Phil O'Keefe Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 The world seems to be full of compressors and equalizers, and there's a decent amount of delay plugins out there too, but modulation is a bit less common - or so it would seem. So, flangers, phasers, chorusing, tremolo, etc. etc. - what are some of your favorite modulation plugins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted August 5, 2012 Moderators Share Posted August 5, 2012 The world seems to be full of compressors and equalizers, and there's a decent amount of delay plugins out there too, but modulation is a bit less common - or so it would seem. So, flangers, phasers, chorusing, tremolo, etc. etc. - what are some of your favorite modulation plugins? I like the Pro Tools Leslie a lot. For backups, guitar, electric piano. That sort of thing. I like modulation in the Waves Doubler. Subtle, but set up right it can be very cool. I like Blue Cat's chorus, phaser and flanger. Even the mod control in the Pro Tools mod Delay can be set up cool. Oh, and in iZotope's Trash you can do some very cool mod tricks. I love my cheap chinese Trem pedal from Belcat. And I love drawing volume and pan stuff on the grid in PT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mister natural Posted August 6, 2012 Members Share Posted August 6, 2012 CamelSpace for amazing rhythmic tricks within the modulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zooey Posted August 6, 2012 Members Share Posted August 6, 2012 I like modulation to be recorded at the source, so I very rarely use modulation plug-ins. I do like the "Reel Tape Flanger" plug-in for PT, though. Sounds just like the drum break in "Head over Heels." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted August 6, 2012 Members Share Posted August 6, 2012 I use SupaPhaser regularly. It's got a glitch, at least the AU version, in which is resets to default settings if you do the wrong thing, but I like the sound. I just have to be sure to save every setting I make so I can reload it when I accidentally make it reset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TBush Posted August 7, 2012 Members Share Posted August 7, 2012 I regularly use the chorus plug-in that's part of the Voxengo Analogflux Suite- I have it in my Logic Autoload... I also like the flanger and chorus from the old Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gubu Posted August 9, 2012 Members Share Posted August 9, 2012 Waves Enigma It doesn't do guitar pedal style modulations all that well - the 2 Small Stone presets that it has don't come anywhere near the real sound of my Russian Small Stone, for instance. In fact, many of the presets don't sound all that great and really just seem to be examples of what the plugin can do. But the power and sonic quality of this really shines when you take the time to tune the various parameters to the material, and how you want it to warble/swoosh/remangulate! Cool parameters include a choice of 1-6 delay 'steps' or 'notches' (the difference between some of the old style pedal phasers was how many delay stages they used), a choice of sine, square, sawtooth or triangle modulation waveforms, and stereo widening. (edit:- there is waay more to this plugin than those few parameters. It's almost infinitely tweakable and all of the controls are interactive - changing one will affect how another behaves.) I actually haven't used this for a while as I lost all my carefully crafted user presets last year during a machine reload (imagine my dismay!), but I know I'll be using it again. Not the easiest to use - if you want 1987 LA style chorus, buy a Danelectro Cool Cat chorus pedal. This plugin is cheaper than one of those tho. And it really rewards a little care and attention when you're dialling it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted August 10, 2012 Members Share Posted August 10, 2012 I use several stock Sonar plugins which are very good.Most can give me simular results with some tweaking. I have a Lexicon plugin thet also has a chorus effect built in. Its a really good plugin but its difficult to tweak in because the GUI is built offa rack unit. Theres allot of scrolling through the time banks to find the speeds you want. I still keep coming back to the free Kjaerhus Classic plugins. I use the Classic Chorus, Phaser, and Flanger. All are wuick and easy to set upand they are just about as good as any others I've tried. I really like the chorus on vocals or guitar. its very clean sounding. Maybe its because I just know how to tweak them the way I like but they do add somereally nice depth to the sound. I dont go nuts with it, but it can really create a nice wall of sound and you have plenty of ranges you can use. Its especially good on vocals because it will take a bland mono vocal and both give it a lift it and some depth in the mix. Since its a stereo plugin a mono input will greatly benifit from it it. I also think the Voxengo chorus is very good too. Theres a suite that consists of TapeBus, Delay, Impulse, Insert and Chorus plug-ins.The chorus isnt realy fancy, but it has terrific clarity for giving things sparkle. The TapeBus plugin is also an excelent plugin for mastering work too. Voxengo has another free one, but I really havent gotten around to messing with it much. I do have one Waves plugin called Doppler that will do some wild effect. It lets you imitate the sounds of say a train passing by where the pitch willbe higher when its coming at you and then it drops in pitch as it passes you by. You can change the in and out times and slopes of the sound so you can generate a variety ofeffects. I've used it at the beginning or end of songs to make the music sound like someoneunplugged a record player while it was running. I've also used it on drum toms to get that bloopy synth sound out of them. Its a bit tricky to use but it can give you somethings other plugins cant. What might be cool is to find a chorus that has a side chain input that you could set totrigger off say a Snare or Kick. Then you could have say one deep chorus revolution each time thekick is hit. That would be much cooler than trying to time an LFO to do that. An LFO out of sequence with the beat can sound awful. If it was to run off a triggerd side chain, it woukld be sequenced with the beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chevybusa Posted August 13, 2012 Members Share Posted August 13, 2012 CamelSpace for amazing rhythmic tricks within the modulation +INFINITY!!! I also really dig Xfer's LFOTool and Roger Lynn's Adrenalin Sync 2, you can do some really cool stuff with them. The D16 mod plugs are great as well, as are the u-he uhbik ones and the Tone2 MutliFX... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 You know, I've never really messed with CamelSpace. I need to rectify that. Looks pretty powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members peanutroad Posted August 30, 2012 Members Share Posted August 30, 2012 I'm somewhat fond of Blue Cat's chorus which has the double advantage of being free and being available as a DX plugin which still works better in my DAWs of choice. And, of course, it sounds good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members americansinner Posted August 30, 2012 Members Share Posted August 30, 2012 Valhalla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mister natural Posted August 31, 2012 Members Share Posted August 31, 2012 You know, I've never really messed with CamelSpace. I need to rectify that. Looks pretty powerful. the other trick is to compress with the gain controls of CS or to dial in the input levels vis a vis theo output level of this FAB plug I think one can get totally lost in a pink floyd kind-of-way with your GTR and CamelSpace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 7, 2012 Members Share Posted September 7, 2012 I'm somewhat fond of Blue Cat's chorus which has the double advantage of being free and being available as a DX plugin which still works better in my DAWs of choice. And, of course, it sounds good too. It's surprisingly good, especially considering the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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