@@giabgr Yes I realised that after posting it 😄 Thanks for watching and happy new year!

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Thank you, Dag! Glad you liked it 🙃. Yes, I think one can try any distortion box and see if the tone suits the blend. I can imagine the Decapitator could produce similar tones to the P44, though. I tend to switch between the Decapitator, BB, and P44. I find that BB Tubes leans a bit on the warmer side, which works well sometimes. But for edgier types of distortion, other plugins might work better. Sometimes, overdriving an EMI Redd channel strip can also produce amazing edgy fuzz. However, it’s more of a one-trick pony. :P

Thank you @graywyot glad you liked it and Happy New Year! 🥳

Glad you liked it and thanks for watching! And yes, it is similar-a variant of multibussing and my own blend of something that, of course, is inspired by Brauer. The key is always to make things our own and find something that works for our workflow. Anyway, wishing you the best for 2025! 🎉

@G_handle Don't know if you watched Michael Brauer take everything in the box now. His assistant has created a lot of combinations of plugs in to recreate what Michael uses. It's on Pure Mix and really worth the time and money to watch it. I like getting ideas for things that others use and then make the changes to them for what I like.

@@KernSound I did see that! He's always been good at Sharing information, unlike a lot of the Pros from back in the day. However, he also told me to my face once at NAMM that he would "NEVER!!!" be able to do in the box what he does on his SSL. He had a dozen reasons why. (most notably that at the time Pro Tools sucked at delay compensation. Most other DAWs, specifically Reaper, had solved that long before this encounter.) It was clear to me then that as he had developed more sophisticated routing, relative to his peers, he hadn't yet understood the Unlimited routing that we were doing ITB and Hybrid. Back in the day, the the DAW really only replaced the Tape Machines. The 'Big Kids' only tracked into it and played out of it (their assistants did all the editing and comping). The "Mix" happened between the Board, the Outboard, and the Patchbay. Michael used ALL the incredible SSL routing to it's maximum potential, far beyond it's intended uses and well beyond his contemporaries. But even the 70's designed 80's & 90's dominating SSL 4Ks & 9Ks couldn't keep up with my 1/10th the cost Soundcraft Ghost, in terms of Serial & Parallel Routing, especially when paired with a serious Analog Patchbay configuration and utilizing All of the capabilities ITB both before and after the Analog stage. This sounded negative and I don't mean it to be. Brauer inspired a generation of us. He probably spent more time Really listening to the different Attitudes of Compressors than anyone in the industry. Michael Brauer epitomizes the idea that the Studio is a Musical Instrument and a Mix is a Performance.

@@G_handle I'm from that time period. Did preproduction for Eddie Money in Lafayette, Ca. We were on tape, first was the Tascam MS-16 and then later on an Ampeg MM1100. The board was a Sound Workshop Series 34. It had a great EQ on it. Miss that board. When I went in for my first DAW it was in 1996 AES show in San Francisco when I started looking. Hated the sound of all of them. ProTools, Cubase, Ect. Until I heard Sonic Solutions and I was sold. It was 24bit, back when all the others where just 16bit. Not much in plugins back then, but Sonic was way ahead of the rest. Editing was a breeze, and it really had no discernable delay. Mainly because they built it around the converter and over built the converter back then. Sal Zantz film center had them for all their film sound. I can tell you now that Michael may have been on the board only, but you can never say never, he is fully in the box now. Using the Avid mixing controller. I'm on Reaper after doing a couple of years on avid and hating it. Before that I was on Pyramix, which is amazing, but to damn expensive. Reaper gives me the speed I want when I mix. Love mixing in the box, but I really miss tactile mixing. Going to end up with the new Softube console 1's. I prefer to stay in the box, though I will add gear for my Mix bus. Right now I am traveling so it is easier in the box.

@@KernSound Nice! Hopefully traveling for fun & life experiences. So I bought my first Pro Tools rig in 1996. They called it Pro Tools Project, had an 8-channel, 882-IO Interface that was 8-in / 8-out Line only, no Pres, DIs, Headphones, Level Controls, nothing. You were only supposed to use it...with a Console, that provided all of that. And it was only 16-Bit 44.1/48k. PT itself was fixed point math back then, the converters were barely usable, and it cost 10 Times what a world class rig would cost today. However, I could see THEN what was it was going to be, what the potential was. (Though I didn't anticipate that by building Project Studios, we would destroy all of the dream studios in LA. Which is why I moved here.) Now, I've been a Pro Tools owner for decades, but I haven't been a Pro Tools lover in decades. It got more powerful, I learned to make it work, they got ridiculously arrogant, I tried other Fresher DAWS, and then one day Reaper came into my life. I probably have a Dozen DAWs now, but Reaper is the one for me. She does anything I can think of, and if not she'll learn. Along those lines, my dream was always to sit in front of an SSL. Then they made "affordable" desks and I was in. Problem was, which one? They kept making new desks with different design philosophies at competing price points. The AWS was out of my price range, the X-Desk & X-Panda were sweet, but really a lot for what they were. The XL-Desk had the 500-Series racks built in, but you could just buy the racks, and the rest of the desk had... compromises. Again, for the money. Then there was the Matrix, but also the Neucleus & Sigma combo, both made sense to me. But was Either an SSL? They were DAW Controllers with limited Analog capabilities. Hybrid Consoles, that makes sense in the new era. But I loved SSLs for having Fully Parametric EQs & Dynamics on every channel, the Bus Comp, for the Routing and Parallel Processing, etc. Now I also had (have) my Ghost, and an Audient ASP 2802. That combination was (is) my poor-man's SSL. Were these actual SSLs going to justify the cost against what I already have? Every year while others get 52 weeks, I only get 50. One week in January is spent in Orange County at NAMM, and another week in April is spent in Las Vegas at NAB. Whatever year it was, a couple of things happened: -Softube announced Console 1 at NAMM, along with SSL! And I fell in love. -And at NAB, I met and spent a good part of two days with Chris Jenkins from SSL. I was asking him about my SSL purchase dilemma, which way to go, and he not only cleared up my options, but treated me to the Entire History of SSL and the evolution of Console Designs over the past half century. He had been the guy flying around the planet since the late 70s installing the majority of the desks SSL commissioned. It's likely that no other human alive has touched or listened to more SSLs. His crystal clear answer to my purchase question was Matrix! 100%. "It's a mini Duality, priced $20,000 below where it should be." But then on day two, when I went by the booth just to say thank you, he pulled me back in to explain to me the different Fader Law and Gainstaging 'issues' between the lines. It was then that I brought up Console 1. He lit up. He explained that part of his job was to approve every product SSL licenses it's name to, and that the Softube Emulations were the best ever done, and the first that he couldn't confidently spot in an A/B. The most ringing endorsement was, "their plugins beat every other emulations out there, Including our own Duende!" I went home and Bought it! For $1000 you got ONE Console Emulation: the SSL SL 4000 E-Series. Then, I think for about $500 more, I bought the SSL XL 9000 K-Series. The desk I had been lusting after since the day it was announced. Now...under my fingertips. (I know this got completely out of control, but I'm on a roll so bear with me.) To shortcut my life story from here, let me add that at some point I bought a pair of Persons Quantum 4848s, which did a couple of things. For $1500 each you got 32/32 AD/DA converters, plus 16/16 ADAT, on DB-25s & Lightpipes, like the good old days. Except they're Thunderbolt Interfaces at 24-Bit/192 (I prefer 24/96) that have 120dB of Dynamic Range in and out, plus at 192 have 0.91ms Roundtrip Latency. Sub-Millisecond Latency means nobody complains. My UAD claims 1.1ms at 96k. I say ALLLL of that to say this: With a ton of channels feeding (say) a 32-channel Analog Desk, running at near-zero latency, and beyond the Dynamic Range of the desk; with Console 1 striped across all of those channels, either before or after, or both; with the Desk's Direct Outs feeding back into the DAW on a channel by channel basis, either just to Print the processing, or to use the Analog Channel Strips as analog channel strip Plugins; with the ability to Sum either in Analog on the Desk, or Digital back ITB, or both; This HYBRID workflow is far beyond what I could have imagined back when we were flipping through magazines reading endless articles about things I could never afford. For all of the nostalgia about how things were better in some imaginary past, if I was the 15 year old kid now that I was then, nothing could stop me.

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I don’t think he went too crazy with it?

Glad you liked it and that it inspired you:) @KernSound It’s cool to hear you’re trying out similar ideas. What compressors do you usually have in your vocal blend? Happy new year!

@@thomas_juth I almost always use Waves CLA76 blue right on the track, and then I have 6 Parallel Comps for different reasons. El Rey2 for mid body, Pawn Shop for presence, Fairchild 660 for lower body, MHB Green for different grit, Audioscape V-Comp for that Tube warmth, and RS-124 for enunciation. All depends on what I want out of the lead vocal.

@studiotest1 Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing! Great choices...I especially love the Baby Audio Parallel Aggressor. Tried it a while ago and loved it. 👌🏼 Happy new year!

@@greganikin7003 Thank you for watching and for leaving a comment. And yeah, you’re partly right. I’m using a doubler called ADT as a part of this process, but I’m also playing around with other layering effects in this video. As you perhaps saw, it also involved playing with the formant and adding reverb that was pitched. So there were several parts to this effect. Again, this was just me playing around, having fun, and trying to create something that was right for the song. And yes, you’re right. Part of it can be replaced with a doubler, but the other parts of this process were taking that further into something a bit more unique.

@ making things complicated doesn’t usually work. You were having fun that’s absolutely fine. You could also have soundtoys pitch plugin set before reverb and have it as a send aux and have exactly the same sound. And honestly, this fx you created doesn’t fit this song much + the reverb is way obvious and colored, it drags away the attention from the lead vocal.

@ I really appreciate you sharing your opinion 🙃 Merry xmas and wishing you all the best for 2025!

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Thank you @JohnGauge790 glad you liked it:) Happy holidays!

Thanks Juan! I actually boosted the higher mids, around 2-3 kHz. And yes, I did add compression :) Thanks for taking part and hope you are doing great!

Cool! Thanks for watching and sharing, have never Kilohearts actually. Will check it out.

Haha, peace and love... and thanks for watching! P.S. I also talk about someone having a great guitar tone-I know it might not be 100% accurate, but I’ll keep saying it anyway. 😉

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Haha, I actually started making videos just a year ago! But who knows-maybe I mastered time travel and posted from the future (or the 4th dimension) before I even knew it! 😉

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Haha true!

@@fcmas You’re not the first one to ask😄 I get it-holding a mic like this might seem odd, but hey, I’ve never been one to follow the ‘rules,’ whether it’s mixing or mic technique. It’s just something I like to do. When it’s close to my mouth, it sounds great, and honestly, it feels kind of nice to hold it. Having said that, I don’t always use this mic-for many of my videos, I’ve been using a Manley Reference mic on a stand. I just like to play around a bit and have fun. Playfulness is the key! Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment. Have a great day and a Merry Christmas!

@thomas_juth I respect it. Good video. Merry Christmas!

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@@thomas_juth thanks! :) hope you´re good too

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Yes for sure, and I should I mentioned that in the video too. In fact, this video could have been about mixing in general, but I just chose to focus on compression ;)

@thomas_juth I do like it. I mentioned saturation because of harmonics that some compressors can generate. Saturation ( color) and space fx give the vibe of a Record.

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Yes, that was just for visuals...but I agree, better to focus on plugins:)

He's making a point not related to the gear plugin debate

Alright alright, i watched most of it, and the intimacy tip is really great. 🙏

hahaha, it is corny for sure, but sometimes corny is good😜

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Corny? without emotion, music is pointless my friend. Emotion is EVERYTHING.

Indeed! :)

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