And my 4th Nebula preset to date is “Draw Her”. This is a compressor preset based on a ’68 model hardware compressor. This compressor preset can be subtle as well as heavily character driven. In its more driven and/or extreme settings, it can round out a signal by smoothing high’s but more importantly add weight and warmth to a signal with a sort of dark personality. This is a unique compressor without threshold control and I implemented a ‘Soft’ or ‘Hard’ knee parameter. The Knee parameter controls the character of the compression. For harder, darker, compacting sounds pull the Knee down. The Drive will control harmonic color, dominating in second even order harmonics which will really add to the ‘meatiness’ cranked up. Also listen to make sure you didn’t go too far!
Below is a link to audio examples of 2 instrument tracks I think this compressor is nice on. It tames really low frequencies/subs and ‘beefs’ up low/low-mid frequencies nicely giving a foward sounding, warmer texture. So one can think snares, toms, guitars, vocals. So I used it on a snare in a drum mix and heavy electric guitar.
Although the intent wasn’t for full program material like a stereo mix I’ve received several success stories of users using this preset on a mix bus so again always experiment for yourself of course and listen. The Drive parameter also adds to the ‘meatiness’ of the compression. The compressor can also be driven harder initially by the ‘Gain’ slider in Nebula just like hardware. Experiment for the best sound.
Oh, and sorry guys I couldn’t really think of a way to create a demo preset of this one because removing anything in this case defeated the purpose of using it.
www.divshare.com/download/10618129-62d]DivShare File – DrawHer Audio Examples.zip
transcendingmusicstudios.com/nebulapg2.html
