Bootsy strikes again - ThrillseekerLA

There's no announcement as yet but I've just noticed the download is up...

It's a levelling amp style comp. Read about it here;

http://varietyofsound.wor...he-short-story-behind/

Download Page;

http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/

I'm off to play, enjoy.

Bootsy puts a lot of commercial developers to shame

First impressions, I've only used it so far on a couple of projects where I have the UAD LA2A or 1176 comps already in place on sub-mixes. 

It was very easy to get this into the same ball-park as what was there and get pleasing comparable results.  The attack phase can be set to be much faster than either of UAD plugs mentioned, insanely fast set at the shortest speed.

One of the drawbacks I'd say of some of Bootsy's previous plug-ins is that I've had to ramp the gain up to get into the sweet spots of their operation and back down again after processing.  This one has a -18dbfs switch to bring the signal path to a more convineint mixing level but there is also plenty of range on the input and output knobs here.  So no criticisms there on this one.  Not that it's a problem on the other ones either once you get used to bringing the signal path up to pretty much unity to get the best out of them.

It's hard to to talk about the 'stateful saturation' and 'intermodulation' distortion handling that is going on as while as I said it was easy to get into the same ballpark as the UAD plugs quickly although there is a noticeable difference particularly when mixing compound material in a sub-mix where you can clearly hear the living, breathing algorithms doing their stuff as the prominence of different sounds alters during playback and is clearly different to the plug-ins I replaced for this outing although the compression characteristics I dialled in are pretty much worked like for like.

That will take some getting used to and I don't want to get over-enthusiastic as I'm obviously still suffering from pink cloud syndrome from playing with a new toy.  But doing my best to stay objective I'd say there is more of an alive, breathing characteristic happening to the sound due to the 'statefulness' as claimed in this plugs design concept.

Will it be a goto?

I think this is going to be more like a piece of analogue gear in that it is going to take awhile to get to know intimately because the 'statefulness' is most definitely a 'new' behaviour for me to take into consideration, but it certainly covers a wide range from gentle levelling to completely overdriven smack down.  And like I said it didn't take me long to fit it into a couple already existing roles.

All of Bootsy's plug's appeal to me because they are not strictly designed to emulate specific hardware, but they are designed with great dedication and care to work well in the digital domain.  And this one does that for sure and is certain to get plenty of use in any ITB mixer's toolchest.

And of course with all the VOS plug-ins it won't have cost you a penny.

Thanks Jon!

Free. Pfffft. What's the point?

I mean. I can't but it, right?

Jonbouy

bapu


I mean. I can't but it, right?

You can't 'but' it no

LMAO!


I'm such a dork on the keybored.

bapu

Jonbouy

Donating for freeware is a much nicer thing than paying 100 bucks for something that is worthless, no? 

From that logic can I conclude that useless freeware is still worth it?
(or is there a Bouy tax added for that?)

No, it means that there's likely plenty of unused $100 bargains among your current collection.

Freeware you can choose to donate something if you enjoy the product.

(This is a second consultation and incurs a chargeable fee, which of course is taxable.)

Jonbouy

bapu

Jonbouy

Donating for freeware is a much nicer thing than paying 100 bucks for something that is worthless, no? 

From that logic can I conclude that useless freeware is still worth it?
(or is there a Bouy tax added for that?)

No, it means that there's likely plenty of unused $100 bargains among your current collection.

Freeware you can choose to donate something if you enjoy the product.

(This is a second consultation and incurs a chargeable fee, which of course is taxable.)

The cheque is in the 'post'.