hey peops,
I have been eyeing the heat for quite a while now. Other things were more important purchase wise, so it was on hold. I have watched alot of videos, but using stuff on your own material is the only way to really see if something is for you.
Thats why I wanted to ask if somebody could run something like a 32 bar part of a track of mine through their heat? That way I could get a feeling of what it brings. Wouldn#t have to be perfect, just something that “speaks”.
What I am thinking of is subtle saturation, generell warm up of course, but I want to see if it warms up the low end. I probably also would high pass with a slight Q bump to clean up.
If somebody would be willing to do this, the question would be at what stage on the master chain I would need to render (before/after compression - MBCompression and so on).
At the moment I use Trash2 for this and produch house/techno. Want to see if this would add for me.
For this kind of experiments I wanted to setup a simple server where people could upload samples to process them through my Analog Heat. I’ll try that tonight!
Yes, I think so. That said, I think any thing will be ok. I saw a guy who got his tunes back from the mastering engineer and revisited them sometime later and ran them through various pieces. I wouldn’t worry too much. Let’s just see what happens with the material.
That said, it is a bit of a double edged sword.
As a rule of thumb, if it’s brick walled then there will be little to no headroom. This won’t give the Heat much room to do its “thang” my man!
If I were you, I’d leave as many dynamics in as possible; not just because I love looking at those fishtails!
Depends on what you want the Heat to do. Subtle warming, or full on “mastering”. But i think before limiting and heavy compression would be best. I like how a dynamic signal is processed in the Heat.
I recently tried sending an all analog mix into the Heat, and using it as the only thing in the mastering chain. I managed to get the song up to -14 LUFS, and -1 db peak without any other plugins or compressors.
Would be interesting. But it would mean more work for the people doing it and I just want to see what the heat brings to the table for my way of production.
On a side note. If anybody wants to hear the strymon deco on some material, I can do that. Probably best to create a different thread for that.
Man, I am in the throws of wanting a Strymon Deco BADLY, I just don’t know if it would do anything that Trash, Ableton’s Saturator or other plugins couldn’t do.
Are you wanting a heat to improve upon what the Deco is doing? I feel like Deco would do wonders for me (probably going to individually run my synths through it and multi-track) but thinking could just be GAS.
I don’t really use deco on my master. So no, the heat would not be a replacement. Deco is an animal for other things. At least for me. On the other hand, I should give it a whirl on the master again.
I love deco on individual tracks, and especially for widening.
Thomaso sent me an example of a way one can run the stuff through the heat.
and the before:
settings:
clean boost setting, pushed a little bit
a little EQ
synced sine LFO to boost the bass
internal ENV as a compressor
what I heard after first hearing:
nice compression. I hear some added depth, especially in the midrange. the highs seem pleasantly tamed.
I really like what I am hearing here. I think this would pretty much be how I would use the unit.
but maybe somebody has a different take, a different flavor.
sounds like fun