silvercn
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Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
Are there any plug ins out there that are designed for acoustic guitar processing or that lend themselves to this?
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 07:29:55
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EQ is helpful. Compression can work wonders. Sometimes I'll add just a bit of reverb. best regards, mike
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 08:19:25
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 19:37:11
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silvercn
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 20:48:21
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Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for to try!!! Since I have never downloaded Waves (and good now that it does not require Ilok) - do I have to have anything else on my system first ---- I am not sure what they are referring to as "Native" for the download
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 21:39:29
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Native just means it's for the PC and not the MAC. And now they are selling individual plugins from the various Signature Series. Go to www.wavesuniverse.com and sign up and then check their price for the Maserati Acoustic Guitar...you will be very pleasantly surprised.
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silvercn
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 21:49:57
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Thank you for this info ---- nice; did not know about the universe..
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 22:05:20
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PSP Warmer has a nice acoustic guitar preset, but it's really just a compressor? One of many I have. In looking at the plug above, it does what many do, which is allow you to control other functions you may already have, compression, excitation, EQ, limitting, etc... It's just rolled in to a single "additional" plug-in. I'm not saying anything at all against what has been recommended to you above. What I am saying, is that someone could market a piano plug that does the same things. Or one for the banjo, violin, etc... From a psycho-acoustic perspective, on the front end, the instruments are all unique, "like food?" on the back end when it comes out? They are all treated using the same tools, and come out looking pretty much the same "like food?" Compression, limitting, MB Compression, excitation, Mid-side, EQ, delay and all variations there of Flange, chorus, echo, reverb (which is also really just a type of delay) distortion, phase, inflation, harmonics, etc... We all have these tools in one form or another? What's good is to understand what makes this guitar plug work "under the hood?" Because it doesn't do anything magic that what I've described above does, I promise you. i.e., a special plug-in for the Oboe may exist? But it does nothing special outside of what I described.
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 22:12:29
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use your imagination.... EQ, compression, and reverb are the givens that will work well to improve the sound of an acoustic guitar. I use them all the time. other things can be used as well....delays, and tape simulators also work well, to give a unique sound. The key with most plugs and FX is to have them so that the average person can not tell they are there..... they enhance the sound, but don't effect it so much as to be obvious. another thing I like to do with acoustic which really works well is to simply layer the guitar. record it exactly the same onto several tracks with a different take each time. play it as close to exact as possible. One track is up front the others are panned and lower so they are almost not audible..... another option is pan hard R & L leaving both tracks up at the same level..... then use other tracks lower and closer to center..... experiment..... see what sounds best..... you can use FX on the tracks that you are layering as well..... it really, really sounds good when done right..... so fat and full, with a nice stereo spread..... play around with it.
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bandontherun19
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Re:Any plug ins designed for acoustic guitar
2012/03/23 23:05:13
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In other words? What I said, but add "double tracking and comping and stereo tools?" :-) I agree, there is no "magic bullet?" You have to listen to people and sounds that you like, and then try "all of the above..." To get the best sound you can? It may sound like what you were going for? Or it may sound better... Another POWERFUL tool? Is to take a track, with the instrument, i.e., "Acoustic Guitar?" That you think is "perfect." It doesn't need to be the same song? Just a good reference... And put that in on an audio track. Then solo that track, "listen to the acoustic." Then mute it, now play your track, "listen to the acoustic..." A/B, A/B, A/B, you will be supprized at how using this technique, and "all of the above" Can get you so close to your goal that you can't fit a playing card between the two of you...
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