Music we produced/mixed/mastered with Melda Plugins

[Frankie.T]

I'm curious to listen the music you work with using Melda plugins, so i wanted to start a topic about that!

Feel free to post a link (free to listen with a browser, like youtube or soundcloud) on a song you worked on using Melda plugins.
If you wanna also write something about certain parts in the working where a plugin made something interesting it's a nice addition.

If someone use MSoundFactory, please write the most as you can, like the instrument you used and how you like to use it. Since it's something i'm not really using but i'd like to (i feel there's potential but a lack of "ready to use stuff, with some exception!).


The following song it's my last single and i mixed and mastered using mostly Melda plugins

Probably the most used plugin in this song is MAutoDynamic, i use this plugin a lot!
I also used MUnison for the vocal effect at 0:14, it worked pretty well there.
I also used MFilter to make almost every hp/lp effect and MModerncomp and some instrumens cause it's very clean and surgical when needed.

MTurboComp made all my vocal compressions. I created my own presets of 1176 and la-2a, cause i'm not very happy with these related devices. What i made it's something that works pretty well on vocals and i'm very happy about the result.
I wanted even vocals, to be present during the whole song and in face of listener, i want them gritty to, and this compression helped.

On my mastering chain i used MADEQ to shape the tone and automations, then MCompare to compare all the pre-loud chain against the finished product, i wanted that part to be a bit more saturated, but without any other changes.

I'm curious to listen and read from you now!

[Svama]

Cool vibe, great emotions. Maybe you will do a deconstruction, mixdown video, would be really interested. Mostly how you use mmodern, cause I don´t get this tool into my workflow.
Which plugins aren´t Melda?

Thanks for this nice song.

[Frankie.T]

Cool vibe, great emotions. Maybe you will do a deconstruction, mixdown video, would be really interested. Mostly how you use mmodern, cause I don´t get this tool into my workflow.
Which plugins aren´t Melda?

Thanks for this nice song.

I'm glad you like it!

I made a mixing and mastering course over this song, but this one isn't free. Although i made some very small pills taken from the course you can watch them here if you want (few more still to come)

About MMC i just don't use the bottom part, a user in this forum explained very well, but i forgot it
So i use it just the "normal" compressor on top with attack, release, ratio and so on, nothing really different from what you would use on a normal compressor, i just find MMC to be very transparent and surgical in a good way, it became my go-to compressor when i want to tame and control peaks, but also for sidechain compression, i.e. if i want to duck a delay with the voice, i use MMC on the delay so it get ducked when the voice is present.

Then as many Melda plugins it's very light so it's a pleasure to load their plugins without thinking to be somehow conservative to avoid any cpu issue as i had with other companies plugins.

Now i'm not on my studio pc, so i may forget something, but as far as i remember other plugins that aren't Melda i used in the project are the following:

Pro-R as one reverb of 3 i used on vocals
Valhalla Supermassive as other reverb on vocals (the last one on vocals should be MTurboReverb)

Saturn 2 in different sounds i think.

StandardClip as clipper

Voxengo Elephant as final limiter

Timeless 3 for the vocal delay

I don't think i've used anything else from other companies, but i may forget something

[Tyrs]

The following song it's my last single and i mixed and mastered using mostly Melda plugins

Production as per handbook in positive sense! A bit too polished and low on dynamics for my taste, but honestly... I would be glad having such mixing and mastering skills.

Hope during winter break I'll have time to publish some new stuff on YT... using mostly Melda tools, so it'd fit here as well.

Btw - this thread is a great idea! Also good luck with the single!

[Frankie.T]

Thank you Tyrs!

I love polished and curated mixes, this makes songs to sound professional for my taste, but every song and style comes with different needs, sometimes i also like a some sounds to be more wild :p
About dynamics, is pop, and as it is for every commercial music doesn't need biggest variation like you may want to ear on some cinematic music or other styles.

I'm curious to listen your music (along others) so don't be shy and when you have something you want to share along the way you used Melda for it!

[Hexspa]

I'm curious to listen the music you work with using Melda plugins, so i wanted to start a topic about that!

Feel free to post a link (free to listen with a browser, like youtube or soundcloud) on a song you worked on using Melda plugins.
If you wanna also write something about certain parts in the working where a plugin made something interesting it's a nice addition.

If someone use MSoundFactory, please write the most as you can, like the instrument you used and how you like to use it. Since it's something i'm not really using but i'd like to (i feel there's potential but a lack of "ready to use stuff, with some exception!).


The following song it's my last single and i mixed and mastered using mostly Melda plugins

Probably the most used plugin in this song is MAutoDynamic, i use this plugin a lot!
I also used MUnison for the vocal effect at 0:14, it worked pretty well there.
I also used MFilter to make almost every hp/lp effect and MModerncomp and some instrumens cause it's very clean and surgical when needed.

MTurboComp made all my vocal compressions. I created my own presets of 1176 and la-2a, cause i'm not very happy with these related devices. What i made it's something that works pretty well on vocals and i'm very happy about the result.
I wanted even vocals, to be present during the whole song and in face of listener, i want them gritty to, and this compression helped.

On my mastering chain i used MADEQ to shape the tone and automations, then MCompare to compare all the pre-loud chain against the finished product, i wanted that part to be a bit more saturated, but without any other changes.

I'm curious to listen and read from you now!

Our workflows sound similar and I like your track. It sounds clear and separated as well as bright but not harsh. You seem to have gone for a slightly retro sound which I appreciate since some modern stuff can be a overcooked for my taste. Here's my track, "Liquid Crystal Woman":



In this mix, I used MTurboCompMB with 1176 and LA2A models in parallel on vocals as well as unlinked 1176 for "rear buss" and some other models for parallel drum compression. I also have a "dirt" parallel buss with MDistortionMB or MSaturatorMB and MTurboReverb for a couple returns also. Of course about 100 MAutoDynamicEQs

Besides Melda I still have Timeless 2 for a couple delays, Melodyne for vocal tuning, and Apogee Soft Limit for clipping.

For "mastering" I probably used MADEQ, MDynamicsMB and MMaximizer or whatever it's called. Ultramaximixer? Somewhere in there I used MStereoProcessor also to adjust image and add excitement to the top frequencies. MCompare to match it to my references during production, mixing and mastering.

Now that I think of it, I wanted to build this mix from "the bottom up" and prioritize separation between kick and bass. In retrospect I'm not sure if that was the best idea even though I like how it turned out. But to achieve that, I recall using MSpectralDynamics with a sidechain setup to get clean separation. It worked but almost too well. I mean that in the sense the separation is so surgical that it sounds as though they're not separated. In other words, with regular sidechain compression, you get some rhythmic artefacts but not with this. Maybe you can set it to have that but that's what I remember observing.

[Frankie.T]

Thank you for your post!

I really like the synths in the refrain cause are completly unexpected (like the "lickquid" hahaha ), along other sounds that comes during the song.

Probably it just sounds a bit too clean in a sense that lack of saturation, but this is ofc matter of taste, i'm just addicted to saturation and anyway since the nature/idea of this song, it may even be better that clean for the modjo as a part of the artistic choice

[Hexspa]

Thank you for your post!

I really like the synths in the refrain cause are completly unexpected (like the "lickquid" hahaha ), along other sounds that comes during the song.

Probably it just sounds a bit too clean in a sense that lack of saturation, but this is ofc matter of taste, i'm just addicted to saturation and anyway since the nature/idea of this song, it may even be better that clean for the modjo as a part of the artistic choice

Yeah, could be. I tend to mix pretty dry and that might be down to preference since I've been doing it like this for years. Maybe next time I'll go harder with the reverb and distortion so I can find a better balance between the two extremes. Thanks for your feedback and checking it out.

[Chandlerhimself]

Everyone's music sounds so good. I should watching Frankie's tutorials, because sometimes I need some help. Anyway I guess I should share something. Here are 2 songs made with only melda plugins.

This is a typical metal song I wrote just to try out my new 7 string guitar and test some of the presets I made for MGA.



This is a somewhat wacky song I made when I wanted to try something new.

[Frankie.T]

Thank you Chandler for your comment and for posting your music!

Yours it's good music, for the first song i just feel the lack of vocals, but i'm addicted to music that comes with vocals

Althoug the second song is good also without vocals, i would just placed some more automations, but again i'm kinda addicted to automations, i like when lots of stuff keep happening in the song, filters, reverbs, panning and so on.

But i could just saying a bunch of wrong things, i mean music is art and there is no good or wrong way to do it, with some exception when it comes with some specific genres, like "commercial" music such pop and edm (that unfortunatly it's what i do) cause it comes with lots of rules, that even autocracy have less hahaha

[Hexspa]

Everyone's music sounds so good. I should watching Frankie's tutorials, because sometimes I need some help. Anyway I guess I should share something. Here are 2 songs made with only melda plugins.

This is a typical metal song I wrote just to try out my new 7 string guitar and test some of the presets I made for MGA.



This is a somewhat wacky song I made when I wanted to try something new.

Nice. Good grooves. Got some Deftones vibes off the first and Polyphia off the second.

[Tyrs]

Guitars are amped and mixed with MGA. Drums are entireley done with MD. Bass is with MSF. Btw - would be nice to get MBass one day

[Steve Bolivar]

MD for drums, synths are MSF, guitars are mixed through MGA, all effects are Melda.

[zedeloc]

Guitars are amped and mixed with MGA. Drums are entireley done with MD. Bass is with MSF. Btw - would be nice to get MBass one day

That snare reverb and overall vibe reminds me so much of Samhain's November Coming Fire.

Here I used a lot of melda utilities, like MAutoAlign for the drums, some MTurboReverb, the Pink Floyd Piano + Rotary ripoff in the middle trippy section was Meldway Grand and the Vintage Rotary. Pretty sure I'm using the melda chorus. Definitely using MSpectralDynamics to make some space between a couple elements. I'm sure theres a ton more in there but it's been a while.

[Tyrs]

That snare reverb and overall vibe reminds me so much of Samhain's November Coming Fire.

Here I used a lot of melda utilities, like MAutoAlign for the drums, some MTurboReverb, the Pink Floyd Piano + Rotary ripoff in the middle trippy section was Meldway Grand and the Vintage Rotary. Pretty sure I'm using the melda chorus. Definitely using MSpectralDynamics to make some space between a couple elements. I'm sure theres a ton more in there but it's been a while.

That rips. I love how the vocals blend with the guitars.

Didn't listen too much to Samhain, will check them out.