What are your favorite “glue” plug-in’s?

[mutantdog]

It changes but current favourite is Elysia Karacter.

[dumbledog]

Imagine you are using tape in a hardware studio, where does it go?

Right after the preamp or sources, where you record the initial sound source, before eq and compression.

In fact when I use tape sims I just put them in every channel and freeze immediately.

Also, first effect in the bus chain.

Seems logical. Do you throw on a band pass before all that to clean up the low and high ends?

[SMH]

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[SMH]

Imagine you are using tape in a hardware studio, where does it go?

Right after the preamp or sources, where you record the initial sound source, before eq and compression.

In fact when I use tape sims I just put them in every channel and freeze immediately.

Also, first effect in the bus chain.

I was about to say..... it gets mixed to tape too but you did say also on the bus too.

And it got mastered AGAIN to tape too! There were at least 3 tape gens before your vinyl record.

[layzer]

Gluing... god I hate that term, isn’t really about any specific plugin, but a process.

its a gimmick term to make you buy something you can do
for free if you know how to do it.

[Fleer]

It changes but current favourite is Elysia Karacter.

Ditto, with FabFilter Pro-C2 and Slate FG-Stress.

[m03]

Imagine you are using tape in a hardware studio, where does it go?

Right after the preamp or sources, where you record the initial sound source, before eq and compression.

Given how old recording console channels were configured, I think that hitting filters/EQ and occasionally compression before tape was pretty common.

[DrMEM]

My main ones are airwindows console 4 (makes a huge difference imo) and then some parallel compression on the 2 buss.

[scalawag]

Sonimus TuCo!

[SteDal]

Sorry, I'm a bit late to this party...

You should definitely give Mantis PWM compressor a go.

Very transparent, but absolutely gluey nonetheless...

[jbarish]

Sonimus TuCo!

This!

I just got it with the sale and am loving it!

[s28]

+1 on the above two posts!

Mantis and TuCo are both great for providing some gel between parts. I have been demoing compressors for a while and ended up going with these 2 having sold off the few I didn't use.

It starts with sound choice and how everything naturally fits together and plays off each other. Buss processing can help a lot to give cohesion between parts, saturation or compression on a buss for example will impart a similar character on all the parts routed there and have them react to one another.

On the master I pretty much always have satin, it provides a gluing and depth that I haven't heard in another tape emu. Buss compression depends on the kind of music, sometimes just a comp or two just kissing the needle to impart tone and subtle movement rather than heavy dynamic changes, sometimes something aggressive can work.

[peterdh]

Thanks to you this is becoming a nice topic Thanks

I started the same topic at the Dutch Synthforum. I transferred your contributions to that topic. Here are the contributions of the members of the Dutch Synthforum:

Yamaha Vintage Open Deck
Waves SSL G-Master Buss Compressor
PSP Vintage Warmer
Sknote Disto-S
Kush UBK-1
TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Nova
Vladg Molot
Cockos ReaXcomp

[jpga]

Never fail.
In combination.
First BX_Opto
Second Elysia Alpha Compressor

Please do not say anything to anyone!

[LeVzi]

Definitely the SSL Bus Compressor from Waves.

I had the "glue" itself once, and that was good, so this is really no different.

I dunno why these things have that "glue" factor, but they do.