Jonbouy
jamesyoyo
Good find, Jon. I think it probably puts to rest a bunch of arguments.
Nah, folk will just try to create new arguments...
It was our own DrewFX that put the stair-stepping myth to bed for me quite awhile ago now, but seeing it shown here really brought home the idea that you can't plot a wave of a certain bandwidth without getting the resultant equation exactly right at any point in time.
Karyn also corrected me fairly recently in an excellent post she made in a thread about modelled DSP, when I said digital was cold and stark and she said no, think of it as being 'pure'. A distinction that made a huge difference to me in how I approach the idea of adding 'coloured' signals to a mix. It will save me a fortune in expensive 'modelled' plug-ins as I've really moved away from those things these days, and look to add colour as a seperate process in itself not as a by product of using an ecclectic mix of these kinds of things. I regain control of when, where what kind and how much character I introduce as a result without thinking I have to add the latest marketing snake oil to make magic.
Which shows again there ARE some bright, clued up people around this place it's just a case of sifting the wheat from the chaff.
Well said Jon. I believe Drew and Karyn also set me straight on this as well as a few conversations with bitflipper. I really love those people because even though they bring the attention of science into things, they know how to explain things correctly to where even a dope like me can understand them. :)
On the "cold and stark" comment...this is common here with my older students that come from the days of tape. What THEY didn't understand was, because digital is so pure, it can also be unforgiving which means...a sound that might work in the analog realm with tape saturating or compressing, will not be the same in the digital realm. A sound that might be a bit harsh or brittle where analog can automatically curb this, won't be the case in digital.
So if anything, we just print our sounds a bit differently. An eq can warm something up if need be and with the additional clarity we get using digital, a good eq that low passes just the right way...and you can get similar results along the lines of tape minus the real saturation.
You know, I too was staying away from the modeled analog souding pieces, but the UAD stuff has changed my mind. I think a hybrid of the two (digtal and analog) makes for an awesome team. The fact that UAD has a good handle on "saturation" as opposed to what the others "claim" to be saturation (which is really a form of ugly distortion or a kind of bad clipping sound) is what makes up the real difference. The UAD stuff is so powerful and transparent these days, I wish it was a bit more affordable to people so they could have them in their tool box. They may not be for everyone, but when the right amount of "stuff" is used when using their plugs, it can really make a difference and take a little 'edge' off of the digital sound in a GOOD way. :) Good find on those vids...thanks for sharing brother.
-Danny