Wednesday, Wednesday

So, tonight will be moving on two mixes for Padraig (myspace and band name undefined at this point) from last night. Both are at about the halfway stage, just in time to start throwing some tracks into my new reverb..
I spent the last few weeks demoing a few reverb plugins - Breverb, IK Classic Studio Reverb and Sonnox Reverb. I was looking for a solid plate verb, mostly. It came down to CSR vs. the Sonnox - comparing the CSR Plate to the Sonnox's plate preset gave pretty much the same results, so the Sonnox won out on being a lot more versatile. Their spring verb preset was pretty handy on a guitar track too, funnily enough.
Thanks to the 20% discount for buying a pair, I gave High Profile Audio a shout.. and grabbed the Sonnox EQ too, which is a lovelynice EQ if you're looking.
I've gotten a couple of plugins off these guys recently, and their prices are always good.

Padraig had noticed a change in the vocal sound when I was demoing the Sonnox verb - on a lot of his stuff (kinda 80's tinged) I was using Echoboy on short, reverby settings and that worked great (for drums too), but for some of the tunes a longer plate sound sat the vocal into the mix much better.
I'm hoping to get at least one of the tunes to the show-and-tell stage of mix (as in, the point where I give Padraig a shout for input) before the Milan-Arsenal game tonight.

I'll also be checking the files Nick from Rifle Fire Rifle sent over.. we recorded a bunch of guitars, melodica and vocals on Sunday, but his hard drive had a shit fit, so it remains to be seen wether the files retained their timestamps or track names.
If they didn't, it'll be a long process of trying to find the right takes and manually slipping them in to the right spot on the timeline. Argh. Pass the beer.

Speaking of which, it'll be Flensburger Gold tonight for the match..