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Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:03 am**

Review of Celmo's Flaming Super XDZ5W 2000 Master Killer Pumpkin Filter

Johann

P.S. I'll get started on that preset archive tomorrow, I promise... Sheepish

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Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:38 am**

Wow, I am a bit speechles. I never had a plug that obtain his aim on a high quality level such this.
Only one button and your music changes completly to something really clear and athmospheric.
I know many music tracks that could benefit from this plug.

Another marvelous work from Celmo.

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:27 am**

Review of the century, blazesboylan - Sound On Sound attains new heights of literary eloquence

[ This Message was edited by: Plato on 2004-06-26 06:35 ]

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:08 am**

You need to hear the sound of this filter to actually understand its quality. I took the liberty of making a sound demo that captures the performance of the pumpkin filter.

http://www.iface.ne.jp/~ken/pumpkinfilterdemo.mp3

In the beginning half, you can hear how the pumpkin filter has rebuilt the low end, mids, and high end to sound perfectly similar to the original signal. I suppse Celmo has used some sort of STFT reverse synthesis mechanism.. still, pumpkin filter can rebuild the signal so much alike the orignal signal, that perhaps there are some hidden secondary resynthesis algorythms. I'm guessing there is some form of simple granular synthesis going on... or some sort of sample manipulation, as the reconstructed sound is sample accurate when compared to the original signal.

In the second half, the pumpkin filter has colorized the signal to sound like silence. As you can hear, Celmo's "silence" has a certain warm, phat, vintage feel to it that is reminiscent of all his other devices. I tried comparing pumpkin filter's "silence" to silence from Cooledit, Soundforge, Wavelab, and even ModIII, but Pumpkin filter's silence had most character, being totally dead, dark, and so.. "not there".

All in all, this device is a completed, polished product for the most professional musician. 20 years ago, this feat may have seemed impossible to achieve with the slow processors and weak DSPs of the time. Years have gone by, and now, finally, we can have perfectly modeled, physically accurate, totally custimizable silence at our fingertips.

Got a bad mix? Run it through pumpkin filter and shut it off.

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:03 pm**

Lol!

Hilarious posts and reviews Blaze and Ken!

You made my day!

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:06 pm**

The Waves version was definitely inferior. But now I'm considering going hardware. The NoPass filter especially caught my attention.

http://www.synthesizers.com/q199.html

[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2004-06-26 19:07 ]

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2004 12:12 am**

Funny guys.
Took it serious at first coz Celmo plugins are onw of my favourites.How did it get in SOS?

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:56 am**

On 2004-06-27 01:12, Music Manic wrote:
How did it get in SOS?

check the url of the review link...

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:52 am**

On 2004-06-27 07:56, hubird wrote:
On 2004-06-27 01:12, Music Manic wrote:
How did it get in SOS?
check the url of the review link...

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:22 am**

On 2004-06-26 07:08, kensuguro wrote:
Got a bad mix? Run it through pumpkin filter and shut it off.

I think Ken has hit the nail on the head with this one. In fact, I can think of numerous pop songs that would benefit immensely from Celmo's new plugin.

Maybe this plugin is really designed for mastering engineers -- the Fairchild 670 of binary filters...

Spirit: you can go hardware if you want. But the problem is THERE IS NO "ON" SWITCH!!!

Cheers,

Johann

P.S. Edit: Ken is right, this is for mastering. From the horse's mouth:

Simply an Ultra Efficient Master Killer (UEMK)

[ This Message was edited by: blazesboylan on 2004-06-28 03:23 ]

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:55 am**

thank you for existing.
without you guys, i wouldn't be capable.

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:35 am**

On 2004-06-28 03:22, blazesboylan wrote:
Spirit: you can go hardware if you want. But the problem is THERE IS NO "ON" SWITCH!!!

Quite right

I see now that Celmo's GUI allows much finer control of the most important filter parameters. I always seem to come back to the SFP devices in the end...

Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:54 am**

simply fantastic

think i'll use this to improve my lil sisters hi fi.

Posted: **Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:29 pm**

I thought you would never do something better than the BAM!

Posted: **Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:10 am**

fantastic tool !!!
why don't you try to build a hardware version of it ??? i'm sure you are able to !

a+++
olive