Re: [LAD] Digital Effects

On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 16:39 +0100, Harry van Haaren wrote: Unfortunately this is a very important advice! Assumed the digital effects are part of the studio in the box, the computer's horsepower seems to be much too important. Currently I make a song using a digital LFO controlled bandpass from 19" gear, Qtractor insert out -> sound card ADAT to analog -> analog in digital effect analog out -> analog to ADAT sound card -> Qtractor insert in. Assumed I could use all ADAT channels, I would use more external digital effects. JFTR, for me the computer's horsepower isn't an issue, but external digital effects often are much better than the available Linux plugins. YMMV! On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 13:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I remember 15 years ago there were a few fashions, it was chic to e.g. use "The Boiler" ( http://www.ridgefarmindustries.com/bprod.htm . I suspect that at the same time the visual vintage design was used for computer plugins too. It's strange that they until today tend to use faked old gear, make vintage looking GUIs and often they use real old gear. No successful Rockband comes without Orange amps, Vox AC30 etc., unfortunately they produce their Rock music, often recorded in old analog studios, using real Mellotrons etc., in the same way all the mainstream pop music is produced. Using less compressors, or at least carefully using the compressors would be welcome. When I was young I had not the money to buy or build compressors myself, later compressors were available and nowadays I try to work without compressors again, that's the luxury we have, if we don't make a living from music and audio engineering. When I learned audio engineering one of the most important rules was: If people are able to hear the compressor, you didn't use it correctly.