I Decided To Master A Track With My Usual Plugins vs My Harrison/SSL Plugins. You Be The Judge.

[László]

Gentlemen, as The Bard said in Twelfth Night, "I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks!"

I pulled things back a little on the Abbey Road Tango track - it's less compressed and more conservatively EQ'd. Some of the splashiness is in the original mix, and I didn't go back and remix it, because I'm too frickin' lazy.

Methinks this master sounds better. If so, I tip my hat to you! I still used the same SSL/Harrison plugins, just maybe did a little better with them.

Abbey Road SSL-Harrison Two

Abbey Road SSL-Harrison Two by Leslie Schefman

leslieschefman.com

 

[FuzzyAce]

Gentlemen, as The Bard said in Twelfth Night, "I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks!"

I pulled things back a little on the Abbey Road Tango track - it's less compressed and more conservatively EQ'd. Some of the splashiness is in the original mix, and I didn't go back and remix it, because I'm too frickin' lazy.

Methinks this master sounds better. If so, I tip my hat to you! I still used the same SSL/Harrison plugins, just maybe did a little better with them.

Abbey Road SSL-Harrison Two

Abbey Road SSL-Harrison Two by Leslie Schefman

leslieschefman.com

I meant to comment last night... the new master sounds great! The brass have a nice punch to them.

 

[László]

I meant to comment last night... the new master sounds great! The brass have a nice punch to them.

Thanks! I got a little carried away with the first attempt at the master with the new plugins, so your input was helpful as can be. The new one is a better example of what they're capable of.

I'm seriously considering whether to ditch a whole bunch of plugins and simply concentrate on the SSL and Harrison stuff, plus a few other things I actually use a lot, like UA's LA-2A, their Distressor,, a few other compressors and EQs that actually have a little vibe, etc., and spend my time concentrating on the music instead of the tools.

I have a TON of plugins I haven't used in years, and some I've never found useful at all. Yet I keep installing them on new computers! I got a nicely equipped Mac Studio a year ago, and loaded it up with plugins as though I still used them.

It can be paralysis by analysis. I might return 'virtually' to days of yore when I had 10 or 12 quality hardware synths and samplers, a handful of high end hardware processors I'd commit to tape, actual tape machines, and a 64 input hardware console. Simpler times, but sometimes that's a good thing.

I have the option of just not including stuff in Plugin Manager in Logic, but in the other DAWs I sometimes use, the full list comes up and I have to sift through a long list to find something I want to use.