Your Favourite Effect.....?

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by aizo » Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:49 pm

I like my FX's like I like my girls.....fucking DIRTY

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by 3dot... » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:01 pm

aizo wrote:I like my FX's like I like my girls.....fucking DIRTY

Distortion beotch

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by necho » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:04 pm

My Favourite FX:

LFO/Envelope controlled filters - FF Volcano and Filterfreak FTW!!
Anything grain-delay based
Delays with saturation stages
Algorithmic Reverbs (f*ck convolution!!!)

IMO Most underrated FX:

Distortion (particularly when mixing)

IMO Most overused FX:

Reverb - often, you only need a TINY bit!
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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by Minimal Justice System » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:32 pm

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by musicmachine » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:33 pm

I'd probably say Nitro for tha adding of teh spice to my tracks, can't get enough of it right now. :twisted:
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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by djwack » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:10 pm

Zebrify wins the thread! 8)

Ok, if I would have to pick a "typical" effect unit that only does a certain thing, I guess it would have to be nonlinear gainstage of some sort. Umm, wait, technically that's a processor, not an effect? I don't care ;p

I don't really fancy distortion as such, but small doses of nonlinear gain find their way into almost every track on most of the stuff I do. Must have something to do with my age.. I actually prefer muffled, hissing, bass heavy sound to perfectly produced balanced kristal klear (TM) thingies.

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by 3dot... » Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:20 pm

djwack wrote:Zebrify wins the thread! 8)

Ok, if I would have to pick a "typical" effect unit that only does a certain thing, I guess it would have to be nonlinear gainstage of some sort. Umm, wait, technically that's a processor, not an effect? I don't care ;p

I don't really fancy distortion as such, but small doses of nonlinear gain find their way into almost every track on most of the stuff I do. Must have something to do with my age.. I actually prefer muffled, hissing, bass heavy sound to perfectly produced balanced kristal klear (TM) thingies.
...technically you're full of it....
fx processor = process...
nonlinear gain-stage = distortion...
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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by zenke » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:46 am

What is zebrify?

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by The Carpet Cleaner » Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:03 am

I put sidechained compressor everywhere, and not only sidechained by the kick drum, but also some combinaison of synth sidechained by other sounds...

Sometimes I also used a sidechained gate instead of a compressor...

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by nicogrubert » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:50 am

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by josephjobling » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:34 am

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by djwack » Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:37 pm

3dot... wrote:
djwack wrote:Zebrify wins the thread! 8)

Ok, if I would have to pick a "typical" effect unit that only does a certain thing, I guess it would have to be nonlinear gainstage of some sort. Umm, wait, technically that's a processor, not an effect? I don't care ;p

I don't really fancy distortion as such, but small doses of nonlinear gain find their way into almost every track on most of the stuff I do. Must have something to do with my age.. I actually prefer muffled, hissing, bass heavy sound to perfectly produced balanced kristal klear (TM) thingies.
...technically you're full of it....
fx processor = process...
nonlinear gain-stage = distortion...
:lol:
excuse me, but what they taught me in school was:
Effect: an FX processor that has wet/dry, usually used (but not limited to) via Aux sends. Almost always mixes the original signal with the "effected" signal
Processor: an INSERT-effect with usually no wet/dry controls, totally overwriting the original signal

But hell, who cares about these distinctions anymore, it's becoming more difficult every day to say which signal processor is an effect and which is a processor :)

and I know that nonlinear gain stage could be called distortion.. I didn't use the term to sound "snobby", I just wanted to emphasize the distinction between adding a touch of gain and dialing your axe to 11.

but feel free to hate me ;)

And zebrify is a modular synth that takes audio as input.. so you can make audio-based modulations to all effect parameters.. dynamic modulation at it's finest :p

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by 3dot... » Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:55 pm

djwack wrote:
3dot... wrote:
djwack wrote:Zebrify wins the thread! 8)

Ok, if I would have to pick a "typical" effect unit that only does a certain thing, I guess it would have to be nonlinear gainstage of some sort. Umm, wait, technically that's a processor, not an effect? I don't care ;p

I don't really fancy distortion as such, but small doses of nonlinear gain find their way into almost every track on most of the stuff I do. Must have something to do with my age.. I actually prefer muffled, hissing, bass heavy sound to perfectly produced balanced kristal klear (TM) thingies.
...technically you're full of it....
fx processor = process...
nonlinear gain-stage = distortion...
:lol:
excuse me, but what they taught me in school was:
Effect: an FX processor that has wet/dry, usually used (but not limited to) via Aux sends. Almost always mixes the original signal with the "effected" signal
Processor: an INSERT-effect with usually no wet/dry controls, totally overwriting the original signal

But hell, who cares about these distinctions anymore, it's becoming more difficult every day to say which signal processor is an effect and which is a processor :)

and I know that nonlinear gain stage could be called distortion.. I didn't use the term to sound "snobby", I just wanted to emphasize the distinction between adding a touch of gain and dialing your axe to 11.

but feel free to hate me ;)
insert effect = serial fx processing...
aux /dryWet = parallel fx processing...

forgive me if I'm "anal"..
not hating on you ...just correcting you...
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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by McQ714 » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:36 pm

Instant Soup!!!

and Camel Space, Camel Phat, Glitch, Waves MondoMod and Enigma, and various Puremagnetik Live FX racks.

Really been meaning to get the Silverline bundle from D16 and U-he's Zebra/Zebrify and Uhbiks.

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Re: Your Favourite Effect.....?

Post by speak_onion » Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:51 pm

Filters. I can't stop using my MAM Warp 9 . I wish I could route my dick through it while fucking.

The Evolver's filter is also pretty good.

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