4/4/2023 0 Comments Plogue bidule .975![]() ![]() After that I finish the mix, and then as a last check I turn the wet/dry back up to 1, fine tune the intensity so that it's just shy of sputtering or distorting, set the wet/dry again by ear (almost always ends up between 0.08 and 0.12) and MAYBE tweak the mix a little more to account for any changes, but that isn't really necessary. 5 (which gives me roughly unity) then turn up the intensity until it starts to audibly distort and sputter, then back it off until just before that point and turn the wet/dry down to something around 0. Once I have the important stuff up and balanced pretty well, I'll turn on Pop with the output set to. I'll have Buttercomp set somewhere between 50% and 75% with the output level and wet/dry at their defaults and start the mix that way, bringing in one track at a time. The trick with using Pop on the master buss is that I start with it bypassed. My current master buss chain (not including metering plugins) is now 100% Airwindows:ĬlipOnly (for safety, but I never have to push it hard enough to clip anymore, between what Spiral does and switching to K-14 monitoring)ĭitherbox (almost always NJAD but occasionally Naturalize) I've definitely had Airwindows creep over the last two years, I'd say at least 3/4 of the plugins I use in any given mix these days are Airwindows (and I wish I could afford to give Chris more than the $50/year I'm pledging now because he really deserves it). Thats not a strike against gearslutz, but I do wish that more engineers (in general) would push themselves towards being more open minded about trying new, wild and crazy methods that don't make sense too many of us stick to "what works," because we have to manage our time appropriately enough to make a decent living. Perhaps, GearSlutz is more in the area of engineers/musicians who think more traditionally, as compared to some other forums which I will not mention. I suppose I just wish that more mastering engineers would give the tools more chances, and try things that are extremely "out of the box" thinking. but it may take some experiments to find a perfect value for smoothly cutting extreme lows. I'll check the video on it again, and if he convinces me that its more smooth than something like Waves H-EQ (for high passing) then I'll give it a try. even for Hermepass (for me, all though I haven't really given it a full chance). But, when it comes to dialing in specific things like EQ, its pretty much a no-go. I do find that some of the tools, in their mathematical simplicity and lack of graphical interfaces, can end up with a higher quality sound than some alternatives. I suppose that you and hermetech mostly correct, in that most of his plugins aren't even built for mastering, let alone being used by mastering engineers. I do wonder why he doesn't add Hz values to his EQ plugins, but like Herme said, its probably for a good reason. For now, his list of "to do" is so long that years of work are already laid in front of him. And, Chris will entertain many requests that he has piled up, eventually. I am sure that will happen, in the years to come. Therefore, any VST creator can use the algorithms to make plugins that are more finely tuned towards what they want. The one main thing that I find necessary to point out, and I am sure you are aware, is that many of his plugins are open source. I've been trying out many things and in several cases gone back to my usual go-to plugins, either because of the graphical interface issue or other various reasons. I just think Airwindows could be so much more.I respect that statement. ![]() I would happily pay a decent sum for this if the sound was ironed out and some increased tunability was included. My experience has been that some of his algorithms sound really good with a little bit of weirdness on the fringe that makes them unusable for mastering.Īcceleration is the only one that has found any use in my chain. I kinda wish that he would just focus on a handful of his best algorithms and take them "all the way" to ironed-out, beta tested, functionally GUI'd plugins. Bidule is used by thousands of musicians worldwide Bidulists from the all over the world have gathered on the forums at the Plogue Web site to get their questions about Bidule answered, as well as share their music and Bidule inventions.I respect Chris and have followed his work with interest for over a decade. ![]() The brainchild of Plogue Art et Technologie is a cross-platform application that is gaining recognition world-wide as the new standard in modular music software. ![]()
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