Plugin reviews - Softube

[Jay Pace]

excellent stuff barry

On the EQ.... I'm a bit of a pleb, and tend to just use waves REQ. But truth be told I wouldn't have a clue what the other one's offered, beyond a zippy GUI

Do they really make that much difference? How do you "hear" the difference - what quality are they adding?

I've tried to limit plugins, for fear of "death by plugins" syndrome (vast collection of tools, no idea about how to use any of them, let alone why and when)

Cheers dud

[rhythmtech]

excellent stuff barry

On the EQ.... I'm a bit of a pleb, and tend to just use waves REQ. But truth be told I wouldn't have a clue what the other one's offered, beyond a zippy GUI

Do they really make that much difference? How do you "hear" the difference - what quality are they adding?

I've tried to limit plugins, for fear of "death by plugins" syndrome (vast collection of tools, no idea about how to use any of them, let alone why and when)

Cheers dud

jay, theres not going to be a huge differance between waves and this eq. especially not in the passive or active versions as it just really down to the eq curves employed. obviously there is some sonic differances due to the hardware modelling aspect.

the real differance you'd hear is with the focusing eq. this is a way of eqing i'd not used before and mixed with the saturation it can really fatten up the weakest of sounds.

[rhythmtech]

heres a track ive recently mixed with softube stuff (ok its not techno but its all ive mixed with this lot so far)

Download doubt master v2.mp3 from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

snare, toms and drum bus use FET (listen to the attack on the snare and toms!!)

overheads and room mics use CL1B (stunning on overheads!)

bass uses CL1B

guitars use FET

synths got a mix of both - CL1B for the slower pad stuff and FET for the spikey arpeggiated ones.

vox use a mix of FET and CL1B - lead uses CL1B to limit the peaks followed by FET for shaping, bk vox use Cl1b to smooth them out and set them away from the lead.

passive/active eq used on all tracks for shaping with a surgical eq after.

master uses CL1B

i personally think the CL1B is the most open and analog sounding software compressor ive used to date. simply gorgeous!