plugs doing significantly better than any other, so use the bundled freebie!
I've joined Lurkers Anonymous.
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- KVRAF
- 16154 posts since 2 Dec, 2003 from Nashville, TN
It's true, there's nothing like going to a pro, if you have the rexources to do so. Being able to have a several hundred thousand dollar acoustically treated room with tens of thousands of dollars in gear and software, where even the main listening position has been created using lasers to get the best position. It's something that you just can't beat.
However, if you can't afford that, it's great to have something like FM. It definately adds a great amount of value to Tracktion. And I use it in every track. I personally like it better than the Waves plugins(though I don't own them, I have used them before). And I don't know of another host that has a better set of compressors then Tracktion. So it allows you to have all this on a tight budget, which is fantastic! I can't wait for the reverb and such. Exciting times!
Koolkeys
However, if you can't afford that, it's great to have something like FM. It definately adds a great amount of value to Tracktion. And I use it in every track. I personally like it better than the Waves plugins(though I don't own them, I have used them before). And I don't know of another host that has a better set of compressors then Tracktion. So it allows you to have all this on a tight budget, which is fantastic! I can't wait for the reverb and such. Exciting times!
Koolkeys
My host is better than your host
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
Well, it's a reverb. It's coming soon. What else can someone know? <chuckle>
What else can someone know? <chuckle>
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
In the not distant future, an effect will join the Tracktion family. It simulates the sound of an enclosed space... a "reverberation emulator" if you will.
Enough detail for ya?
Enough detail for ya?
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- KVRAF
- 16154 posts since 2 Dec, 2003 from Nashville, TN
I've even heard that with this new technology you can set how large you want the room to be! Now THAT would be cool!
Koolkeys
Koolkeys
My host is better than your host
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
Pffft... next you're going to tell me you can adjust things like the so-called "early" and "late" reflections? Or damping on the reverberated signal?
This isn't Space Trek, you know.
This isn't Space Trek, you know.
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- KVRAF
- 1933 posts since 29 Apr, 2005 from Beyond all space, time, and dimension.
I've been pleasantly surprised by FinalMix, but GEQ-7, NWEQ, and Posihfopit have the EQ beat, IMO. I keep that switched out and use the 3 Band. The dynamics presets are really well thought out. I agree with the previous statements that this was a serious company and they had audio smarts. Too bad they folded but I guess us Tracktion users got the better end of that deal.
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
No, that's called "Autotune". Totally different thing.
Frippertronix-- they didn't 'fold' per se, they were folded into Mackie Plug-ins as an active and continuing division. I have to watch the terminology I use!
Totally different thing.Frippertronix-- they didn't 'fold' per se, they were folded into Mackie Plug-ins as an active and continuing division. I have to watch the terminology I use!
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- KVRAF
- 1933 posts since 29 Apr, 2005 from Beyond all space, time, and dimension.
Oh, so they still develop. Good. Still, though, the Mackie buy out was a lucky break for us if FinalMix was really in the $300 range.Lunch Money wrote:No, that's called "Autotune".
Frippertronix-- they didn't 'fold' per se, they were folded into Mackie Plug-ins as an active and continuing division. I have to watch the terminology I use!
It is (for the foreseeable future) a fixture of my dynamics mixdown arsenal, along with WWAYM Dynamix and Soniformer 2.
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
Absolutely, still an active part of the Mackie family. Acuma Labs was part of Loud Technologies/Mackie since before Tracktion joined the family-- the Acuma Labs had developed the plug-ins for a Mackie product whose name currently escapes me. Kind of like a UAD-type thing, if I'm not totally going crazy and losing my memory. With the discontinuation (I think! There's the memory thing again!) of that hardware product, the software got ported to plug-in format and moved into the scope of the Tracktion and Mackie Plug-ins divisions.
I'm totally just making shit up and am NOT AT ALL certain about the factual veracity of all this... but it's how things strike me as how they may have occurred.
Kind of like that fling I may or may not have had with Charlize Theron last summer which may or may not have been just a daydreamed figment of my imagination.
Greg
I'm totally just making shit up and am NOT AT ALL certain about the factual veracity of all this... but it's how things strike me as how they may have occurred.
Kind of like that fling I may or may not have had with Charlize Theron last summer which may or may not have been just a daydreamed figment of my imagination.
Greg
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
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- KVRAF
- 1933 posts since 29 Apr, 2005 from Beyond all space, time, and dimension.
Yea, I understand. I still have pics of me and Mira Sorvino drinking our way through the postcard hamlets of the French Riviera last summer but I seem to have misplaced them.Lunch Money wrote:A
I'm totally just making shit up and am NOT AT ALL certain about the factual veracity of all this... but it's how things strike me as how they may have occurred.
Kind of like that fling I may or may not have had with Charlize Theron last summer which may or may not have been just a daydreamed figment of my imagination.
Greg
I actually went to Mackie to check (wishful thinking) for a new improved T2 and saw the plugs by Acuma and the card you mentioned (it still appears to be current and Mackie is selling plugs only for that card, nothing native I can see so the ports were only for the Tracktion bundles, if I'm seeing straight).
And....
, lordy these plugs are not cheap. Unless this is a turbo-charged DSP version of FinalMix for about $340 U.S. (was $400 
),then we really did luck out and it just drives it home that T2 is one of the best s/w deals to come along in many moons. 
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