Is the CPU light enough to cover a lot of tracks? Sounds great in the video and i can't wait to demo and mess with the drive on this one - post back after you've played around with the Helios after it, that sounds really cool, interested to hear about that. Here's a cool review of the Redd that someone did on youtube. and they actually sound a bit different too.Īnyways, i wanna demo the NLS and this one too the next time i have the head for it. i didn't do any kind of real comparison tho, so it could've just been the fun of something new., the NLS was cool, cuz i didn't realize at first, but they actually got a drop down menu to pick which channel of the 20 or 30 or whatever that they modeled for each board that u want to assign to that particular instance of the plug in. i love VCC too, but from my brief time messing with NLS, something about it seemed more solid and i definitely felt the drive take hold better than the VCC.
i've never really considered Waves as an option until recently got a chance to mess around with some of their plugs away from home and the one that really caught my attention was the NLS (non-linear summing) plug. This REDD thing is flexible enough to use anywhere! + it was on sale. I wasn't going to use the EMT or the 1176 on every track, not even every other track. I have never changed my mind before buying UAD, but the REDD option was more useable for me than anything they are offering right now. I was about to spend the money + their coupons on their plugins. Will UAD respond? I believe they probably should. It's got a LF pad that should soften the Helios LF bloat, and the input stage to kinda add in the (very) subtle analogue girth and non linearity that the UAD Helios seems to miss. better yet, it will sound gorgeous with the Helios.
I'm now gonna be testing it in chains with LA3A and 88RS. I enjoy this thing, it is a classic workflow, and it influences me straight in the direction closer to the sonics I have in my head. I don't mind those things from a conceptual POV. There were times when, and I hate to use the phrase "it made it sound like a record", in that just add to a generic kick, suddenly that kick had been processed.Ģ things which people will not like: No gang buss (no grouped bypass), no mid range control (not a modern style tone control box). Takes virtually no CPU on my machine, sounds good, almost too instantly, feels like cheating. Low and high filtering in the right places, a low end bump, a very pleasing and effective drive knob, and the whatever voodoo they do with the programming to make it non linear, is just right. The functionality of the REDD is exactly what I needed. With the Abbey Road Collection, the legendary studio’s signal chain is at your disposal - from the rooms in which magic happened, through the iconic vintage gear and techniques that ushered in the age of modern audio engineering.I don't know what it sounds similar to, but I was just about to use my 2 UAD coupons, on 2 plugs I had been slutting after for years, but decided to make a Waves account to demo the REDD real quick. The Abbey Road Collection includes plugin models of the studios’ famed REDD and TG12345 consoles, as well as RS56 Passive EQ (‘the Curve Bender’), J37 Tape, Reel ADT, the King’s Microphones, Abbey Road's echo chambers and reverb plates, and the one-of-a-kind Vinyl plugin which models Abbey Road’s vinyl cutting and playback gear. Developed in association with Abbey Road Studios, Waves’ Abbey Road Collection features a lineup of exquisite plugins that meticulously model the fabled studios’ legendary rooms, microphones, consoles, tape machines and signature effects, as heard on countless historic recordings and pop masterpieces.