Winston OBoogie
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abbey road d enfer said:Thing is, what is commonly called "warmth", "punch", "sizzle"... is actually the addition of harmonics and intermodulation products. Once they're added to the signal, there's no way to remove them, so adding IC's to a signal path cannot "sterilize" it.
Some would argue that a plug-in is a better way to add the warmth, sizzle, fo' shizzle-yo or what have ya after the fact. I'm not so sure.
Without getting into comparing digi models with analogue, I think there's something to be said for going after a particular sound for your stems or tracks and commiting yourself to that tone.
Too much is left to the end these days in my very humble opinion, including flubbed or bum tuned or timed notes.
Remember when you pushed up the faders on a track and the engineer and producer had been building the mix as things went along that, when it came time for it, it already sounded pretty close to a real record?