Brian Trifon (Trifonic) shares his approach to adding ‘character’ to digital sounds.
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something to think about
You have to find your own way to learn…..There’s no shortcut.
— Miles Davis
I’m no accident……You have to practice and you have to study.

Now can we get a tutorial on removing character from analog sounds, using only analog gear?
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I’ve got like 666 different saturation tools to choose from in Windows… at least 500 of them being freeware. All you really need is knowledge to get your mixes sound nice and round, and lots of patience choosing the right tools for that. Oh, and you do need developers doing plugins for the platform of your choice, too. that’s one of the reasons I will never go OS-X, the same reason why I never went Linux even though I love Linux and I’d be all over it if there were more good plugins for it.
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Why do you have so many plugins? Surely it would be better to have a smaller set and get to know them inside out?
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…and you managed to turn this into win vs osx nonsense.
i use both and please do name, say, 20 win exclusive saturation plugins.(lets ignore the quality aspect even)
the topic deals with saturation. you put forth an non existent argument and make a useless point.
osx, win or fukall. tool is a tool.
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dux more like dix
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Really cool.
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thats odd… the digital sounds i use already have character
I WIN!
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U TROLL!
go home & grow up.
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Don’t feed the troll.
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Oh cool, he’s back. I liked watching his production tips/ audio manipulation vids way back when. New album’s a bit hit and miss though.
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