TL:DW; Mid/side conversion utility plugins. EdIsDim It’s always nice to expand one’s horizons! You don’t have to run the latest Logic to be able to use any plugin in mid/side mode… though you might need to do a little fiddling with settings. EdIsDim comes in two plugs: first use MidSide to convert your stereo track […]
TL:DW; Wobbly and weird! Melt As useful as utility plugins are, sometimes you just have to do something wobbly and weird. Here’s Melt! To explain what it’s doing will be a little tricky. You can just download it and play with it, but if you want to know what’s under the hood, here goes. Suppose […]
TL:DW; Design your own tone-shaped TPDF. BuildATPDF I explained how DoublePaul was made: taking a TPDF highpass dither, and including additional nearby samples to cause the tone of the noise to be more high-pitched. Wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t give you a chance to play with it yourself :) To use BuildATPDF the way […]
TL:DW; Like PaulDither, but more so. DoublePaul This is for sort of a special purpose. I’ve got an outrageous custom dither (well, wordlength reducer: there’s no noise and no randomness in it) called Not Just Another Dither. For final output, it’s that I recommend. However, I’ve got a mastering engineer friend (Hi Bob!) who favors […]
