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

Distortion beotch

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

Distortion beotch

+ MF 1 !

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!

Bea a a a a rrrrrrpppppp t t Bea a a a a rrrrrrrppppp t t

BEAT REPEAT!!

I'd probably say Nitro for tha adding of teh spice to my tracks, can't get enough of it right now.

Zebrify wins the thread!

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.

djwack wrote:Zebrify wins the thread!

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...

What is zebrify?

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...

UAD 201
UAD LA2A
Waves C4

Ableton - gate(now you can side chain it)
VST d16 devestor (the best plugin in the world)

3dot... wrote:

djwack wrote:Zebrify wins the thread!

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...

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

djwack wrote:

3dot... wrote:

djwack wrote:Zebrify wins the thread!

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...

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...

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.

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.