pluggins

alan kelly

alright guys.. wonderin if there is any good pluggins available for vocals.. doing a lot of home recording.. going well so far but just lookin to experiment.. think focusrite have new stuff available but dont know if they are any use..using pro logic.. any ideas wud b great,, cheers

SeanHurley

What are you looking for the plug in to do?

Since you mentioned them, ill give some love to the focusrite d2 and d3..the d2 is pretty much my favourite eq...but i think they're rtas(pro tools) only..

woodsdenis

alan kelly wrote: »

alright guys.. wonderin if there is any good pluggins available for vocals.. doing a lot of home recording.. going well so far but just lookin to experiment.. think focusrite have new stuff available but dont know if they are any use..using pro logic.. any ideas wud b great,, cheers

What you have in Logic already will give you very
good results.

alan kelly

not really sure what i wanted.. just experimenting.. effects on logic are pretty cool but seem 2b getting a weird addiction 2 pluggins.. d simplicity and quality of sounds are amazing.. i feel like i need a new hit,, quick

Rockshamrover

alan kelly wrote: »

alright guys.. wonderin if there is any good pluggins available for vocals.. doing a lot of home recording.. going well so far but just lookin to experiment.. think focusrite have new stuff available but dont know if they are any use..using pro logic.. any ideas wud b great,, cheers

I am currently using a Demo version of Channel Strip by Metric Halo. It's not specifically for vocals, it does a bit of everything. sounds really nice. There are a couple of presets for vocals though.

I would love to try some of the Waves or Sonnox plug ins but they are out of my price bracket.

SeanHurley

My sort of default plug-in chain for vocals would be
UAD LA2A - UAD Cambridge EQ - Waves De-esser

I'll normally have a few sends as well:

UAD Plate140, PSP 84, Waves Multi-Tap, UAD Roland 201 Space Echo.

However, there is no silver bullit it changes for the singer.

The uaudio LA2A is a great compressor for vocals - you can really squash things but it still sounds natural. The UAD 1176 if you are looking for something more aggresive and punchy and like basically any american rock record in the last 20 years!

I sometimes use a MCDSP Analog Channel as well to smooth things out.

EQ can change based on singer. Cambridge does what I need it to do most of the time. Although I will use what ever needs to be used to make something sit.

Waves stuff is not bad if bit on the expensive side (I really don't like that you have to pay an annual "update fee" when you have already paid $1000 on the plugins).

The uaudio stuff needs a UAD card unfortunately but it is well worth it (you can pick UAD1 cards fairly cheap now that UAD2 is out). They have the added bonus of taking the load of your CPU.

For tuning (although dreaded - often needed) I use melodyne, it's straight forward enough to use and if you don't overdo it you can get pretty natural results. Of course melodyne also allows you to do mental things if you want tuning things up or down octaves or the "Cher" effect.

Hope this helps

alan kelly

helps big time guys.. thanks for takin the time to reply.. hopin to get a bit of time over the summer to delve deeper.. cheers tak soon

dav nagle

The waves diamond 6 upgrade for 200 although unfair and over priced still looks very appetising to a you feline like me. You get a a brand new compressor and delay plug in and loads of other stuff.