Waves Restoration Bundle

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I've taken a loop from the track 'My Love' by Pleasure and compared the loop before restoring it using the X-Click, X-Crackle & X-Noise plugins by waves. 

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Result after messing around with a couple plugins.  Most importantly, there's PanMan by Soundtoys, which is panning the sound on stereo in a certain way, and there is Soundtoy's Crystalizer, which is generating the most noticeable effect on the mix.  I also used Kramer Master Tape by waves in an attempt to give the sound some subtle depth and warmth.

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Experimenting with Soundtoys and Waves plugins on 2 separate samples plus drums I imported from Addictive Drums. 

Observations 'Nile River Drum'

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Comparison before and after.  My effects processing chain as follows:

Wave's X-Click, X-Crackle, X-Noise, API-560 EQ, One Knob Phatter, One Knob Wetter & Soundtoy's Decapitator

Larry Levan's take on vinyl collecting!

Just found out about this one! If true, it really is amazing!!

 

 

From Ministry of Sound founder Justin Berkmann:

 

"Well, there was never a quiet moment when he was around, let's face it. He was quite a character. There's no question that when he arrived in the airport with no records, it was a rather interesting to figure out what he was going to play. No, he didn't have any. He just didn't have any. He didn't own any records. He would sell them on a regular basis. Apparently friends of his would be going to car-boot [rummage] sales and find records that were his and go around and give them back to him and he would sell them again. He didn't have any particular connection or any emotional attachment to his vinyl, and to be honest, having gone through that 24 hours with him, it's understandable. He didn't really need it. He had maybe gone beyond that point where he didn't need any connection to the music, he could just create it through being Larry, I guess."