Black Friday deals

[meloco_go]

Did you find anything interesting?
The best I've seen is 70% off Black Rooster Audio plugins.

[upstairs]

I get 100% off when I don't buy anything.

...but if it's 70% off, does that mean I'll only save 30%? One of life's greatest questions.

[Rev. Juda$ Sleaze]

Finally got the full version of Kontakt at 50% off.

With discount and voucher I got Brainworx bx_digital V3 for $19. Had my eye on that for a couple of years, so that was nice.

Not in the market for much this year though... don't really need it!

[nobby]

Sound Toys has a sale. All their stuff for $149 and separately on sale.

I already have their Echo boy, Decapitator, Micro shift, Tremolator and Little Alterboy all of which I got on sale, a la carte, and their other plugs don't look like things I'd wind up using, so I'll pass.

https://www.soundtoys.com/product/acade ... 9cYMsFOwF4

[Toonman]

I already upgraded all my iZotope stuff. Pretty happy there.
Eventide has a bunch of specials too. I might check out a thing or two there.
I'll wee what else I can spot these days. Not that I'll be able to get everything I put my eye on... I wish!

[Rev. Juda$ Sleaze]

Just saw that Vienna Ensemble Pro 6 is at 60% off. That would be a great bargain for anyone doing orchestral mock-ups.

[Rev. Juda$ Sleaze]

Softube Tape is $34.

I got it a while ago and haven't used Slate VTM since.

[meloco_go]

DevilLoc Deluxe is $29, I use regular DevilLoc a lot, so will probably grab this.

[nobby]

DevilLoc Deluxe is $29, I use regular DevilLoc a lot, so will probably grab this.

Is there something that it does specifically that you can't get from other fx or is it just a faster way for you to work?

I checked out a video but I don't have their raw tracks to use for comparison with fx I already have. I have had problems with trial versions of plugs in the past so I try to avoid them.

[meloco_go]

Is there something that it does specifically that you can't get from other fx or is it just a faster way for you to work?

Dunno, probably the latter. Typically I use it on vocals and drums when they're kind of bland. Always at the lowest settings, and often just blending in a tiny bit of effect.
I guess I can mix and match what it does with other plugins.
Strangely I never got any mileage out of Little Radiator. Maybe it's because the interface of DevilLoc is red and I like the word Devil

[weedywet]

DevilLoc is great when you want something to be blatantly smashed sounding.
I wouldn’t use it for ‘subtle’ compression.
It’s intentionally very NOTICEABLE.

Although not SUPER inexpensive, the Sound Radix stuff is in sale. And I find their Pi phase alignment plug in almost lifesaving sometimes on other people’s multi mic drum recordings I have to mix.

[meloco_go]

DevilLoc is great when you want something to be blatantly smashed sounding.
I wouldn’t use it for ‘subtle’ compression.
It’s intentionally very NOTICEABLE.

I agree, but I always just blend in a little of the effect with the dry sound. That way it helps to push certain things to the front of the mix.

[Rev. Juda$ Sleaze]

LSR have 40% off.

I love the API compressor, and the dbx de-esser is my go-to.

https://www.lsraudio.com

[nobby]

Although not SUPER inexpensive, the Sound Radix stuff is in sale. And I find their Pi phase alignment plug in almost lifesaving sometimes on other people’s multi mic drum recordings I have to mix.

Thanks for the tip!

Not super inexpensive, but if I were paid minimum wage for every hour I spent toiling over out of phase drums tracks...

The "best" one was where I flipped the phase on something and all this bottom end came in, so, I thought, that's it then. Then I put the master bus into mono and the drums disappeared almost entirely

It seems like about a year ago I dropped in on a discussion in which engineers were discussing doing this manually and it sounded like a rabbit hole to hell...

Watched a demo on youtube and there didn't seem to be much difference, than the guy says "These tracks were professionally recorded in a good studio but in other cases..."

Then I tried it on tracks I had to work on and

Total game changer! If there were a holy grail of plugins, I'd nominate this one.

[nobby]

I'm a bit surprised that Auto Align has been around for over 5 years -- totally under my radar!