just bought new spectralive VST awesome

[happydude]

Hiya, just purchased the new vst plug spectralive from www.crysonic.com its awesome. was curious if anybody else used this before, and what sorta results are you getting.

[MrM]

Crysonic; are you working for them?

New company, new product, first time poster telling us product is great.

No questions asked...

I don't believe you are not working for them...
In fact I believe you are registered at KVR under the moniker Molenaare, or he/she is your co-worker...

If not, ignore my ranting and feel welcome.

[MrM]

BTW, how much did you pay for it?

[happydude]

Hey MrM. LoL..Funny you say that. cause I'm definately not working for them, I'm a game developer, bought it for mainly to enhance the sounds in my games. Who is moniker Molenaare this is weird..haha..
Yeah paid 24.95 was going to pay i think was 82 something but they just changed their pricing.. emailed them about it and they told me it was a mistake from their website developer or something..Anyway...its all cool..

[MrM]

OK. It's cool then.

I've tried their demo, and I must admitt I like it.

[Sonic Valley]

Hey Happy Dude, Whats the game dev company you got going?

[Tekker]

At first I was totally with Sound Cracker.... It sounds like it tweaks with the phase to get that stereo depth, which sounds great on things like stereo miked acoustic guitar, synth, etc. but it has a very negative effect on things like vocals.

I just ran through the preset quickly and I think Vocal1 sounds the best for tweaking a two track mixdown, and it is useable, but I still wasn't to sure about it.... Once I start playing with the knobs a bit more and actually learning what sounds it can get, then I'm sure I can dial in better sounds, but I'm just messin' with the presets for now. I had made a copy of one of the mixes I had done and I was A/B comparing them and even though I liked the stereo depth that the spectralive track had, I preferred the overall sound and "solidness" (I just made that word up ) of the vocals on my original mix, which IMO is the most important aspect of a mix. I also didn't care for how the spectralive handled the low end, it sounds boxy and smeared. It takes the tightness out of the bass.

But just for fun I tried un-muting both tracks and letting them play together and WOW!!! It had the solid vocals that I loved AND it had the stereo depth of the other track! I lowered the volume on the Spectralive track to -12dB and tweaked it with EQ to blend in better and the mix just pops out of the speakers... Totally awesome! The best of both worlds! I am so buying this plugin now!!

-tkr

[oldfriend]

u are right on the low end muddy stuff tekker.... this plugin must have a highpass filter before the main effect. Then by mixing the raw and the processed tracks, it sounds interesting.... may be i'll buy one as well... 25 bucks is a very decent price for it.