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Seeking advise on Dynamic auv3 plugs, limiters, Mastering etc
I have been looking at Maximizer, no limiter 4 pockets comps, I just can't decide for some reason.
I am a Mac-logic pro user with cubasis 3 on iOS (avoiding garbage-band) due to limitations., I did purchased all the extras in Cubasis like the WAVES plugs., but nothing impresses me on the master channel ( I know cubisis does not have real bus channel sends and strips to isolate fx)
Has anyone here compared the (bit pricey $$$$) Fab Filter products to the rest or believe there is a better limiter, comp, de-esser (septette fo course) out there?
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I started with this https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tb-barricade/id1480150563
Will eventually graduate to Fab Filters
I find the ToneBoosters FX products to be top tier at a very reasonable cost.
Barricade, Reverb and (not requested) EQ are key buys... no specific De-esser, however.
Fwiw, Toneboosters quality is on a par with Fab Filters in the opinions of quite a few. There are a very few features in some Fab Filter apps not found in the Toneboosters apps but not a lot. TB stuff is first rate.
I like TB as well, but yeah, Fab Filter has important features I don't see in many plugs, such as been able to see the layers of frequencies in unique colours, control their levels, in sync, etc
I have both TB and Fab plugs and to be completely honest there is no need to graduate. ToneBoosters have excellent quality products easily on par with FabFilter, imo.
Toneboosters Eq for sure.
Bark Filter (secret Tripleband Sauce)
but for limiter which is your go to for critical mastering?
Both Barricade and the Fabfilter limiter are great. I have the Fabfilter in Auria Pro from before they were available as AU. They are both excellent and easy to use.
I stick with Barricade. I used to use ProQ3 constantly for EQ but I found that ToneBoosters EQ fits my work flow better. I just like their gui’s and the workflow is top notch.
do you find them to be identical as OS X plugs as well?
I don’t use OS X.
Or windows etc
You ver try the FAC plugs?
FAC makes some of the very best plugs in iOS. I have all of them and they all get lots of use in my mixes. Alteza, the latest FAC is arguably the best reverb on the platform.
I use TB EQ and Barricade for all of my mixing. They’re fantastic. Add in some ReelBus if you want that tape flavor.
First of all, I love Cubasis 3.
Especially due to the fact it's universal and, when I need to record vocals and produce music on the go, it's right there on my iPhone.
This is why I love ToneBoosters plugins. They are very simple to use, Barricade is probably the only plugins that can rival its FabFilter equivalent Pro-Q2, and best of all, _ TB plugins are universal_. I own all of the FabFilter plugins (both all of the VST IAPs in Auria and all of the AUs), and my only complaint with those is the fact they aren't universal.
Also I'm not sure what genre(s) of music you produce, but if you're into producing EDM, Hip-Hop, or anything beat-based like that, I would also pick up Bark Filter and use the Triple Band preset and feed the output into Barricade in a mastering chain as follows....
EQ->Compressor (gentle glue compression/optional)->Gain/Volume Control->Bark Filter->Barricade
Or if you're into Ambient, pick up DDMF Magic Death Eye compressor. It costs a pretty penny, but it's about as "musical" and transparent as they come. Just don't compress and limit the dynamics out of your ambient tracks.
Cheers, and best of luck. If you have any questions, please let me know.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stereo-width-control/id1493044617
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/visual-multi-band-compressor/id1474969434
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/6144-equalizer-by-ddmf/id1127457881
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mix-bus-compressor/id1467711076
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bark-filter/id1257672871
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parametric-equalizer/id1403326201
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tb-reelbus/id1482450479
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tb-barricade/id1480150563
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tb-morphit/id1487595036
If you are a Logic user .. nothing beats their stock settings
On iOS
I use Pro l2... love it for its GUI
Here’s a really good short tutorial on Pro-L 2
I jus tried the EQ and had my very first memory crash, I had to reboot cubists 3 and switch back to waves just to get a song back up and running
Ah yeah I never do mastering stuff in CB3. It just isn’t stable enough for that. I export stems from CB3 into AUM and use TB there.
true I noticed many issues with CB3 in the last session where I pushed it by adding a whole chain of plugs on each channel.
comps, eqs, stereo imagine and it was a simple two tracks of a vocal and acoustic track that it bailed out on when I added the TB EQ., as soon as I swapped the eqs cubase was happy.
Yeah I keep CB3 very light. The only effects I add in are those I want automated. Everything else I do in AUM.
I understand your work around but its not a professional solution,
the logical signal chain is the one that works and you can't get around certain things like side chain, bus sends, bus groups, dedicated fx bus channels and the more power the DAW the better to keep live and available for tweaking so you don't have to return to original audio snippet and rebuild a signal chain.
I wonder how well AURIA PRO handles all this, I have the full version on my iPad but every time start working with it I give up beasts like re learning pro tools from scratch.
It sounds like you’re trying to replicate a PC/Mac workflow with iOS and you simply cannot. The technology and software aren’t there.
You are correct but its worse then i thought, its Apple, we are indeed there and have been since 2008, its not just a lack of speed no more headphone jack, its like Apple does not want customers to have a product that perfectly works or they can't keep selling more, its kind of stupid as if they assume that the same people buy computers over and over, just make them more affordable so everyone can have a device, they already take cuts from developers.
Auria Pro can do all this. I wouldn't give up on it, it's actually not that hard to learn.
im gonna get into it tomorrow, I need to track guitars with fx inserts and buses, I still don't see any real bus solutions for iOS where you have the send levels to a actual bus with its own fx inserts, really important for reggae dubb, psychedelic trip hop and even sorting string sections in back of a band.
@GavrielProductions Are you trying to master without all of your tracks frozen/ mixed down?
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