How many plugins on avg do you use per track in a mix?

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How many plugins per track on avg?

  • I don't need no stinkin plugins! OUTBOARD!!!!!!!

    Votes: 17 7.9%

  • 1-4

    Votes: 180 83.7%

  • 5-9

    Votes: 12 5.6%

  • 10-You mean NOT counting my 12 UAD cards?

    Votes: 6 2.8%
  • Total voters
    215
Massive Master said:
I'm not talking about EQ... Although if *every track* needed EQ'ing, I'd say the same thing.
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i dont know about that, if you read about springsteens "the river" album, the power station had like 24 pultec eq's they used almost all .this is if we count eq. as plugins
 
I have been using less plugins lately due to using better musicians.
If I use local non-pro musicians I have to use more plugins on the percusions to get the sound I want.

Usually I would use just the same eq plugin on every track even though I would not tweak it and compression on certain things and the rest I rely on automation.

Eric M.

www.paristudio.org
 
Cazzbar said:
I hear people 'rolling off' bass on most tracks, sounds like a good idea if it's not required... but then I can't help but think how did that unwanted bass get there in the first place!
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mshilarious said:
Subharmonic content has a lot of potential sources, especially for a homereccer. Somebody brushes the body of their instrument, moves in their chair, a bit of computer fan noise, 60Hz hum . . .
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I'd like to add to this that any digital instrument (synths and samplers, specially hardware) that alias heavily, have a tendency to produce a lot of subharmonics due to frequency foldback. Similar situation may arise during AM, RM and FM. I've seen my K2600 put out stuff well below 8Hz due to aliasing, so nowdays I either highpass that stuff either right on the instrument itself, or if not possible there (which admittedly is extremely rare), during mixing.
 
5-9, and on ambient projects... sometimes 12 - 14

I like my plugins! haha Then again, my production style is more of the shitloads of layers and textures and triple quadruple tracks minim. You know, 5 snare drums layered on top of each other, 3 kick drums.. about the only thing I don't double track are bass guitar and vocals lol :) I'm insane.
 
Old thread bump, but still relevant.

I use Cubase LE, so I'm limited to 2 per track and 4 sends. Regardless, that's all you should really need to be honest. For drums, I just use Compression and the built-in EQ, which leaves one spot open that could be used for a better EQ plug-in should I find one. Vocals I might need more than two, since I Compress and Delay most my vocals and I might need something else (Autotune, reverb, etc.)
 
i eq almost every track.

and i'll have a reverb plugin sitting in my bus's and i'll run a little of each track to it.

compression on the main vocal, never acoustic guitar, sometimes on strings.
 
I usually use compression,EQ,Reverb and sometimes delay...not on everything however these are the 4 I use most.

i voted 1-4 plugins per track.
 
Massive Master said:
Although if *every track* needed EQ'ing, I'd say the same thing.
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I suppose you're saying that during the mix if you're still EQ'ing every track then something was wrong during the tracking process? I'm not sure i see the difference between tracking with EQ and applying EQ at the end process...


But i'd be surprised if more than a handful of tracks get thru the tracking and mixing process with no EQ whatsoever..
 
I'd say about 50% of my tracks I use none, 30% I use 1, and the other 20% I use 2 or 3. Very rarely if ever use more than 3.
 
I think it just more or less depends on the way I want something to sound on a song. After running guitars through pre's and my board, I RARELY even compress it or EQ it (just the DAW track EQ, not a plugin). Kick, though, I usually have 2-3 kick tracks and I compress/limit/EQ them all differently to get a good sounding kick. I usually reverb my snare a bit, too. Other than that, I don't really use plug-ins. I might throw in the occasional bus compressor or EQ, though :cool: just because I can!
 
Uh oh......

5 + every track + plus extra herbs and spices ontop of that. and i disagree about EQ on every track

possibly wait let me go count a song...... sorry i stopped counting at 60. yes 60+ plugins every one a little gem.

unless of course you can produce the absolute perfect track in signal, if you can produce the *ding* perfect track in signal then i salute you and will give a shiny new donkey for your trouble, until then…I keep the Donkey and use Eq and a number of tools to produce the and manipulate the original signal to how i believe it needs to be.

there is nothing "illegal" about this, the original signal is always present one is just re-interpreting it.


I guess it's all about, how you go about it isn't it..... I'm producing "art" (some would say the only "art" i'm good at is bullshit artist) not recording "live" music, they are two different things. recording live, a compressor, verb , Eq mics and your done.
 
sorry what i meant

is i use at least EQ on every track. every time.

except on Sundays and every third Wednesday, in a leap year, if following the Chinese calander, but that probably goes without saying?
 
60 is about the amount of plugs I try to use on every song, just out principal!

No, really, it depends on what needs to be done to the sounds, I guess. I think the most I've ever used was 52, with a few effects tracks recorded along with everything else. This song had 43 tracks on it, not including busses or effects tracks.


Ben
 
different for me. vocals eq comp reverb delay de-ess autotune fattening digital stereo sometimes. everything else 2-4
 
I voted for 1-4 but I tried to avoid them as much as possible! Apart from my bus track (vocals, drums...) where I can add 4 or more plugins...
 
I usually use 4 to 6 plugins on the entire song. If it's 8 tracks or 32 its about the same. I move mics rather then grab eq. Most of my plugins I use is bus compression reverbs and delays etc. I almost always use a bus compressor on the drums and a compressor eq and verb on the vocal the eq is used to add "air" since pro tools sucks the living crap out of any air you might try an put in the track
 
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