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    @Nick Batzdorf said:

    The question is who you'd rather have tell you to use Magneto or Vintage Warmer - Larry or Dietz. [6]


    I'm sure this is meant to be humorous, I'm just not tracking with the humor. With all respect to Dietz, I'd talk with Larry because he had a signficant hand in developing GS3. So when you can talk to someone directly who had that much involvement, I think it's a good think to follow up and ask him.
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    I'm not trying to be obnoxious, Peter. Of course Larry's great - we all know that. And his drum library is as good as any sample library on the planet.

    Dietz has been involved with VSL's development since early on, though, and having heard some of his work (for example the Kuno Schmidt [spelling?] demos on this site) I think he's at least equally qualified to comment on it.

    My point was just that both guys are likely to say the same thing. The sound Inteleky is after isn't going to come from eq or convolution, it's going to come from grit.

    And I'd also add my opinion that the GigaPulse medium hall is difficult for me. There are a lot of excellent impulses that come with G3, but that hall just sounds too brassy for my taste.

    However, I don't think that's what Inteleky is talking about - although I could be wrong.
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    @Nick Batzdorf said:

    I'm not trying to be obnoxious, Peter. Of course Larry's great - we all know that. And his drum library is as good as any sample library on the planet.

    Dietz has been involved with VSL's development since early on, though, and having heard some of his work (for example the Kuno Schmidt [spelling?] demos on this site) I think he's at least equally qualified to comment on it.

    My point was just that both guys are likely to say the same thing. The sound Inteleky is after isn't going to come from eq or convolution, it's going to come from grit.

    And I'd also add my opinion that the GigaPulse medium hall is difficult for me. There are a lot of excellent impulses that come with G3, but that hall just sounds too brassy for my taste.

    However, I don't think that's what Inteleky is talking about - although I could be wrong.


    Since the question involved GigaPulse, I merely suggested that he contact someone who had a hand in developing the program. It doesn't have to be one person or the other, he could contact both and see what each says!
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    Fair enough.

    Peace!
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    @Another User said:

    The sound Inteleky is after isn't going to come from eq or convolution



    That is, unless you use the convolution engine to produce grit, which you can do with some of those models.
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    @Dietz said:

    Ok, sorry, only several "Amadeus"-awards (the Grammy's Austrian equivalent) on my side, this makes me a less insightfull professional recording engineer, obviously! [:D]


    Fantastic! I never knew that about you. These are the kinds of things you should be publicizing. Again, my point with contacting Larry is that he had a hand in developing GS3 and created the Larry Seyer Reverb that comes with GS3 and GigaPulse. Part of the posed question involved GigaPulse, hence my reference. No slight intended, Dietz.
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    @Nick Batzdorf said:

    Fair enough.

    Peace!


    Shalom.
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    @Dietz said:

    Ok, sorry, only several "Amadeus"-awards (the Grammy's Austrian equivalent) on my side, this makes me a less insightfull professional recording engineer, obviously! [:D]


    Fantastic! I never knew that about you. These are the kinds of things you should be publicizing.

    Actually I admire the people who do get awards and don't mention it on every occasion... however surely it's a nice thing to have such a good reputation in background accompaning the work you are admired for anyways (I think Dietz hasn't recieved one for his work for VSL yet).

    PolarBear
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    Nice, very specific advice Dietz - immediately useful & much appreciated! I like the Vintage Warmer a lot too and it's great value. The Sonalksis EQs have a nice character too, not too "clean".

    It's kind of funny to "mess up" the VSL Sound but also fun, like being allowed to get your clothes dirty as kid....[:)]!

    Peter, thanks for the tip about Larry, too......great for GS3 Users!

    Nigel
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    If you have a UAD-1 effects card, you can try putting an 1176LN compressor in the chain to add some "crunch" to the audio. It may not be the type of distortion you want, however. I REALLY like it on drum tracks, so it may be useful for your snare/bassdrum tracks. The 1176LN is also available as hardware, in case you want to go that route.