<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Well I just followed Don's links and ended up up here...<div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://youtu.be/63nKuxQCdJc"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/63nKuxQCdJc" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:168px;" width="300" height="168" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="maxresdefault.jpeg" src="cid:91DE8601-6AAE-419D-978C-87DC50471A63"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/63nKuxQCdJc" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Make Mixes Brighter, not Harsher: Aphex Exciter Tutorial</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/63nKuxQCdJc" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">youtu.be</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div><br></div><div>after listening to an interview with the engineer of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" record where he explained how he used the hardware as a "send" for the mixdown process.</div><div><br></div><div>Today I had a mix where I thought it might be interesting to try it out... it seems thanks to something called Black Friday the plugin has been discounted heavily, so I bought it and installed it on a parallel bus to the main mix.</div><div>I found if I put the entire drum mix through it, it was way too harsh and grating on the top end (even to my tired old ears) but it was quite nice just on the kick and snare and hats, in a low level send.</div><div>There's essentially just one knob for the process, and that's just a mix knob, so as a send effect there's really no controls other than IN and OUT levels, so it ain't rocket science. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 20 Nov 2024, at 8:00 PM, Ingo Debus via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 20.11.2024 um 00:13 schrieb Adam (synthDIY) <<a href="mailto:synthdiy@adambaby.com">synthdiy@adambaby.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I'm listening to the youtube A/B tests and thinking this is pretty subtle…</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Can someone post a link to such an A/B test please? Really curious.</div><div><br></div><div>Recently I’ve been listening to some A/B tests (of other gear) and I could not tell any difference at all. For instance this one:</div><div><a href="https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/how-using-a-flat-mic-with-eq-can-improve-your-mix">https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/how-using-a-flat-mic-with-eq-can-improve-your-mix</a></div><div><br></div><div>I can’t tell any difference between the two microphones used. Is it me or is it an emperor’s new clothes thing?</div><div><br></div><div>Ingo</div></div>________________________________________________________<br>This is the Synth-diy mailing list<br>Submit email to: Synth-diy@synth-diy.org<br>View archive at: https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/<br>Check your settings at: https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy<br>Selling or trading? Use marketplace@synth-diy.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>