Glenn Bucci wrote on Tue, 20 January 2009 09:07 |
bblackwood wrote on Tue, 20 January 2009 08:19 |
Glenn Bucci wrote on Tue, 20 January 2009 07:04 | At the mastering stage, when you run your 2 bus mix through your converters, the gain stages that the hardware has, it does not lay an effect on top of your signal like the plug ins, but on the signal directly.
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Err, are you suggesting these plugs utilize parallel processing? What makes you assume it's an additive process?
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What I meant was when I run a 2 bus mix through hardware gear, it sounds like it's part of the original signal. Through A/B when I compared plug ins vrs hardware, I noticed with every plug in I have heard that it "sounds" like the plug in is on top of the signal, while the hardware sounds like it's part of the original signal. My theory on the difference between plug in and hardware like the UAD 1176 and real 1176 are the following: 1. Your converters that you run your 2 bus signal through adds something to the sound. 2. The signal running through hardware transformers and electronics adds a little something that the plug in lacks. 3. The modeling is not 100% yet, but perhaps 85-90%.
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I'm not a plugin user so I can't really comment, but unless one has heard these plugs, I find it hard to believe you can pass any sort of judgement.
If you've heard it, then my mistake, I was just under the impression no one had these yet.