Lime wire from 2007 said they have it for 99%

I had to update my plugins last. I think cos they kept crashing pro tools, I emailed waves and said look I have a tonne of your plugins is there anything you can do, and they were not willing to budge an inch, absolute piss take. I hope they help you out man, it’s wrong to even charge you tbh

@@rune288 You are right. They are like that. :(

Yeah, the Waves Aphex plugin is nice. I have an original hardware Aphex Aural Exciter, but I don't use that a lot (anymore). For that bit of "air" you mention I like to use Waves One-knob Brighter. That is, only after the basic mix is set, if a touch is needed. Even a very low setting can can do it. Maybe try that sometime. I normally record vocal with no tone setting on the input, except some low ("rumble") roll-off.

@@DeLiverpool I'll have to check out the One-knob Brighter. Didn't know about that one.

Oh ye, Waves Aphex is a great tool for sweetening and not just for vocals, as I show in this tutorial kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJmeftiptqnIepc.html

I'd put performance before that...personally.

The mic used was a C414, Focusrite ISA pre and the singer & artist is James Hodder

Almost as if waves makes plugins and not microphones 🤔

Of course, you cannot forget about the microphone as frequencies are a major factor in the creation of this mixer👌

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Not true. Correction is absolutely necessary. Even with a world class vocalist, they are only singing notes according to their mind’s musical reference. Correction aligns the musical pitch with the rest of the song, creating cohesion. It can be subtle and still corrected, it doesn’t have to be all auto-tune esque. When the pitch is in the groove, it’s in step with the rest of the elements of the song.

@@NEO-TROPOLIS it’s very strange that Steve Perry, Bill Champlin, Joseph Williams and tons of other vocalists never needed it during their healthy careers and countless hit records. If you can sing, you very rarely need it and when you do, it’s only a note or two. Not the entire track. Because if you need it for the entire track, you cannot sing.

@@peevee605 we are talking on two different levels. You’re coming from a talent perspective, where a singer should be able to hop in and hit every note just fine, where your note is correct. Many of those artists came before the time of manual correction with computers. I’m coming from the perspective of a producer and recording engineer, where as I fix the problems I encounter with a vocal with said computers. Not everyone can sing perfectly and with the aid of computers, not many people put forth the effort to perfect their singing abilities when it can be done automatically for them. And yes, it is lazy but effective.

@@NEO-TROPOLIS it is lazy but effective yes. But there is a shift coming also because the tuning has gone out of proportion and practicing a craft got lost to ducklips selfies and social media content making. One of my friends in the business is a hip hop producer. He stopped tuning people and explained to me how he would not have that as his legacy. So when a female singer begged him to tune a very sour high note he simply replied: “If you want that note, sing it.” When she couldn’t, he sent her home. I was just watching a video here with Steve Lukather from Toto amongst others sitting in Sunset Sound Studios talking about how music was made. Given, Toto has also been using the benefit of punching in a note or two or a few bars on an almost perfect take cut live in that room. Heck, they invented AutoTune as a concept. But their work ethic was to nail it in a few takes and that’s where I draw my energy from. It’s two different beasts. The truth might be somewhere in between but my session vocalist is not tuned because he sings in tune and on time. And you would love what he does. It makes your job much easier. To the big masses and in the end of the day, no one gives a shit. Soon we have AI plugins making the very people who can’t sing sound like they sing exactly like Steve Perry, James Hetfield and Freddie Mercury. And that’s when I draw the line. Tech is great when it’s not the goal. Peace and best of luck with your work.

Singer songwriter James Hodder and the is called “One Clean Shot” - due for release early 2023. Produced by yours truly