Lol, yeah, he's a GENIUS...

i believe they are better in conjunction to explain, esp to a beginner as myself. I wouldnt know wth he would be saying about the plug in if he didnt teach the (why and what).

totally! Even just his segments on various podcasts are so frank and insightful! Love him!

@@alienair1748 That is why I like him - its super easy to catch up with him

Exactly, he doesn't take it for granted and you can imagine he really squeezed everything he could out of the development. Mr Scheps you're a gent!

lol

Anyone can mix a song with waves plugins

Totally lol very nice guy too

@@LilChristo No.

@@LilChristo No.

I thought the same xD

Right someone to teach you something 😅

it definitely is.

Yeah, man-- holy shit

I know right? Lol. Andrew is the MASTER!

Me too

Patrick Fouhy never really understood the parallel plugin. What do you like to use it on?

Well, you can use it on almost anything. It's essentially a way to add parallel compression and/or synthesis to the sound. Super easy to use, BUT, it's really easy to over use as well. The four parameters, Air, Bite, Thick and Sub each add their own bit. Air and Sub (if I remember correctly) are more like parallel synthesis, adding harmonic overtones to the frequencies. While Thick and Bite are frequency specific parallel compression. Bite takes the transients and compresses them slowly with a longer release time. Great for making snares pop a bit more. Or getting any sort of faster sound to cut through a bit more. Thick is similar, but for the low end, really adds a nice round bottom end. If used on a snare drum it really fattens it up. On a kick, it add low end support without being boomy. Very round sounding. On a bass guitar these two knobs can really bring out the articulation, of the pick/fingers, while keeping a fat, round bottom end. Air, on a snare drum, just adds a little more polish to the upper end, and really accents the attack of a kick drum. Sub...well, that adds sub harmonics. the cool thing is the parameters play off of one another, so once you figure out how they interact with one another, the better you can dial in a sound. Also, the parameters aren't so extreme that you can't turn it all the way up. On a drum bus, just cranking every dial up to almost full has a dramatic effect but is still a useful effect. (if that makes any sense) It almost begs you to crank a parameter farther than you typically would. The downside, is you don't have much flexibility within the frequencies. I Thiiiiink it just draws from the source for all that information. If you use it on too many parts of your mix, it will make your mix very powerful, but it kills dynamics if used too much (like anything) and since you can't fine tune very much, using it on multiple sources does make your mix sound a little hollow because it's accenting similar frequencies on all the tracks you use it on. If you need an instrument to really pop in the track, Parallel Particles does it nicely, and very very easily.

Patrick Fouhy just replying to compliment your awesome response. Puts my discordant thoughts on it into something that connects the dots and told me a thing or two I didn’t know. Gonna watch his 30 minute explanation video on it now thank you!!

Raal007 agree ... Incredibly light on CPU and my go to channel strip.

Facts

Great to hear!

I just got mine too. It is VERY GOOD!

Me too! Crazy right?

@@aarona.dubzperson8245 Absolutely.

+1.

Dude! It's really not that hard. Maybe watch the video a few times and try all the options on your own mixes. This plugin is built to address many audio engineering concepts, all in one place. As such, it's a fine toolset. You'll get it. Hey if it takes months to learn, that's value! Try the presets, they are very, very useful.

Yeah, that is BEASTIE!!!! Never saw that before.

Lmao how did you not initially see its purpose?

@@supersquare-maybe because Waves kept launching the same plugins with an extra feature and different gui .

😮

Hope you have a stout CPU because the downside of SOC is that it's not really light enough on CPU to be used on every channel. I was bummed to find that out, but still a great plug

Joely Barish I'm rocking an i7 with 24 gigs of RAM, so hopefully! If not, I can at least use it on all of my bus groups.

You're going to end up using less plungins in the end though. Use this, then hit it with some magic (Pultech etc) and bam you have your sound.

That's awesome!!

To who? Waves?

@@brianjohnson9802 he should have sent it to me so I can get this

... and pros, alike.

Don't forget Paralell particles.

It's very easy on the system Tim, just got it myself and causes no latency whatsoever in Cubase - compare that with Abbey Roads Mastering from Waves which is 180ms! XD

But obviously sounds like heaven

@@JulianMerkerMusic Ha! I frickin love that Abbey Road plugin, I'm always telling people about it