Optimaster as VintageWarmer

[Chisel]

I admit to using presets in Optimaster. Once I have my song at about -3dB, I slap the Optimaster on the main mix to add extra over-all volume. I've heard great things about PSP's VintageWarmer and was wondering with the proper settings if Optimaster can produce the same results.

Thanks,
chisel316

[voidar]

Doubtful. OptiMaster is not a vint-age effect.

I think there is a free "warmifier" in the device section though. A combination of both might be what you seek.

[garyb]

"warming" is the most unscientific description of audio ever.

yes, a good compressor will "warm" up the sound, possibly as you wish, although the psp plug is a different effect(which is unnecessary. more processing generally does not make better sound.).

[chriskorff]

Hello!

I agree, you can't really apply temperature-related adjectives to sound!

However...

I'd guess (especially since he mentioned Vintage Warmer) that he's talking about adding musically-related armonics to his sound, in which case I'd opt for Vinco or PsyQ (though whether the OP has those plug-ins, I don't know - I think there are also some fine free plug-ins that would do the trick too, in the Devices section of the forum).

Unfortunately I've never used the PSP plugs, so can't relly say for sure!

Cheers,

Chris

[Shroomz~>]

I admit to using presets in Optimaster. Once I have my song at about -3dB, I slap the Optimaster on the main mix to add extra over-all volume. I've heard great things about PSP's VintageWarmer and was wondering with the proper settings if Optimaster can produce the same results.

Thanks,
chisel316

I've got both here & as others have said, you can't really compare Optimaster to the PSP effect as it most likely wasn't designed with 'vintage' in mind. Does that mean that you can't get vintage-style effects out of Optimaster? Well no, it doesn't because Optimaster is a powerful & extremely versatile plugin. If you experiment with it's on-board parameters & different methods of sidechaining it, you can come up with all sorts of interesting sounding results. For example, try sending your sidechain signal through (potentially dirty) filter combos, maybe a high & low pass filter in series & mix that with a tiny amount of noise (when I say tiny, I mean tiny) before it reaches the sidechain input. The idea here is obviously to alter the characteristics of the sidechain signal. For further sonic characteristics you could even try using 2 instances of Optimaster in parallel with extremely small variations in your settings & sidechaining experiments. Use the left I/O on one & the right I/O on the other, perhaps with a sample delay before the input of each & the same before the sidechain inputs, which will allow you to manually adjust your left & right phase pre input for both the audio & sidechain signals.

Experiment.

~Mark

[Chisel]

Thanks you, Mark. That is exactly the type of answer I was hoping to receive. I haven't experimented with side-chaining on the Optimaster or running two of them in parallel. I'll have to read the manual and start experimenting with the settings instead of just dialing up a preset.

Peace \/
chisel316