What are your favorite “glue” plug-in’s?
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- KVRist
- 121 posts since 4 May, 2020 from Rome, Italy
u-he Presswerk and Softube Chandler Limited Germanium!
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- KVRist
- 284 posts since 31 Aug, 2020
Glue compressor or The Glue packs everything very nicely. There's no real competitor when you want "that" fat sound imo
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- KVRAF
- 7014 posts since 16 Aug, 2017 from UK
Acustica Cream Compressor and Tim Petherick's L-bus comp v2.
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- KVRAF
- 4720 posts since 26 Nov, 2015 from Way Downunder
The biggest glue-ing things in a mix, in my opinion, are not a particular plugins but a few sonic unifying techniques...
1 - Parallel processings using aux send for things like compression, reverb and saturation.
2 - Bus processing in general does wonders for unifying groups of sounds and instruments
3 - Sidechaining whether that is compressor ducking, feeding dynamic EQs or Trackspacer type plugins etc so that your elements are dynamically interacting, even subtly.
Otherwise, yeah there are specific plugins that can help "glue", like slapping Ferric or TCS-68 on a drum bus and pushing them.
1 - Parallel processings using aux send for things like compression, reverb and saturation.
2 - Bus processing in general does wonders for unifying groups of sounds and instruments
3 - Sidechaining whether that is compressor ducking, feeding dynamic EQs or Trackspacer type plugins etc so that your elements are dynamically interacting, even subtly.
Otherwise, yeah there are specific plugins that can help "glue", like slapping Ferric or TCS-68 on a drum bus and pushing them.
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- KVRian
- 529 posts since 2 Sep, 2012
On the master buss I really like Silika from Kush or Presswerk from u-he, good controllable saturation and compression on both of them.
I agree with the statement above that it’s more about technique than which plugins we use. Many things can help with glue when it comes to mixing, like saturation, reverb, delays - which ones I, or you, use doesn’t really matter, it’s how they are used that gives the feel. Like a nice small room reverb on a programmed drum kit, could be algorithmic or could be convolution based, you can’t tell in the mix. Same thing with instruments, running them all through a bit of room reverb can help glue things together. It doesn’t take much to notice it when you mute the effect and it can really help in making things sound cohesive.
I agree with the statement above that it’s more about technique than which plugins we use. Many things can help with glue when it comes to mixing, like saturation, reverb, delays - which ones I, or you, use doesn’t really matter, it’s how they are used that gives the feel. Like a nice small room reverb on a programmed drum kit, could be algorithmic or could be convolution based, you can’t tell in the mix. Same thing with instruments, running them all through a bit of room reverb can help glue things together. It doesn’t take much to notice it when you mute the effect and it can really help in making things sound cohesive.
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- KVRAF
- 7014 posts since 16 Aug, 2017 from UK
MagicDeathEye is magicVortifex wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 10:08 am Synths: MJUC, Reelbus 4
Drums: MJUC, MagicDeathEye, Townhouse
Master: MagicDeathEye, Townhouse
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- KVRian
- 798 posts since 5 Oct, 2020
softube american class a is my go to but pretty much every effect can glue 2 sounds together, reverb and spatialisation tools like precedence works well, or just a bit of saturation like true iron, toneshapers kelvin or goodhertz tupe
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- KVRAF
- 2514 posts since 28 Sep, 2012
Omnipressor
Vulf
Tupe
Unisum
Faraday
FIRComp
TDR kotelnikov
Slick EQ GE
Hammer EQ
Acme Opto
Kelvin
SP950
SP2016
Vulf
Tupe
Unisum
Faraday
FIRComp
TDR kotelnikov
Slick EQ GE
Hammer EQ
Acme Opto
Kelvin
SP950
SP2016
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- KVRAF
- 2514 posts since 28 Sep, 2012
perpetual3 wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 7:11 pm Omnipressor
Vulf
Tupe
Unisum
Faraday
FIRComp
TDR kotelnikov
Slick EQ GE
Hammer EQ
Acme Opto
Kelvin
SP950
SP2016
UrsaDSP Boost
Newfangled Elevate
Goodhertz Midside
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- KVRAF
- 2596 posts since 12 Nov, 2014
Yeah, these have more impact than any one compressor.MogwaiBoy wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 10:48 pm The biggest glue-ing things in a mix, in my opinion, are not a particular plugins but a few sonic unifying techniques...
1 - Parallel processings using aux send for things like compression, reverb and saturation.
2 - Bus processing in general does wonders for unifying groups of sounds and instruments
3 - Sidechaining whether that is compressor ducking, feeding dynamic EQs or Trackspacer type plugins etc so that your elements are dynamically interacting, even subtly.
Otherwise, yeah there are specific plugins that can help "glue", like slapping Ferric or TCS-68 on a drum bus and pushing them.
Anything shared really. Parallel distortion enhancing also helps, as with same eq and compressor across a group of plugins. I just wouldn't go too crazy with any one thing.
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- KVRist
- 475 posts since 4 Apr, 2016
Absolutely. This is my way too.MogwaiBoy wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 10:48 pm The biggest glue-ing things in a mix, in my opinion, are not a particular plugins but a few sonic unifying techniques...
1 - Parallel processings using aux send for things like compression, reverb and saturation.
2 - Bus processing in general does wonders for unifying groups of sounds and instruments
3 - Sidechaining whether that is compressor ducking, feeding dynamic EQs or Trackspacer type plugins etc so that your elements are dynamically interacting, even subtly.
Otherwise, yeah there are specific plugins that can help "glue", like slapping Ferric or TCS-68 on a drum bus and pushing them.
But in the mixes I am using Vari Mu compression. I think it glue things better (IMO) than VCA-SSL comp styles. But, who cares?
