Across all my mixes, I doubt any two vocal chains look the same. And what frequencies to adjust, compression to use, de-essing strategy, saturation/distortion (or not at all) changes on every track. I guess that's my real issue with this approach.
I know copying chains is a thing for some people, especially in the Ableton world, but I've never been into it. I have a set of plugins that I use on most everything, but how and in what order changes every time. That's I only have one chain saved in my DAW, which is strictly for mastering. And it only exists to bring all my commonly used plugins in at once with some handy default settings so I'm not working completely from scratch. All but a few plugins are disabled by default and many will get reordered, and many others will get deleted by the end of the process. So by the time I'm done, this chain likely won't resemble any other mastering chain I've used previously.
I don't know anyone who's stuck with the same chain for any extended period of time. By the time you watch whatever video that was recorded a year ago or more, that YouTuber's chain probably changed several times since it was recorded. Bottom line, If there's some lesson to be learned somewhere within someone else's chain, learn whatever that lesson is, add it to your bag of tricks for whenever it's needed, and move on. If there was a cookie cutter chain for everything, people wouldn't need mixers.
I know copying chains is a thing for some people, especially in the Ableton world, but I've never been into it. I have a set of plugins that I use on most everything, but how and in what order changes every time. That's I only have one chain saved in my DAW, which is strictly for mastering. And it only exists to bring all my commonly used plugins in at once with some handy default settings so I'm not working completely from scratch. All but a few plugins are disabled by default and many will get reordered, and many others will get deleted by the end of the process. So by the time I'm done, this chain likely won't resemble any other mastering chain I've used previously.
I don't know anyone who's stuck with the same chain for any extended period of time. By the time you watch whatever video that was recorded a year ago or more, that YouTuber's chain probably changed several times since it was recorded. Bottom line, If there's some lesson to be learned somewhere within someone else's chain, learn whatever that lesson is, add it to your bag of tricks for whenever it's needed, and move on. If there was a cookie cutter chain for everything, people wouldn't need mixers.
Statistics: Posted by billinder33 — Sun Oct 20, 2024 4:19 am