PSP Vintage Warmer

So in the past in various threads i've heard a lot of mentions about this PSP Vintage Warmer,

in particular something about sine sub bass treatments, I think.

I just bought this beast but now i'm confused and I haven't any idea what to do with it.

What do you use it for?

Fat kicks and basses? Mastering?

The manual makes me feel lost too, but i'm reading it.

And I thought I knew how compressors and limiters worked..

I use it to fatten up my drum tracks, and then usually use it in the final stage of mastering to get that fat sound with a big bottom end and twinkly highs in the final mix. I've just started using it this way though, so I don't know a ton about it

cool, yeah im liking how it sounds on drums. still no idea what im going for though.

i like the warmth it brings to my synths on some of the presets.

LOVE THIS PLUG

I used it as an insert on every track from subtle warming to beefing up

sounds like the idm thing to do would be to NOT use it

  On 11/7/2010 at 8:01 PM, hahathhat said:

sounds like the idm thing to do would be to NOT use it

of course we should be using Dblue Glitch instead

  On 11/7/2010 at 8:34 PM, soundwave said:

  On 11/7/2010 at 8:01 PM, hahathhat said:

sounds like the idm thing to do would be to NOT use it

 

of course we should be using Dblue Glitch instead

my best trax come from unheard of, unpredictable german synthesizer named DER HEISENBLATT.

I'm not being intentionally contrary, but I really don't like it and never have done. There are much better subtle and mix compressors (cytomic), and effect compressors (elysia), out there.

This without question a very versatile and powerful plugin. I use it on a lot of things because A/Bing different settings and tweaking it for a short period of time it makes everything sound better 90% of the time. No doubt this thing is great for drums, it nearly always gives drums a tastier hot punch. I just got the mastercomp version of this which is similar I guess but just designed for mastering which I haven't used yet.

  On 11/7/2010 at 10:48 PM, kakapo said:

I'm not being intentionally contrary, but I really don't like it and never have done. There are much better subtle and mix compressors (cytomic), and effect compressors (elysia),

I'm sure there are "better" plug-ins, but this thing is just so easy to use and learn. It's very intuitive. Just because it's easy to get good sound with we probably shouldn't use it guys... We do listen to IDM after all...

I think the statement that there's better plugins would only apply to certain scenarios. Vintage Warmer is not supposed to be a completely subtle transparent compressor. It's really versatile as but it's also a niche plugin with a distinct approach unlike all these compressors that are made to not color the sound at all.

the vintage is what makes it good

i use it on all of my final mixes, no matter what genre. haven't tried using it on anything individually though. might give it a shot on some drums.

Individually it can do some pretty great stuff to ANY audio you want beefier, punchier, hotter and even more pristine sometimes.

I mean like I said obviously it's not designed to be completely transparent and you do some versatile magic on individual instruments that you couldn't really accomplish with just mastering.

Speaking of anyone tried the PSP Mastercomp?

PSP's Mastercomp is great; comes with a nifty Microcomp for mixing too.

Not too keen on the Vintage Warmer though. Much prefer more transparent processors, and use something like PSP Mix Saturator on individual elements in the mix.

Chris - there'll probably be another track heading your way in the next few weeks. Are you still doing that mastering service ?

Absolutely, mate. Got my own separate site for mastering now too -- Melograf.

wow that's a great service idea. Are you pretty busy from it? Seems like a good niche.