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COMPUTER MUSIC / Re: radiator - new soundtoys plugin

« on: February 11, 2013, 07:23:46 am »

thanks for the report, pascal. i love everything soundtoys does, but have really curbed my plug-in buying lately... but this does sound interesting. have you tried it as a channel/console emulator? do you think it works, or was made at all, do act like this? wonder what it would sound like on every channel of a mix...

i'll have to demo it i guess!

sorry taylor, for some reason i didn't get your reply in my email and didn't come back to the thread until today - i guess it's a bit late now:)

as a channel emulator, i think radiator can work well depending on sound source and providing you use very conservative settings. i've used it for two months now and i've found it very useful in many ways, especially as an instrument preamp, mainly guitar for me these days, with fairly conservative settings so i get more body out of the overall sound. i also used it as a distortion plugin, this time in a parallel chain so i can eq/filter the distorted signal further and bring it back subtlety into the mix. when pushed heavily, i can produce some very interesting results and works very very nicely on sine waves.

with further experimentation i found that all knobs have a distinctive and idiosyncratic way of distorting the signal and interact in a non-linear fashion with each other so depending on your sound source, there's always room for tweaking in very interesting ways.

@porya: for console emulation i often use the mcdsp's analogue channel plugin AC101. some great presets for a wide varieties of situations. bear in mind it's a very very subtle effect. nowadays, i mix down all my projects in mixbus and don't use much of AC101 as such. in mixbus, each channel is in itself modeled on its analogue counterpart and impart a certain sound to the material bringing back this elusive 'warmth' to the overall mix

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COMPUTER MUSIC / radiator - new soundtoys plugin

« on: December 21, 2012, 08:20:02 pm »

i just got the new radiator and really recommend it. can be very subtle or very noisy. saturate in a very nice way, very different from the decapitator though. i had it on a piano loop tonight and that really brought the piano back into the mix without making it to bright or artificially coloured. i also used it in a saturation loop on a send and i was amazed by the tone and colour it could add.

http://www.soundtoys.com/product/Radiator

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COMPUTER MUSIC / new soundtoys plugin for free

« on: March 16, 2012, 03:44:46 pm »

soundtoys are giving away a new preamp plugin for free until 29 march 2012.

you'll need to have an ilok to get it to work though.

https://www.soundtoys.com/sxsw2012/&rc=228-6117-862

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: pascal savy - receding (out now on twisted tree line)

« on: March 09, 2012, 08:30:23 am »

thanks taylor, sam and ralph:)

some great reviews already...

"“the EP sounds more like an electronic work, as hums and bright chords are accompanied by happy crackle and digital bells. The pops and bings turn out to have more of a presence than the identifiable elements, producing a sense of wonder.”
- richard allen for a closer listen

"Stuttering away like some old Shuttle 358 track, it has an introspect quality that it absolutely soozing."
- nils quak for resonant strata

"...as if the machines and sound sources have been left overnight to work things out for themselves following a large dose of psilocybin."
- andy gillham for fluid radio

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SELF PROMOTION / pascal savy - receding (out now on twisted tree line)

« on: February 25, 2012, 12:08:40 pm »

Release Info
Label: Twisted Tree Line
Cat no: TTL044
Release date: 25 February 2012
Format: 3” CD-r + postcard (limited series of 100)

Preview track
http://snd.sc/ykYaE4

Tracklisting
1 - if time allows (3:12)
2 - separate (6:40)
3 - receding (5:04)
4 - throughout (5:40)

About the release
ʻRecedingʼ was composed from November 2011 to January 2012 using a couple of piano samples recorded in a disused windmill. Those samples were later processed, deconstructed and partially removed from the compositions to become empty shells revealed by the sound world created around them, thus leaving indirect traces of their former existence.
The compositional process behind the EP was informed by various conversations about the concept of rhizome, phase differentiation and deterritorialization. Tones and shapes were often mutated and/or cross-pollinated from one track to another, serving as new points of departures as the EP was growing into its present form.

Credits
Music by Pascal Savy
Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Peter Nejedly
Postcard design by Twisted Tree Line

Links
http://www.twistedtreeline.co.uk/
http://www.staticsound.net/

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: Pascal Savy - Liminal

« on: October 10, 2011, 08:01:16 am »

Today is the official release date of 'liminal'.

A few reviews so far at textura, fluid radio, chain dlk and futuresequence.

Cheers,

Pascal

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SELF PROMOTION / Pascal Savy - Liminal (CDr available now)

« on: September 30, 2011, 05:33:51 pm »

Info Notes
Release date : 10 October 2011
Label : Feedback Loop
Cat. number : PhbL02
Format : CD-r (limited to 60 copies)

Produced by Pascal Savy
Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Leonardo Rosado

Tracklisting
1 - falling inward (4:48)
2 - reflective shadow (5:06)
3 - transference (5:08)
4 - lying drifting (5:36)


Press release

"Liminal by Pascal Savy is an abstract minimalistic drone sculpture using forms instead of
melodies. Like an exhibition over 20 minutes the EP introduces all imaginable perspectives of
the sculpture in an otherwise completely blank room."

Christoph Berg


Order: visit Feedback Loop

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: Harrison Mixbus

« on: July 20, 2011, 05:55:11 am »

i've just used mixbus for a recent project and i was quite surprised by the results.

my experience with daws includes cubase (in the atari days) and ableton live, and learning mixbus was quite easy. i'd say within a week of daily use i was fluent enough to work quickly.

in terms of workflow, i create my tracks in live and export stems that i re-import in mixbus. i then use mainly the mixbus eq and compression and of course the busses that features a native tape saturation plugin.

compare to composing and mixing as i go in live, i'd say the improvement is 2-fold:

- mixing is now separated from composing, which makes me focus on the mixing process only. since everything is laid out like on an analogue console the workflow is improved and there is less/no need for constantly cliclking away on plugins and whatnot  to change parameters etc. it would be nice to have another band of eq and a lpf but that's about the only problem i see so far. but the visual and direct access to things completely change the mixing experience vs 'norml' daw. it is also easy to map to a mackie control unit or compatible flying fader unit, which makes it even better and intuitive.

- the sound is quite different from what i'd get staying within live and using eq, compression and tape plugins for that purpose. i'd say the soundstage is wider and deeper. just exporting stems from live and playing them in mixbus changes the sound in a subtle way that were completely different from what i'm used to. the best way to describe it would be to say there is more grain and texture but that's very subjective and very very subtle. the panning seems also more precise.

so far i've been very happy with mixbus but i think i need to 'learn' the sound it imparts to the music a bit better.


re: Taylor

regarding the jack software i found it really easy to setup and much more stable than soundflower. i didn't feel i had to learn another daw per se. it was more like learning a new plugin. i don't arrange in mixbus.but the minor adjustements i had to make (ie moving parts, cutting and pasting, duplicating, fades etc) were very very intuitive.

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: Thoughts on the mix buss compressor

« on: May 18, 2011, 06:33:17 am »

i know there are no hard rules but as a starting point, would you go for a low threshold and low ratio so you knock off 2 or 3 db on a nearly permanent basis or would you go for an occasional 2-3 db gain reduction using higher threshold and ratio ie you don't hit the compressor all the time?

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 16, 2011, 04:54:23 pm »

motormark - chrome tape

machinefabriek, gareth davis - grower (hauntingly beautiful...)

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: Oh french fellow, where art thou ?

« on: April 16, 2011, 04:51:10 pm »

french but not living in france...

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FIELD RECORDING / Re: olympus tresmic

« on: March 22, 2011, 07:54:53 am »

i own an ls10 and i have to agree with the necessity of a dedicated recording level dial. very very useful indeed. it's seems the tresmic lacks this functionality. one good point though is the third omni mic meant to capture extended low bass. the ls10 is a bit wimpy in that regards but it's never been a problem for what i do.

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: sequencer?

« on: March 11, 2011, 05:18:21 am »

this looks great and is very very compact:

http://www.mfberlin.de/Produkte/Musikelektronik/Urzwerg_Pro/Urzwerg_Proe/urzwerg_proe.html

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COMPUTER MUSIC / Re: eq vst

« on: February 27, 2011, 04:05:23 pm »

ddmf does great eqs for a very nice price. i use the lp10 for mastering duties but it comes with high latency so not so suitable for mixing tasks. but their iieqpro ois very good too:

http://www.ddmf.eu/product.php?id=0

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Re: recommendations for a phono pre-amp

« on: February 19, 2011, 03:23:49 pm »

just received my preamp. it's completely changing the experience of listening to vinyls:-)
but i can only compare with the phono socket on my hifi amp i used before and/or my cheap mixing table. i'd say it's the same improvement in sound that when i went from a m-audio sound card to a duet on my computer.
now it's time to replace my mk2...