No Brainer Deal

Just thought I would pass this on....

You can get the Nomad Factory British Bundle at 
Audio Midi right now for $20....

http://www.audiomidi.com/dp/B0085PTCDS

I bought it this morning. Still waiting on receiving the serial no. and a link to DL it.

I like bargains. 

I just ordered it too. 

You're right Brian, ..... do I really NEED another compressor??!!?? 

$20 is a cheap way of finding out if I like Nomad products. At least that what I'm telling myself!!!  LOL!!

Yep... the AudioMidi "No Brainer" deals require little to no thought...

ggg

I've read the same thing....

We shall see!!!

Me too. Mine came a little while and I had to try it out. It sure looks nice. I will need time to know if it is good sounding .

Jeff you have all the Nomad plugins in the file but you only install the one or ones you bought. That will be the one or ones that can be authorized. 

In this case its the British Bundle it should be the only plugin you install.

I also have other Nomad plugins and yes I ran the installer and just selected the British Bundle to install. When that is done it automatically start the authorization process. That is a trip though. LOL

Thanks John for your help and support. Much appreciated. All done and working fine now. I had just forgot that you do have to run the installer each time and select the plugin you are after and it installs etc. Yes the Authorising procedure is a little weird but at least you can store the Auth file away and not have to do it again if you rebuild or reformat etc.

tunekicker interesting what you say. My first impressions running it over a great reference track (Steely Dan) is that it actually sounds excellent and quite transparent in its own way too. What I like about Steely Dan so much is that the mix is so precise and amazing even the slightest degradation I find becomes glaringly obvious to me anyway.

Not hearing the noise you are talking of either. Maybe try taking it out of Vintage mode. Often when you do this you lose the very coloured sound (and other possible noisy things) and it tends to go back to a more normal transparent sound.

I don't compress heavily either. In mastering mode I tend to get the compressor to only do -2 to -3dB of gain reduction. I usually set the attack fairly slow to let transients through. When I set up the Nomad like this I found it sounded very nice.

Hey John there are a few controls on there I am not exactly sure what they do yet. I think some time in the manual might be a good thing. The front panel is pretty busy.

The only thing that concerns me a little is that the slow attack setting is still 1ms which to my mind is pretty fast. I have access to a SMART C2 compressor (hardware) and when I use it I find I often set the attack to 10ms or even 30ms to get the right sound I am after. But I will experiment with this though on the Nomad.

As I mentioned below the attack setting is for the limiter only, not the compressor. Seems the compressor attack is basically not adjustable. It sounds good to me though so it must be reasonable.

Hey let us know how each of these sound and compare to the Pro Channel's compressors and limiter. $20 you can't go wrong if it gives you something different, but good at the same time. So how long has this deal been going on?

I bought them and my impression is the compressor is nice for blending at light settings. It has some character settings that I may use on some material as well. 

I think the eq has some real potential. Especially at this price and a little higher. But if you have expanded and a few modules, the $199 that I've seen these go for in the past would have left me with buyer's remorse. I'm still getting used to them right now though, so maybe I should hold that statement for a bit.

Here is some info for tunekicker. I ran some noise tests with an audio file with silence and cranked up the volume after the plugin and I could not detect a thing with the plugin either ON or OFF. It does not introduce any noise what so ever from what I can tell. I boosted up the gain massively after the plugin with it on and still no noise. Nothing, total silence either ON or OFF.

This is one of the great things about analog gear being modeled digitally. The digital version is totally silent compared to its analog counterparts. NO noise! Only that great analog sound.

I am liking it for sure. Even with my slow attack concerns it does not seem to be digging into transients unnecessarily. It could be that it is slower than say the SMART C2 for example even at the same setting of 1ms. When the C2 is on 1ms it grabs the music bigtime and jumps all over it. Way too much for me. The only way I can get the C2 to relax is by slowing it down. But the Nomad seems to be more that way naturally.

Ok I am wrong about the attack time now. Sorry about that. It is the attack time for the limiter only. I don't use the limiter and I recommend it is turned off. (This plugin sounds better with the limiter off, limiter seems to jump all over the music too much) Seems there is no adjustable attack time for the compressor. I would be interested to know what it might be though. Judging by the fact the transients are still getting through real nice I would say it is reasonably slow.

I have done some digging and found the specs for the original Neve 2254 compressor to which this thing is based on and the specs say the attack time is 5ms which sounds about right actually.

Sure wish I had a 'No deal' brain.
Got it too. 

kinda mad about this now lol. I bought the GSi Tape Delay with my last $20 about 12 hours before this was announced. This is a great no brainer