Nomad Factory Motown Retro Bundle v1.2 No-Brainer

The Motown Retro Bundle contains plug-ins that recreates the warm sound qualities of legendary analog hardware passive equalizers used by Motown engineers. Berry Gordy, Jr eat your heart out. http://www.audiomidi.com/...-Brainer-P16967C0.aspx

It's hard to pass up a twenty-dollar anything, but a 7-band fixed filter bank? I can't imagine what anyone would need this for. Maybe in hopes of sounding like the Funk Brothers, I guess. I'll wait until the Abbey Road plugins are $20, so then I can sound like the Beatles.

http://highprofileaudio.com/MotownEQ's.jpg There they are back in the day. I'm not sure why that fella is playing a cash register.

anyone try it out- how's it sound/ function?

You probably did, but...

Did you get in touch w/ Nomad Factory directly? I had to once and the reply came in pretty quickly (within a few hours I think).

When you get it authorized and working, let me know what the filters are set to, so I can make it into a Sonitus EQ preset. Maybe I could then sell it! Don't laugh - Toontracks is getting away with it.

bitflipper


When you get it authorized and working, let me know what the filters are set to, so I can make it into a Sonitus EQ preset. Maybe I could then sell it! Don't laugh - Toontracks is getting away with it.

Does Nomad advertise it as having some kind of "mojo" (saturation, harmonics, etc) or is it really just a filter bank with x fixed bands? If that's the case, man, even $20 is a rip-off. 


Nevermind, here it is:

• 7-band equalizer with, Gain and Proportional Q.
• 50 Hz, 130 Hz, 320 Hz, 800 Hz, 2 kHz, 5 kHz and 12.5 kHz.
• Boost / Cut up to 8dB per band

Like in the original hardware units, we have recreated the proportional Q which means that there is no adjustable Q bandwidth : small boost/cuts have a very broad Q and greater boost/cuts have a narrower one. 


So basically, it's like using any old EQ and just not taking full advantage of it.

My guess is that by limiting the engineers' options Motown was able to establish a high level of consistency in their products. That, plus using the same musicians, producers and mastering engineers for every recording, is probably why all Motown records sound alike. And it makes sense - why mess with a successful formula?

The question is: are those standards still acceptable today? Listen to Seal's most excellent contemporary recording of some favorite soul standards. The songs are just as compelling, but the sound is definitely NOT Motown - it's crisp and clean and subtle.

Plus I had to do a system restore to at least get back the NF plugs that actually work

If it's any consolation Gaff, ol pal.  I've been down that road twice myownself.  Used up all my installs just trying to get a download.  Turns out both times it was my own fault:-)  Different reasons both times.  Nomad put a fresh set of installs (all 4).  I bet they get you straightened out too. 

I've had nothing but good luck and good plugs from Nomad...Hope you get it straightened out. I'd go for the No- Brainer - but I'm tired of just having too much stuff to sift through, gonna pass on this ( not because I wouldn't use it ) I happen to like simpler eq plugs with gentle slopes on busses and mastering chains, but I'm waiting on Bootsie Baxter EQ to take of that for me - he's announced that it'll be out this week.

That don't-tell clause is pretty common. If you've ever gotten a support email from Cakewalk it contains the same warning.

It's a stupid move, IMO, because it only encourages unsupported "x support sucks" types of commentary.

Sorry it didn't work out as expected.

The good news is that you can still do the exact same thing with any old 7 bands of EQ. ;)

yorolpal


Even I'm passing on this one. Alert the media!

Do you need a loan myolpal?

Bapu, you're being too hard on yourself. Many of your posts are not total BS. That, in fact, is hard to accomplish. Totality, that is. BS comes easy.