Most people I know use a variety of plugins and don't have an undying allegiance to a software brand. I've also observed this weird phenomenon where some people proclaim "I started using Plugin Developer X so now I shelved all Plugin Developer Y!!" Do people really work that way? So strange. So if anyone cares to post a mix, I'll use FG-X on it and you can use whatever limiter you choose, and we'll have some real fun in this joint!Īs an aside. Chris Johnson is creating AU/VST Plugins | PatreonĬhecking in on this thread to see if anyone wanted to take me up on my challenge, but it doesn't seem to be the case.Īgain, FG-X's ability to make a mix louder without adding artifacts or changing the sound of the mix still does not seem to be surpassed by the competition, and I'd be more than happy to prove it.
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Thank you picking up the slack where Fabrice left off. It doesn't have a compressor and it doesn't have a pretty GUI, but the main section (FG-Level) has been dethroned by the competition. And the Enhance control lets you go between purely ‘analog clip’ energy, and these added reinforcements.Īirwindows ADClip7 is for all intents and purposes FG-X 2.0. And you get the softened, analog-style clips to add ‘heat’ and overtones, but you also get a high-mids reinforcement that normally just highlights bright transients that would otherwise be lost to the clipping. The Airwindows version is a completely different, cruder and more direct version of doing the same thing, so when you slam the heck out of ADClip7, you get a deep bass slam that ‘overhangs’ a bit to add weight, and still fits into the clipped output. The algorithms were presumably very sophisticated, which tends to just make the breaking point more obvious when you hit it. Turned out the secret of that one was an elaborate way of massaging clipped-off loudness back into the signal, in a way that was supposed to be transparent but ‘cracked’ into artifacts when pushed too hard. This was the response to a certain other loudness maximizer that launched proclaiming clippers were dead, and which is still promising its version 2 (and some bugfixes) while ADClip has gone far beyond it. The soften control also balances the outputs of two separate energy-fill algorithms, one for bass and one for highs. This is the heart of ADClip (also present in my simpler clippers, not counting One Corner Clip, which is still upcoming). It algorithmically reshapes the edges of your clip, stopping it from getting digital glare and fizz. The soften control manages the way that high frequencies enter and exit the clips. A clipper gives you punchy but LOUD, and tries to retain all the dynamics you’re feeding it, rather than smooth them out for a ‘clean’ sound. A clipper does NOT produce ‘limiter-like unvarying block of sound’, and you shouldn’t try to achieve that. This is a clipper, and no more polite method can ever make things louder than a clipper: you need to either give it a busy and complicated mix to mask the clip artifacts, or use it to snip off non-tonal percussive peaks, at which it excels. In normal mode, boost makes things louder. If you have dense, busy mixes and you want to push their loudness to the max, this is the one you want. May that blight in music history rot in pieces and never come back. Flat percussion, barely audible bass and high frequency distortions. are going to turn down the volume anyway and forced the eventual end of the loudness wars!Īs predicted, 1997-2017 era music (give or take a few years) has its signature sound. I educate them about this and since most of their fans don't buy their music they prefer an bold/beautiful/impactful master vs. Great point.ever since the streaming services started setting nominal levels that are below even my previously tame mixes, musicians are finally "getting" it. I’m sure X2 will be great, but maybe updating the original one doesn’t mean reinventing the wheel. So if FG-X2 adds intersample peaks monitoring, that alone would bring this product to 2019. And, if I need to add another limiter after it just to make sure no peaks will pass, I might as well use a clipper instead. To be honest, I still like the original FG-X, but its lack of a true peak limiter annoys me. I agree, specially because we don’t need insane loudness levels these days.
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