Basically i am getting more and more into my music production now and have got my head down and are slowly learning about eq, compression,limiting etc…
so what i want to know is what vsts do you alway grab and for what reason??
im into my electro house and breakbeats etc…so if anybody can point me in the right direction for vsts around this genre would be wicked?
also i want a compressor for an all round use ive saved up abit of cash and want to blow it on a good compressor that i can widely use over my productions??
If I had my time again I would buy far fewer vsts.
But the ones I would have are:
PSP Xenon - The limiter in Ableton is a bit crap, this one is awesome.
Fabfilter Pro Q - My go to eq
PSP Vintage warmer - for warmth
Ohm force Ohmicide - for distortion
Dada life Sausage Fatner - for fatness.
I use the Ableton compressor 90% of the time, I think it is very good. I do have the Fabfilter Pro C and the PSP Master comp - I really like both but the Ableton one does the job fine, so just gets uses the most. I use the Pro C for NY compression and the PSP Master comp on the master, but I use the Ableton on channels and on mix busses.
Since you’re into Electro and breakbeats, you should consider NI Massive. Think most of the producers in this genre are using it for it’s versatility and fat sounds.
But you can always use something entirely different to distinguish yourself from the masses.
I can live without all my VST’s just fine. What I really can’t do without is food & drinks. Especially beer :w00t:
Productions wise I tend to use Sylenth1 quite a lot. For creating basslines, bass leads & fills like risers, downers, etc.
And the spectrum analyzer from Ableton. You need to keep track of the frequencies of all sounds!
I’m not a huge fan of the way ableton’s EQ Eight does shelving EQ’s. It starts out gradual and the more you increase the Q it just raises it towards the end.
For example. say I want a shelf eq of +1 db for the sub bass. I try to shelf it starting a like 80 Hz however it only starts increasing once its down to like 60 and then the slope gets steeper and steeper. I dont know if you know what I mean exactly.
I like how logic’s EQ has a shelf mode where you can set it at say 80 Hz, +1 db, and then its a consistent +1 db from 80Hz all the way to 0 Hz.
You need to meddle with the Q, the higher the Q the faster it shelves it at the mark you want, the lower the Q and the slower it reaches the actual deduction/addition.
However, if you want a REALLY good EQ try FabFilter Pro-Q. Only tried it a few times myself but it wowed me everytime. Its got its own spectrum analysis built in and it is very easy to use and it looks hot (like all FabFilter products).
Yeah. Well my point is, I don’t like how it arcs up. (In my opinion a shelf is no good if it is arced, then all your books and stuff will just fall off ;))
I’ll definitely take a look at the fab filter pro Q though, thanks!
Spam and Gonio 3 for me . really awesome Plug ins .
also i purchased Kontakt 5 and a week later i am still wondering why i havent got this years ago . the Sound Library are awesome and have all kind of Hardware synths ready to be tweaked .
[quote]alinenunez (11/12/2011)[hr]Spam and Gonio 3 for me . really awesome Plug ins .
also i purchased Kontakt 5 and a week later i am still wondering why i havent got this years ago . the Sound Library are awesome and have all kind of Hardware synths ready to be tweaked .[/quote]
Ok read the blurb - but what does the Gonio 3 actually do