You just can't get a stock Cubase Compressor to slam like an 1176 or a 160 or a ThrillseekerLA. How plugins react on drums, specifically, is a hallmark for me. That being said, I can't get the same drum sound with certain plugins that I can with others. Of course the UAD and other emulation plugins have got a lot going on under the hood to emulate each component in the design or whatever and have virtual harmonic distortion but sometimes I feel like it's just gimmickry. I often wonder if the plugins I love would have the same effect on me if they were just plain GUIs and sliders. The whole thing about plugins is that you forget you're looking at a GUI. The Antress stuff I haven't touched in ages and now with the Eventide Ultrachannel I'm pretty much set. In fact, I could probably make an entire record with VOS (Bootsy) plugins alone.
#How do i use cla 2a on reaper windows#
Yeah if you're on the Windows VST platform there are tons of free, great sounding plugins you could make an entire record with.
#How do i use cla 2a on reaper 64 Bit#
Anyway, something to think about.Įdit - one of my favorites is the Stillwell Rocket ( ), the mantis shrimp of software compressors - I'm using a 64 bit version which works fine, but I think the company is about to do a fresh release of all their plugs in 64 bit. Recently I even got something close to a real 1176 (the 6176 channel strip) and it's not nearly as noisy as the CLA plugin - I guess they're modeling older, noiser units, of course. I have spent way too long picking through tracks for the instance where I left the noise on. Then you hear a hiss through your monitors whether or not you're in "play" mode in your software.
You can set the default to be off, but then if you use the built in presets, it gets set back on again. When it's on, there's a hiss, and it drives me nuts. The CLA 1176, like a lot of the Waves plugs, has built in noise and harmonic manipulation (but mainly it sounds like noise to me) - usually billed as "Analog" or something in the user interface - you set it to 60hz or 50hz (for US or British power cycles, I guess) or off. Seems like I bought the bundle of CLA compressors on sale for maybe 149? 199? Not sure - anyway, that was during their holiday sales, and you might have wait until year end for that. I was using the CLA one when I ran out of DSP, and it seems OK (I recently got a bigger UA DSP thing, and so I've kind of stopped using the CLA one). My favorite 1176 plugin emulation is the newer Universal Audio one.