anyone still using digital fishphones plugs?

jrsgodfrey · Post by **jrsgodfrey** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:50 pm

Jason,

I had the stereo only deal in DP. When I changed to Tracktion, I got mono back.

I emailed them (him) at the time, but never heard back.

I'm still running on a G3!

sad iron · Post by **sad iron** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:01 pm

jrsgodfrey wrote:Jason,

I had the stereo only deal in DP. When I changed to Tracktion, I got mono back.

Argh! I'm using DP as well. I don't feel like migrating. I have such a hard time hearing plugin comps I have been looking forward to something I'd used and liked before.

How do you like Traktion vs. DP? I have always liked DP for how well it works like a real-world studio environment.

Was it easy to transfer existing stuff over?

MASSIVE Mastering · Post by **MASSIVE Mastering** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:32 pm

SpitFish is my "go to" de-esser.

Don't get me wrong - I hate using de-essers at this stage. But out of all the de-essers I've tried, SpitFish was the least obnoxious and the most controlled of the bunch.

scott macdonald · Post by **scott macdonald** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:13 pm

Regarding the Intel Mac thing, I got the Fishphones plugs to work on my Macbook Pro in Tracktion 2, but they won't work on Tracktion 3, which is the new Intel-native version. It's a faster and better program, but I really would like my plugins back.

-scott

river · Post by **river** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:24 pm

I use Blockfish religiously as a drum mix compressor. I love the different sounds it's capable of producing by tweaking the parameters behind the face, and by virtue of the vca or opto settings. Don't even get e started on the complex mode........it's like channeling John Bonham.

Rigsby · Post by **Rigsby** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:41 am

DryCounty wrote:
roscoenyc wrote:I used to love Blockfish!

I got a new home rig recently (intel iMac 24) and I can't get it to work on this thing?
Is there something missing?
It will not work on the Intel macs at all ... hence my sticking with a G5.

It totally works on Intel macs, i'm using blockfish on my intel mac mini.

I love blockfish on bass especially

teamdresch · Post by **teamdresch** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:56 am

I use Blockfish just for the saturation sometimes.
It can give a sound that 'something missing'.
Last time out, it was on acoustic guitar.

The compressor is cool too, but one of those things that works well or not at all I reckon.

jrsgodfrey · Post by **jrsgodfrey** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:09 am

Jason,

DP was "too much" for me. I just want a vitual tape machine, and some editing and basic mixing. Tracktion fits the bill, though it takes some getting used to. I can also get more out of my anemic G3 w/ it. But I'm Mac Book bound...

Tracktion 3 looks good, but I want less not more features, so I think I'll stick w/ 2.

From this thread, seems the intelMac/fishphones work/no work thing is program, not hardware, dependant.

I just rendered the DP tracks I needed one at a time -- it wasn't that much stuff. If you had a lot it would be a drag.

DryCounty · Post by **DryCounty** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:22 am

Wow I had no idea, I always thought that non-intel VSTs and AUs wouldn't work on the new Macs. After all, there was a load of uproar when PSP kept delaying a universal AU of Vintage Warmer ...

BTW, are we talking AU or VST being used here?

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:35 am

I love Blockfish.... it is one of my favorite software comps.... i love using it across a buss, like a background vocal submix from Logic before it hits the converters and comes to 2 channels of the board. before I had much in the way of outboard comps, i would occasionally use it to destroy room mics...

john

Rigsby · Post by **Rigsby** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:27 am

DryCounty wrote:Wow I had no idea, I always thought that non-intel VSTs and AUs wouldn't work on the new Macs. After all, there was a load of uproar when PSP kept delaying a universal AU of Vintage Warmer ...

BTW, are we talking AU or VST being used here?

VST, i actually didn't know that blockfish was available as an AU.

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:08 pm

river wrote: Don't even get e started on the complex mode........it's like channeling John Bonham.

YES.

blockfish on room mics is just entertaining as hell. i love it. i don't know what 'complex' actually does, but it really is something. i throw that on for playback all the time now. drummers always get all big-eyed, it's funny.

usually i go OTB for compression as i have a few nice analog things, but if i'm just doing something quick i'll just use the blockfish and it always works great. and there's been a few final mixes where i've ended up using that on the room mics instead of 5 grand worth of analog comps. not bad.

and i've used the dominion in mastering a few times when i've gotten stuff that already super crushed...it can help at least give the illusion that there's some attack left on anything...

darjama · Post by **darjama** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:26 pm

For those that don't know, Sascha, the developer of digitalfishphones, is now working on Samplitude. He's done some cool plugins for them that can now also be purchase separately:

http://www.samplitude.com/eng/vst/uebersicht.html

A couple of these are suped up versions of older plugins like dominion and endorphin, others are all new.

MASSIVE Mastering · Post by **MASSIVE Mastering** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:39 pm

And he has totally outdone himself once again.

epic problem · Post by **epic problem** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:02 pm

I actually have Blockfish on the snare, kick, and mono OH on the track I just posted in this thread. I've got zero outboard anything, so this plug saves my life mixing in der boxen.

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