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Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
Hi folks.
I sent Steven an email, but I assume he's pretty busy, and don't want to bug him too much....so I'll waste your time instead. I like to try a mix with the Massey Tape Head on the master fader (just to try), but I notice that it can distort quite easily when sending full mixes (peaking at about -6fB) into it. I need to add a Trim plug before and lower it to -12dB... is there another way of adding 'light' tape sat on the master fader? or perhaps another cheap/free plug that may do the trick? thanks!
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
Although I love Steve's plugins, I don't find this plugin to be subtle enough for 2 buss. Unless you want a drastic sound.
There are plenty of other options that are quite subtle. Although I don't use any of them. Cranesong makes one. McDSP makes one. URS makes one. Digidesign has one too.
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
yup!
That's exactly it! It's not subtle enough for the mix bus...I'll have a look at the suggestions you gave. thanks!
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
in alliance with what Produceher said, noting my own personal experience.. I use Steven's Tape Head on Bass, sometimes guitars, or acoustic Piano... it's not all that subtle, got a real "Carve / Boost" thing in the Highs, that make it not the best choice for Vocals, 2 Mixes, or Drum Busses -
I use it on "Individual things" to give those things character, and when I'm "Fishing" in the Plugin menu, for some "Character", I comes up often, and "Stay's" about 1/2 the time. We discussed this pretty heavily, in a different thread a while back, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK IT OUT HERE I personally (And I made little a video clip of my workflow in that thread), use a mix of PSP Vintage Warmer, and McDsp AC2 on my master bus.
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
I prefer tape head on individual tracks instead of the mix buss.
However, I will occasionally use TH on a drum or guitar bus. |
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
I do enjoy vintage warmer on the mix buss.
It's a little more tweakable than tape head. |
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
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It's great on distorting a vocal as Sansamp can be too much. What it's amazing on is a too bright guitar solo. It seems to carve perfectly into a lower freq.
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
Hmm yeah Kenny, it's one of my "Bass Go-To's" - I'm gonna have to play with this one on Guitars some more, I can "Hear" that "Carve thing" helping the offensive nature of some guitar tracks, by your description, and knowing what the plugin does.
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
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You mean you've never tried the "every single plugin on every single channel" method of mixing?
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Re: Massey Tape-Head on mix bus?
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That is hilarious.. Made me laugh. Almost spit my coffee out.. Too funny. |
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