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Potentially pointless ramblings about how the new generation of filter models are pretty good, actually, and in many cases outperform their pure analog brethern when it comes to processing guitar.
So I've been changing my guitar setup around again, venturing into what is by my count the 5th-gen plugins that are available. This was mainly as a result of my old powerbook dying and my new powerbook being an Intel model. I couldn't use my trusty PSP Nitro / Vintagewarmer combo for a long while... although both those are out in the UB format now.... but to the point:
To get my required filtering and delaying going on (listen to some stuff if you want to know my style) I needed new code and I had a little bit of money to spend so I tried out everything that I could get my hands on. The result? I bought Fabfilter's Timeless delay and Volcano Filter plugs.
Here's the poop on these: Fabfilter (as you might have guessed) is a company that is more than a little happy about the algorithms that they use to emulate analog filters, and if filters are what you like you are very likely going to like theirs. I'd first run across them when they released the FilterOne 1-osc VA synth a while back. I liked it, but I can't play synths for crap so I wasn't that interested. But I remember that filter.... it was quite nice and I wanted it as a plug the instant I heard it. Now I have it.
A few words about me and filters. I like them a lot. I've had a lot of them in my day, too: Sherman Filterbank, Lovetone Meatball, Quadfromage and Nitro, just to name my faves. I've been using Volcano for about four months now and I'm happy to say that, sound-wise, it is my favorite by a weide margin.
I like lowpass filters. I like to assign them to knobs and sweep them delicately over my guitars. I like to adjust the resonance. I like to drive them quite a bit, but I don't want any breaking up: I want the overdrive to stay under the cover of that black velvety lowpass filter, and then I want to sweep the cutoff frequency slowly up and have that overdrive funk out the transients in my guitar loops like crazy... but I want that high-mid madness to stay smooth, too... like my old sherman did things, but without the shortwave noise orchestra noise floor that the sherman always seems to have. And, oh, yeah without the world-destroying speaker shredding sound that it would occasionally make all on it's own that was like, 4billion db louder than the dulcet tones I was working on at the time. That sucked.
But back to the point: the filters on these plugs sound great mainly, I think, because of how they are set up so that you can drive the filter models with signal via input gain controls... the results are wonderful... so wonderful, in fact that they sound better to my ears than my Sherman did, not "as good" or "passable in a mix" but better. Caveat: I play guitars through these things, not drums, and I like much cleaner tones than most make with the Shermans out there.... in the realm of controlled overdriven tones the sounds that these two plugs make is quite extraordinary. | |
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02/14/07
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monkvolcano
dling demo right now. if this doesn't make my shit sounds as good as jdg's i'm shaving my earhole.
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n9
sv315mkII here, too. stupid good sounding.
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mapmap
Timeless seems awesome! i don't know how it slipped by me.
my favorite delay/looper has to be expert sleepers' Augustus Loop
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very nice tape delay sound and a UB and only $29!!!
02/15/07
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disturb
Anyone checked out Basement arts' Frantic ?
Sounds great to me, and has -tons- of modulation possibilities.
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I love Volcano too, but it sounds pretty different.
Recent blogs: dubstep = poo
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bleen
Anyone checked out Basement arts' Frantic ?
pc only. boo... 
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yghartsyrt
but sounding so great.
frantic that is
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phundamental
yeah there is just nothing better then sonalksis
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phundamental
god damn it that was in reply to someone from the previous page
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monkvolcano
damn me for thinking this... but i can't help but think about what pllugs in general will be like in 10 yrs.
02/15/07
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tmns
need to check out timeless, looks the shit! i really like echomania link pc only though, wish they'd do mac so i could use it on my macbook.
02/15/07
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Tenine
It's about 12:30 AM here now, but tomorrow (ie later today) I'd love to quiz you on
your thoughts of some hardware filters, n9.
I'm a bit of a stompbox geek and I need one for bass.
The Sherman Filterbank looks ace but is way out of my price range.
The Mooger Fooger is nice, but again also pricey.
EHX have released the Nano Dr Q, Nano Bassballs and Micro Q-tron.
Though they seem to lack the sort of controls and features I want.
Low-pass.
Frequency knob.
Resonance knob.
Envelope (follower) amount knob.
Those functions at the least for below £90
Anyway I must sleep, goodnight! 
Thanks for any ideas you have and I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
02/16/07
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Praveen
hey good post. i'd be really interested to hear what you think about EIOSIS' "AIR EQ" or some shit like that. Bit pricey but has a great musical sound.
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02/16/07
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Radio909
Thanks for pointin these awesome plugins out man, I was looking for some massive attack style filter action and these are the shit
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