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Howdy all again,
since Mr. Dye himself has responded to the thread, he's fair game for a bit of McDSP 'history'.
Back in 2001 when a digiworld tour was going on, I was demoing our latest arrival Analog Channel. Digi would have some big gun do a workshop during the digiworld, and then folks would shuffle out to the developer stations like the ones we had.
So after the workshops hosted by the Mr. Charles Dye, all these people would jam the McDSP table asking about the 'plug-in with the glue'. I had no idea what they were talking about, and stuggled through an Analog Channel demo with interruptions of 'dude, where's the glue control'.
I made it a point to sit in on one of Charles' demos. It was very good. He was probably one of the first users to 'get it' regarding what AC1 was for, how to use it effectively, and explain it to others. I made some notes, and incorporated some 'glue' into my demos, and boy what a difference that made!
The 'glue' was the effect of having all the various tracks getting processed by AC1. The individual effect on each track was very little, but the collective mix was more, well, analog. The signal peaks were 'held' (can you say 'glue'!) for the extra instant as they hit the saturation region of AC1, and gave the listener an opportunity to better hear that snare hit, kick drum, cymbal crash, etc.
Six years later Analog Channel still goes on. Its still 'got glue' man!!
Colin
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