Not that this is really the place to discuss VST plugins but... Waves plugins are quite expensive and (I would argue) a real pain to use because of their copy protection. The W1 limiter is a carefully coded clone of the Waves L1 Limiter, and it's free.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:24 AM, G. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > hmmm... so W1 is nice eh? Maybe I've had my head in the land of Waves > plugins for too long... > > -----Original Message----- > From: kent williams [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 9:15 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: list 313 > Subject: Re: (313) Deep Mix: "A Void" > > http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/Verdant-A_Void-Mix.mp3 > > Gone on a diet - 192kbs MP3 -- 153mb. > > Oh, and Andrew there was a LOT of headroom on that mix, so I jacked up the > volume, without messing with the dynamics. > > One thing that DJs who aren't dyed in the wool studio rats don't do is a bit > of after the fact mastering. I don't believe in messing with the sound > much,as you're playing other people's productions which have been mixed and > mastered to their satisfaction already. But it never hurts to get things > pushed up to normal commercial volume levels. > > A gift to the world is the W1 limiter. This is a 'brick wall' > lookahead limiter. You just look at your waveform and pull down the > threshold so it cuts a few DB off your biggest peaks. Most of the time it > will be completely transparent, and just raise the average level so you > don't have to max out the volume to hear it on the subway. > > http://www.yohng.com/software/w1limit.html > http://www.betabugsaudio.com/plugs.php > > It's also a great plug-in to drop on drum tracks to get them embiggened. > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Tracklist looks good, but at 550mb its too expensive for my connection. >> >> :( >> >> C >> >> >> > My first time sharing a mix on here but i reckon this one stands up >> > to closer inspection. I've actually been sharing higher tempo mixes >> > on my sound cloud space for a while and share more experimental and >> > ambient stuff on my own site. >> > >> > >> > Dub and Deep House/Techno i guess. Older and newer stuff, some of >> > which I treated myself to for my birthday last week. Hopefully I'll >> > come back to this later in life and remember the stuff I really >> > liked when I was forty ......something. >> > >> > >> > http://soundcloud.com/verdant-recordings/a-void >> > >> > >> > Monolake /Void (Imbalance Computer Music) Zzzzra /Ennio Profundo >> > (Optic_Remix) (Sublime Port Netlabel) Delta Funktionen /Estuary (Ann >> > Aimee) Nick Sole /Contigo (Mojuba) Benny Brunn / Stay Hungry Stay >> > Foolish (Bine) Haventepe /Air (Styrax Leaves) Conforce /Spoiled (XDB >> > Remix 2) (Clone Basement Series) Gerd /Time & Space (Duplex North >> > Side Remix) (Clone Basement Series) Donato Dozzy /United Elements >> > (Lan Music) Substance /Inversion (Scion Versions) Ribn /Mined >> > (Millions of Moments) Tob Jona /Metro 501 (a.r.t.less) Untitled >> > /Madteo (Workshop) Deepchord /Sofitel (Soma) Freund Der Familie >> > /Sark (Sven’s Short Range Mix) (FdF) Alton Miller /Deep In My >> > Soul (Peacefrog) Black Jazz Consortium /Deep Love (Soul People >> > Music) Sven Weisemann /Kiss of Abama (Mojuba) Move D /Jus House >> > (Uzuri) >> > >> > enjoy and feedback always welcome. good bad or indifferent. >> > >> > thanks for listening >> > verdant-recordings June 2011 >> > >> > >> > www.verdant-recordings.com >> > >> > Andy >> >> > >
