
I also LOVE the W&F on those last 3 tapes. I like that Reelbus has a couple of very distinct colours and a lot of versatility and options within those. I use it just as much as VTM and both of them do something the other one can't. To Bormoleos: TB Reelbus is a great tool indeed. How are you guys feeling and diggin' these tools nowadays? Any similar thoughts floating around here? Let's have some healthy discussion about the whole trend and where it's at the moment. After all I've always digged a lot of reference stuff that's mostly done purely ITB. There's always those few old school vibe projects where these tools come in handy but on a lot of times, I feel this stuff takes more than it gives to the process and you need a lot of extra work to subdue the negatives. To confirm my analysis, worked last mix totally without these tools and was very happy to find out that the mix still had glue, depth and vibe in the final product and there was for sure extra dose of punch and separation happening! Noise, lost punch and transient attacks, extensive mud on lows and low mids to mention those few "sought after"-qualities that I've grown to hate as time has passed.Īnd all this occurred to me still, even I've always been very meticulous about gain staging and using this stuff lightly and the "correct" way. And this has mainly been happenin' just cause "you're suppose to and all the big guys made their records in the past like this". I feel these analog modeling, emulations of consoles/tape machines are really working against me on 99% of the cases.īeen analyzing my work (mostly modern metal and rock) and learning curve past couple years and now looking it back, I feel I've started to struggle and concentrate on totally wrong things when defaulting and inserting emu's into the workflow.
