Re: bidule users - live usage & "presets"

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Todd Matthews <gtmatthews@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> what do you recommend for EQ or compression on the windows side of the 
>fence?

Hi Todd,

Long ago I bought the EQ and Compressor plugins from Sonalksis and
have been using them a lot under both Windows and Mac. The reason I
bought Sonkalksis was that by the time no other compressor plugins
could work all inside the plugin buffer, meaning no extra latency
added by the plugin. I also like the sound of the Sonalksis
compressor; it is by no way transparent sounding but I just like the
way it colors the sound. STill today I use them in Mainstage. The are
not better then the Logic/Mainstage compressors in  a technical sense,
but sound cooler ;-)) and I always use them in Live instead of Live's
compressors that I have never become friends with. On Mac I use to
slap a four band multi compressor on the main output to open up the
sound a bit (Apples OSX free Multicomp, or Logic's if in that app) but
for Windows I never found an alternative. I don't "just compress
stuff" but make sure the sound I play summed with the loops I create
balance each other with a rather linear curve through the frequency
bands. If not taking that approach, compression might make the music
sound worse. I like the feel of playing and looping through
compression :-))  Similar to the feel of having new strings on an
instrument, "just a little more of all good things"

Per