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Jun 24, 2017 - These free VST plugins each offer something new and unique. This plugin is great for special effects, like filtering down a vocal or making an. Recreating the Waves Butch Vig Vocals Plugin Using Free Plugins (Part 2).

Coming back with what I’m calling part two of our look into the Waves Butch Vig vocal plug-in, the new signature series from Waves, and I’m really digging it. We’re going to take a look deeper into what’s going on, and I’m going to show you how to pull off some of these same techniques with stock or free plug-ins. That’s not to take away from the beauty of the Butch Vig plug-in, but I want you to understand the concepts and the techniques going on behind the scenes of the plug-in so that you have another arsenal of tools to go to, whether you buy the plug-in and you use, which I’m doing. I think it’s great. Or it’s not really in the budget right now, and you just want to stick to the tools you’ve got.

Maybe you’re doing this as a hobby and you don’t want to invest too much into your plug-ins. Spider box usb 2007 driver reviews. By all means, but even more important is the concepts are the concepts, and the strategies and the techniques going into it, so we’re going to break that down.

First things first, we’re going to hit play. I’ve got a Butch Lead track named after Butch Vig himself here, and we’ve got nothing but the Butch Vig plug-in. I’m actually going to leave those alone for now, we’ll talk about them later.

But then we’re going to look at the free lead audio track. It’s just a mono audio track, and I’m going to go through some options for you. Then we’ve got a focus track down here that we’ll talk about in the mix. So, here’s the song as it was thrown together. I did this in the first part. Mixed this vocal at this section, and let’s take a listen to that.

Eminem live from new york city download cd. Pretty cool, right? So, moving from that plug-in, I’m going to leave it up here on the screen, and we’re going to talk about each of the modules and how you can accomplish that with some free or stock plug-ins.

Actually, I lie. The only one I’m going to use is the Pro-Q 2, and that’s only because I know it for time’s sake and tutorials sake. I know all the keyboard shortcuts, but you can accomplish the same exact moves with your stock EQ, I guarantee it. So, first thing out of the gate, what we looked at was the compression, and the low-cut filter here. So, this filter that was dialed in to about 95 or 100 or so, if you watch the Waves video, they talk about having a little bit of a bump in the filter, and what that means is that on this low-cut/high-pass filter, if we engage that, there’s a little bit of a bump there. So, the Q all the way at the * position would be just flat, and then it drops off.

So, what they’ve done is they’ve increased that so there’s a gain increase at the tail end of the filter. So, if we take that, and we kind of scoop up on his vocal, we’re going to get rid of the lows, but we’re also going to be boosting a little bit where we begin the cut. So, let’s take a look at that. Let’s put it in solo, and we’re just going to scoop this up to that same frequency. [vocals] Okay.

So you can see how we’re cutting all of the junk down low that we don’t need. Someone accidentally hits the microphone and get a blast of low-frequencies, step on the mic, air conditioning rumble, any of that stuff that’s just taking up headroom, we don’t need it, it’s not contributing to the vocal sound, so we’re just going to get rid of it, and we’ve got this little bit of a bump there. There’s not really much happening. Pro-Q 2 has an analyzer, so we can see there’s not really much happening before 120-150 there, but it’s totally a taste thing. You can ride this up and just set it at about 100 to clean up the lows. Moving on from that, the – we’re going to come back to that EQ, but the next thing I want to look at is the tube saturation, or solid state saturation. Now, depending upon your DAW, the plug-in will be different, but we have a couple of character choices in Pro Tools, one being Lo-Fi, and my buddy Matthew Weiss has covered this a little bit.