
Personally I use DMG Equilibrium, also very popular with mastering engineers. I do not consider it a must have for electronic music however.įor surgical eq try TDR Labs, cheap and high quality. The 1073 is much better than the Slate one, which is too pointy in mids and the phase interaction is wrong.

Topics covered include: Loading The Driver, Setting The I/O Buffer, Using The Console Recall Plug-In, and more. This way I can tweak the settings if I want to change. I would like to record the dry vocals into Ableton and add in the UAD plugins into my DAW, like Auto-Tune, afterwards. One is to record dry vocals, and the other is to record vocals with the inserts applied. In this short video, UAs Gannon Kashiwa demonstrates the basic setup procedure for using Apollo within Ableton Live. When I record my audio into Ableton, I have two options in the UAD Console interface. If youd like to use a custom VST folder, you can locate the default WaveShell-VST from the locations below and copy it to your preferred custom folder: Windows: C:Program FilesVSTPlugins. Setting Up Apollo Interfaces w/ Ableton Live. The files in this folder should not be moved.
ADD UAD PLUGINS TO ABLETON SERIES
The Softube for UAD Chandler Curve Bender is a great bus eq, with color and more forward than Massive Passive, which is better for acoustic/more relaxed workĪlso like API 550 series for channels, eg 560b for kicks and 550a for guitars.ġ176 collection (the newer one, I consider the black 1176LN to be the most like real thing) and Distressor. Waves plug-ins are installed to a folder called Plug-ins V12 inside the Waves folder on your hard drive.

The newer 88rs is more neutral in sound but similar quality. The Cytomic is also good, but has a little less character than the UAD. I found these much more accurate at capturing the dry SSL sound than the Brainworx versions and more dimensional than SSL Duende, which is rather old at this point. The newer versions of SSL strip and Bus are ridiculously good emulations (I know the hardware well), but use a lot of DSP. The Eventide H910 is one of the best and vibiest delay plugins, but also available native. The Pure Plate is a stripped down version of EMT 140. There are EMT style plate alternatives from Soundtoys, Waves, Valhalla, but the BX20 you will not find anywhere else.

RMX16 if you like the ambience program sounds. Prob the 480L (although the Relab one was first and equally good) since you get so many algorithms that sound great with synths and percussion, highlights being halls and rooms. I’m thinking of getting the brainworx V3 as one of the plugins for surgical EQ/Mastering but trying to decide if it’s worth getting some channel strips/pre amps or other speciality stuff for the other two plugins. I do use electric guitar and voice occasionally, but really everything else is a small eurorack set up, ableton synths/omnisphere and lots of samples and field recordings. I’ve got a 3 bundle plugin pack where I can choose any three plugins over the next couple of weeks so just demoing things and wondered if you guys on here had any tips? A lot of the sites I’ve looked at mainly talk about tracking live instrumentation. I’ve just upgraded my audio interface to a UA Apollo Twin Quad to use with Ableton/Eurorack.
