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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

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.

"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.).

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

Chisel wrote: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

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