| PARIS EQ Trick [message #109118] |
Sun, 27 March 2016 00:26  |
mikeaudet
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Registered: February 2009
Location: Canada
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Hi All,
I just watched the video demo for the Steven Slate Virtual Mic Pro Collection, and while I wasn't that impressed with the sound of the plugin (as far as I could tell, they mostly just increased the volume), the video gave me an idea.
Maybe you guys are all doing this already, but it was a new idea to me.
In the video, he takes a track, copies it, and then distorts it using his plugin. He uses EQ to shape the sound of the distortion, and then blends it under the original.
I just tried this with the stock PARIS EQ on an acoustic guitar track. I copied the track, used the EQ to pull down a bit of the high end and a bit of the very low end (below 40 HZ), and pushed the trim to plus 15 dB. I then mixed it under the original track. The effect is amazing! It's so full.
I found that putting a high pass filter on set at 40 HZ made the distortion sound better to me.
I'd heard of parallel compression before, but not parallel eq/distortion.
Has anyone else tried this?
Cheers!
Mike
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| Re: PARIS EQ Trick [message #109119 is a reply to message #109118] |
Sun, 27 March 2016 14:03  |
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I've not tried that in Paris, but it's an old trick for bassists - you want distortion or other effects on your signal but you don't want all your tone sucked out, so you distort a copy of the signal and blend it in to the dry. Sonic Farm's new bass amp which will be hitting the streets in about a month (I have S/N #0001 reserved  ) has both distortion and a wet/dry blend built in. Never thought of trying it on guitars, must check it out!
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
[Updated on: Sun, 27 March 2016 14:04] Report message to a moderator |
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