I will definitely try the VBC/MJUC combo you described.
Just in case you didn't know Slate VCC is an emulation of 4 famous consoles plus a certain tube console.
I will try to avoid making too many strong statements myself as I am not even 100 sure how important of a place it holds in my set up. Slate Pro Audio / Slate Digital 10 years We're a few days away from my new VCC tutorial, but spoiler alert: Don't be afraid to use the linked input/output to drive the virtual mix buss 'center section' hard to get some nice attitude and saturation. Audio engineers rely on analog mixing to provide the nonlinear musical qualities that digital mixing does not produce. I will try dialing the input knob way back and see what's what. Slate VCC is a divisive plug-in The concept itself brought into question by many. Slate Digital VCC - Virtual Console Collection Despite the digital revolution in the audio industry, many of today's top commercial albums are still mixed on analog consoles. I was putting a trim plugin before the mix buss to keep from bashing into it too hard, but i was still getting some mush. I guess Slate got scared people didn't hear what the plugin was doing or something.įG-GREY standard glue-ish settings with hpf and a touch of FG-MU (25ish%) going into a bit of MJUC is my magic combination.Yeah, you're right about VCC. Not sure why the drive is suddenly up so high. Setting the drive back to 0 and making a new default state so I didn't have to change my usual workflow brought back the nice VCC sound I liked (and like) so much. The diameter of the dial to be manufactured is set by the position of the slate along the slide. Its almost inaudible in many cases until you do an A/B comparison. To say that what it does is subtle is understating things. £115.00 Slate Digital VTM Tape Machine Analog Tape Plugin. Slates virtual console is one of those plugins that actually doesnt make a big difference to your tracks and final mixes - until you take it off and realize what youre missing. £115.00 Slate Digital FG-A Vintage EQ Plugin. £115.00 Slate Digital Custom Series EQ Bundle. £115.00 Slate Digital VPC Virtual Preamp Analog Preamp Plugin. £115.00 Slate Digital VMR Channel Strip Modular Channel Strip Plugin.
And here it isAvailable as a plug-in in its own right (which were reviewing here), and also as an additional desk option within the full VCC package (a freebie in v1.5), RC-Tube models a classic all-tube RCA broadcast desk from the 50s. Slate Digital VCC Console Emulation Plugin. As I never touched the drive knob I suddenly found that my default workflow (which is gain staging in a separate plugin, adding VCC and setting the console) resulted in a much more saturated (or mushy) sound all of a sudden. It is necessary to mount a braille slate at right angles to the aforementioned aluminum slide such that a braille letter '1' (dots 1, 2, and 3) written on the slate will be on the radius of a circle whose center is the shaft of the precision pot. When we reviewed Slate Digitals Virtual Console Collection, they mentioned that there was a vintage tube desk in the pipeline. When VCC was implemented in VMR, they changed the default state of 'drive' from 0 to 6 (I think it is 6).