I’ve tried to reply to this about a hundred times and must have gotten pulled away before I ever clicked send.
As for plugins, I just prefer to do as much as I can with as little screen time as possible. I do some very light comping here and there, but I prefer to use the computer basically to play and record. I just patch everything through a big live sound board and have had a great time so far. It’s more expensive than a $50 plugin but I can always sell physical gear unless something completely shits the bed.
losthighway wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:56 am
TC Electronics is the shit. A rare example of undervalued/used audio gear in today's market. Their M2000 multi effects unit has some great reverbs; plate and room emulations. The less ubiquitous Reverb 4000 is even a notch better, some have called it a poor man's Bricasti. The 2000 can be snagged for $300-400 on a good day. The 4000 takes patience to find for under $1k but they're both a fraction of what they fetched new when they were being manufactured.
Thanks as always - those are both a little out of my budget right now, but I’ve added them to my saved searches. There was a 4000 available for $1k right after you posted this, but couldn’t move on it yet.
I got a $150 Sony DPS-R7 to hold me over for a while and it’s ok. The long tailed reverbs either kind of work or don’t, but I only just found a tighter room sound patch to give a little ambience to a vocal. I can’t see myself adding gobs of this stuff anywhere.
The reverb helps, but I noticed the biggest improvement to adding space and depth was muting nonessential elements in the rough mix. Still looking forward to trying a TC Electronics thingy.