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What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
Given how many there are, I thought it might be interesting for those who haven't fully explored them yet to get some perspectives on which ones get used most often in your projects.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 10:51:18
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I use the chorus one all the time. It's simply the best chorus plugin I have.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 10:56:23
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The Oil-Can Echo unit is really old school. And the Stereo Delay unit is really useful and quick. Finally, I don't know if it comes w/ the Blue-Tubes pack (I've got all the packages) is the Legends amp sim, which can be really good for putting an edge on vocals etc. w/ some of the clean settings. I'm using Bit filter for that these days, but Legends certainly can do the job. And it works on guitars, too!
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 11:17:45
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love the oil can and the chorus... is there an echo in here?
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 12:05:48
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I confess I have never delved into them. :o(
I use FabFilter stuff and ProChannel. Is there a BT module I really, really MUST try?
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 12:12:39
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Is there a BT module I really, really MUST try?
That's the purpose of this thread  Sounds like the Chorus and Oil Can Echo are gaining traction...
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 12:15:45
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 14:06:03
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Another vote for the Chorus. I also use the Imager on occasion to narrow stereo tracks (usually synths), and behind that would be the Delay, Phaser, Oil Can and Blue Verb. For some reason I never seem to use the EQ or Compression plugins. Perhaps I need to experiment more....
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 14:16:40
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Hate to sound like a broken record but oil can and the chorus, although Multiply from the kvr challenge is creeping up on it. I also like the stereo image plug.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 14:46:15
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I also like the chorus.
The FA770 is a nice Fairchild style compressor, which I have set up as a PC effects chain.
I also like the PEQ2B Pultec emulation, and the PEQ5B, which is a little like a Pulteq on steroids.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 14:49:29
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Delay and Verb here. I forget the names because the names are terribly unremarkable, but that Delay... man I'm surprised how little futzing I have to do with it. Switch the note length, kill or change the center channel, and maybe a lo-cut and BAM.
Verb too. There's a sweet spot between Perfect Space and the Sonitus Verb...I used to use RVerb all the time...but this one is coming up fast. I tend to just want a quick-using verb where I can either get my vocal plate or instead a longer, darker verb and this one can do both pretty well.
Haven't dug into the rest too much yet. The spatializer (whatever it's called, the stereo widener one) I'm starting to get into for my Master bus fx-chain.
The only complaint (aside from the names, but I forgive them that) I have is that they use that totally lame retro hardware UI look, with knobs. Knobs and knobs and knobs. With a mouse a knob is the worst possible UI metaphor, a touch-screen too.
That aside so far all of the plugins in that suite are pretty great. There's a bit too much overlap but they're quite good.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/05 16:56:32
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Yeah they don't look the best.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/06 02:26:26
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I like their reverb better than breverb, so I guess that makes it my default choice.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/06 03:04:23
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I also really like the Chorus. And the Delay. Oil can is something to look into. It has.......that something!
I like the compressors. They have a sound unto themselves. I don't have experience with high quality hardware so I can judge these plugs vs the real thing. But I can say they have a good sound to them that I like.
Another one of their plugs that deserves a look is Echos.
All in all these are very good plugs. I have the whole bunch.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/06 06:02:24
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Brickwall, Stereo Widener and Blueverb are my favorites from the lot.
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/06 09:40:47
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Re: What Are Your Top Three Favorite Blue Tubes Plug-Ins?
2014/09/06 13:23:02
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They won't work in X2 so I can't say.
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