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Old 10-25-2018, 10:23 AM   #103
s wave
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Join Date: Sep 2018
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Default When you don't have Plugin that you want....

Lets re-look at a great quote

"The Enemy of Art is the absence of Limitations" - Orson Welles

To me this is a deep deep quote. Some analogies: would a 'rich' artist paint with peanut butter and dirt? Probably not! but a poor artist probably would... SO the Rich artist will never know the incredible things that poor artist found while painting with peanut butter and dirt. GOOD LESSON IMO. If you don't have a Melodyne or Audition or Spectral Wave editor NO Problem. Use your creativity. What if run this sound through this free synth, through a speaker (yea its a beat up free speaker (so why not rip the cone with a knife and etc.) and some how try to figure out how to manage a pitch problem that no one has ever come up with? I would rather hear that than something off of autotune. Is a guitar note off pitch? Tune the guitar. try again. You can't get a vocal clip into the right pitch or tone? Figure out WHY it does not sound right. Run it through 'SONIC VISUALZER' yes its free and works great. and put it in pitch through Reaper or Audacity or other way.

Einstein said YOU CAN FIND ANY ANSWER by a correctly constructed question. And he went on to say it is so simple. When the question is then correctly analyzed you will find the answer in the question you constructed. Almost too easy huh? IMO the key is 'CORRECTLY CONSTRUCTED QUESTION' that is where the work is... What is the purpose in the first place? Is it poor me ... if I only had Melodyne and $1000 pc then I could make money or be a star. OR is it to come up with music that all modern programs CAN NOT DO. No amount money can buy it. Its your experience your knowledge.

A Neumann mic can not do what a $3 sony mic can do? It never will. (It can't even come close) I have seen people go right by the sweet spot on a guitar. I have seen people go right by a perfect mic for recording an artist. All that was needed was that the mic should have been 7" from vocalist not 6". And it should of had a 6 db bump at 5k hz and a high pass filter set at 252 hertz.
They probably will never see it. They say this mic sucx and toss it.

A car might run bad with the timing just 1 or 2 degrees off. In fact by not having a timing gun or the like. You can find out the place where your car will run better than at factory specs. It is a fine small 'sweet spot'.

Music is similar. Put a speaker and mic in a tile box and you analog REVERB. That is cool. (Adjustable too!)

I recently tried to get some quasi low-fi recording on a vocal. I was trying to sample a small vocal clip at small bit rate. I found an open source program... after a simple 10 sec mod and poof had it!! 1.1 and 1.3 bits sounded wrong. Only at the rate of 1.2 bit it sounded good. Took a while and I went by it many many times but when I heard the correct rate I knew I found what I was looking for.

At one point I was interested at how the JS OZZIFIER plug in worked. I heard something special in that plugin. For my vocal it was a bit over the top (over ozzified) and a tad off on the harmonics I wanted. I just recorded the voice with JS OZZIFIER. Then put it on a spectral analyzer (SONIC VISUALIZER) and got to see what the Plugin was doing to the voice. BINGO it was EQing (adding decibels) to certain harmonic or melodic bands of the frequency... increasing overtone harmonizing so-to-speak. I did not have Melodyne or AutoTune. SO... I manually played around with an EQ I liked, notched it and made my own sound. I am so glad I did not have Adobe Audition or program like that. What I learned from that experience was indispensable to me!

In fact I just had too use a minimal band or 2 db increase and a band or 2 decrease; much less than what the ozzifier plugin used. Great posts above. keep on inspiring... s wave
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