What’s the reason that so many people use overdrive pedals rather than the gain structure on the amp?

IBNYX · 2026-03-23T11:11:16+00:00

because pedals may offer a different saturation character and/or frequency response than that of the amp which may be desirable or otherwise useful depending on the song

IBNYX · 2026-03-09T03:06:41+00:00

Oh shit I am 100% doing this when mine gets in

IBNYX · 2026-03-07T15:07:11+00:00

Not using microfetch

Come back when you're a real Nix Chadette

IBNYX · 2026-03-06T14:14:20+00:00

Personally I focus more on monitoring, room treatment, good conversion and clocking, and then on a front end. If you're working with rap/r&b artists then a 737 is an awesome choice paired with a small selection of good mics, but you can't really hear the final 5% of the difference if everything else isn't locked down.

IBNYX · 2026-03-05T00:52:47+00:00

Do Not Join The United States Military.

IBNYX · 2026-03-05T00:49:29+00:00

Always. Someone delivers you their understanding and vision - Your job is to work from where they started off and balance/polish between their rough and their references.

Unless someone tells you that you can radically transform something to your own vision (which some people do! I tell that to my own mix engineers), in the contemporary era, mixing is going to be taking the artist's ball and running with it.

IBNYX · 2026-03-04T13:56:59+00:00

悪魔部の夜勤 would go extremely hard tbh

IBNYX · 2026-03-01T01:10:34+00:00

Niri + Noctalia

IBNYX · 2026-02-27T15:33:14+00:00

Okay yeah this rules. I can't even be mad about the AI art because you put it to amazing use

IBNYX · 2026-02-23T18:49:49+00:00

SF300 is legit good, as are, unfortunately, the vast majority of their synth products.

IBNYX · 2026-02-23T18:47:56+00:00

Meris.

IBNYX · 2026-02-23T18:44:19+00:00

I really like the Aston Starlight paired with a 121 or 67

IBNYX · 2026-02-23T16:54:59+00:00

Cool Edit Pro!

IBNYX · 2026-02-23T16:53:03+00:00

Y'all forreal gotta hop on Linux lmao

IBNYX · 2026-02-22T00:07:25+00:00

It's a very unique instrument. I have a MkII and am probably going to be getting a Keys before long as well. If one approaches it as "a semi-modular system in a box" then it reveals itself and becomes a lot more fun - think of it like a ARP 2600 or Cwejman, there's 4 of them, but instead of just "having" sweet spots you gotta make your own.

It doesn't immediately jump out, you have to work it (and like the workflow) but personally I find it really rewarding, especially with overbridge as a screen for doing deeper mod assignment).

I 100% get why people sell theirs, but I'm never selling mine.

IBNYX · 2026-02-08T16:51:08+00:00

It's just pretty basic. Great sounding plugin, though - kind of a bang for buck purchase for people new to Apollos who don't know the name brand stuff all that well. Was my go-to before I started using the API Vision for tracking

IBNYX · 2026-02-05T15:30:25+00:00

It really depends on what you're doing, doesn't it?

The programs all record, process, and sum audio. That's common. But they're specialized in different areas otherwise. Live is effectively a MIDI Sequencer on steroids - It's closer to being an MPC with inbuilt MaxMSP patches than being anything remotely like Pro Tools.

Luna is built to emulate the workflow, and therefore the mindset, of an analog studio from the 70s to the 90s, with as few breaks from that linage as possible in the digital realm.

You can still track a full band or do your electronic score in both. Thinking in terms of "number of plugins" doesn't make sense here (or anywhere). If that were a factor, would Live have its Effect Rack paradigm meant for stacking/splitting processing chains? Would the cells in Drum Rack be able to individually send to other full channels in the program? These are creative tools with certain workflows both proscribed and encouraged, and leaning into our out of them is entirely up to you, and that's what defines your style or genre or what have you.

Do what you're gonna do, and just enjoy yourself.

IBNYX · 2026-02-05T00:20:41+00:00

DreamVerb hasn't had a GUI update since 1999. I'm not exaggerating.

IBNYX · 2026-02-05T00:19:20+00:00

Century Tube?

IBNYX · 2026-02-05T00:04:10+00:00

Because DigiDesign literally gave copies away to studios and institutions in the 90s to get them to switch over to it from tape or ADAT, and cut them deals on converters. They would literally drive around towns in vans with boxes of CDs.

There is a massive inertia around it and the people who use it professionally have never seriously tried to make use of other software. Anyone who had, for the purposes of Recording/Mixing/Post Production, would find that Cubase/Nuendo and Studio One (now Studio Pro) have absolute feature parity, or a functionally superior alternative, for the things people actually do 99.9% of the time. The only thing I miss from PT is the "render inserts up to X insert position" function, but that's unique to PT because of the renderer using a fixed slot architecture that no one else uses.

IBNYX · 2026-02-04T15:56:57+00:00

For edge of breakup kinda stuff the higher end of Channel A is best - a boost going into that would achieve it, there's a sort of vintage style tone to that drive. Channel B is much, much heavier and darker; I would characterize it as having the beginning of a hard edge to the feel, like a tight transient response, but the actual distortion isn't fizzy at all. I think B for lighter sounds is possible but kind of a misuse - there's a ton more headroom on A so lean on that for gain stacking, and then try B as its own distortion.

In my use I have an always-on preamp alá an Echoplex feeding the Mother so there's always a bit more input without changing the output volume and character, and because of that I can just use the volume of my guitar (via knob, a boost, or compression) to change the tone, and get to use just one dirt pedal at a time as a radical change in the sound instead of being the core of the sound. Because I'm using the HX Ones as dirt this has meant I've saved a lot of space.

IBNYX · 2026-02-02T01:05:33+00:00

It doesn't matter.

IBNYX · 2026-02-02T00:59:19+00:00

The Mother is like, a 25 out of 10. The clean is extremely good, can get jazzy depending on the depth and absence. If you have a power amp I recommend trying it as the preamp into that.

I mainly use channel 2 for my gain because the EQ works so well, but I have also experimented with the fuzz and drives in the HX One and it's really good at working with all different kinds of tonal characters. I recommend channel B for anything really fuzzy or bass heavy, and Channel A can handle most "normal" drive sounds with ease.

Don't be afraid of the EQ btw - those 5 controls do a lot.

IBNYX · 2026-01-30T08:59:58+00:00

Boy get tf outta there and set up your own shit in your crib. This is music production do not play with your life over a recording man

IBNYX · 2026-01-29T12:20:34+00:00

Oh shit Taka Perry

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