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Recommendations on Plug ins / preamps for digi002
Quick Background - i recorded some "demos" for my band in our practice
space on a 16track DAW - Some great gigs and a few lucky breaks laters they were picked up for independent release. Thats the good news. The bad news is I am primarily a musician with little technical background in recording and engineering. But several pricey attempts at working w/ established engineers and producers have not lived up to expectations, so everyone agrees that i should begin working on the followup. Anyway, we were able to purchase a dual processor G4, Protools digi002, some mediocre preamps and 2 condensor mics. But as people are expecting slightly higher production quality on 2nd release, i am running into a few problems so far. 1 - The stock plug-inns on 002 - is it just me or do they sound like ****? I am not crazy about the compression, the EQ sounds a bit harsh to me, and the reverb especially makes everything sound like a Don Henley record from 1985 (...and thats a bad thing) - My one good preamp is a Joe Meek VC1Q and i have an RNC - i used to run every channel through those to do EQ and compression and rerecord them when i was on a Roland 1680, but there has to be an easier way now that i am on protools. My question is - are there good plug ins for reverb, compression, and EQ? Or do plug-ins in general sound like **** compared to the outboard gear they were desinged to emulate? We can't really break the bank, but we have about 2500 more for a recording budget. Our sound is basically like the Shins - we like lush, layered production, bright and clean guitars, up front, melodic vocals. I tend to absolutely obliterate the overhead mics of the drums w/ compression so it sounds like Albini / Flaming Lips drums. I also compress the vocals quite a bit. Any good leads? Also - I need several channels of good preamp - i have heard good things about Sytek - any other suggestions for pres under $1,000? They don't have to be super clean - we love the Velvet Underground so anything that would give it a little "vintage flavor" would be nice - so far my protools recordings (mostly through a Digimax LT) have sounded a little too clean for our tastes. So, again - recommendations for Plug ins and Preamps are appreciated. Thanks so much for your help! |
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