Sets up his mix bus processing at the beginning of the mix Uses his 16 Channel Modified Quad 8 console for out of the box summingĪddresses phase and polarity issues on multi-mic’d sources such as bass DI versus bass amp microphones and the drum kitĪddresses the commonly overlooked phase relationship between kick and snareĭiscusses the importance of elements pushing the speakers versus pulling them Has his assistant, Danny Pellegrini prepare a session for mixing In the full 3 hour tutorial, learn how Jacquire:
This is one of several workflow quirks which Jacquire uses in this free extract from J acquire King Mixing Lifeboats, the 6th of the series in which different mixers all approach the same project and document their choices through the mix process. You can google it if you are not familiar or want to learn more.įree UAD Empirical Labs Distressor presets.In spite of the UAD Distressor plug-in having a mix knob, when setting up parallel compression on a drum bus Jacquire King chooses to use a duplicate path and to insert the Distressor on a bus set to 100% wet. You may find these handy if setting up a “Brauer”-style mix with calibrated aux/mix bus compressors. The Output knob is a little under 3, Release at 2.1, Attack at 7.7 and Input at 7.7. He says the wet-to-dry ratio for parallel compression is typically 60-40. (At -18 dbfs input level and a slight compression.) The drum bus compression setting on the UAD Empirical Labs Distressor plug-in. Again, all these do is fix you up with unity gain. They do not provide some kind of magic or celebrity compression setting-those are dependent on the source material and your desired outcome and no one can give you a preset for that. They simply set up the UAD Distressor plugin with a unity input and output at -18 dbfs RMS and a gain reduction of -2db. These presets are meant as a starting point. Here are some free presets you can use for the UAD EL Distressor. You can also push it to make everything go crazy!
(Just fyi, even at 1:1 there is a tiny amount of compression going on.) Add some “analog” to your sound with no compression. More distortion, even if not in your face, will add slightly more compression. You may have to adjust your setting a couple of times back and forth, but you end up with a great sound. Set the compressor set the way you like it and then play with the “AUDIO” (Distortion) settings.Before you do anything else, set the input and output to unity gain.Also, take a look at Empirical Labs Arousor. Keep in mind that these are only suggestions, and many plug-ins in this list can be used for multiple different applications depending on your personal taste and style of music. There are actually quite a few difference between the two, and you can check them out for yourself. Not sure which UAD plug-ins to use for your project See the chart below for suggestions based on common applications for each plug-in. It is really interesting to compare these to the TR5 Comprexxor, IK Multimedia’s take on the Distressor. Notice the graphs of the “dist”(ortion) settings. This is true about any compressor with those controls, but everything you adjust on the Distressor will be audible and apparent. Von David Derr, Grnder der Empirical Labs, empfohlen und exklusiv fr UAD und Apollo erhltlich, ist das EL8 Distressor Compressor Plug-In die einzige Komplettemulation dieses ausdrucksstarken Kompressors, der auf Tausenden von Hits eingesetzt wurde. The attack and release obviously will tailor your sound, especially a slower attack time which makes for a somewhat gentler curve.
I keep meds next to my 1176 for that same reason.) (Although I always have a serious personal problem when an input control, and not a variable threshold, is what activates the compression.
Pros + Probably the best Distressor emulating plugin yet. It’s sometimes a pain to dial in the right setting, but it’s always cool getting there. Like having a real Distressor inside your DAW, EL8 Distressor brings one of the greatest dynamics processors ever made to Apollo and UAD-2 in style. An exhaustive end-to-end emulation of Derr’s iconic hardware, the UAD EL8 Distressor is the only faithful emulation of this true desert island compressor. Now, having said that, it is also an amazing tool. The only authentic Distressor plug-in endorsed by Empirical Labs’ founder Dave Derr, the UAD Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor is available exclusively for UAD hardware and Apollo interfaces. The UAD Empirical Labs Distressor is fun…