Home Recording Made Easy Reviews the Creme (Video)
- 28.09.2018
- Victor Weiss
- Creme
- Review
Home Recording Made Easy - the name says it. David Vignola's YouTube channel provides coaching and training for the aspiring musician and sound engineers. The Creme fits perfectly with it, because it makes it amazingly easy to fine tune a truly professional sounding mix. David also shows in his review how to integrate the Creme into your mix setup.
That's what David says about Creme:
“Great Compressor and EQ, i love it, it's staying right there in my rack, it's not going back. I really really enjoy it!"
"It definitely tightens things up, especially the low end. The Compressor is very versatile [...] it never sounds bad. It adds just enough colour, it adds just enough low end and top end [...] it's like it adds that extra 10-15% on top of the mix where it just sounds more finished. That's what i love about the Creme!” - David Vignola
What Happens in the Video
Dave Vignola takes a good 20 minutes. First he goes over the front panel knob by knob – bypass, side-chain low cut (60/120 Hz/full), the EQ-before/after-compressor switch, low boost 20–200 Hz and high boost 10–24 kHz with up to 5 dB each, attack 0.1–30 ms, release up to 1.2 s or auto, ratio 1.5 to 10:1 – and points out that everything is stepped or detented and can therefore be recalled exactly. Then he shows the routing many viewers ask about: the mix leaves the interface on two line outputs (in his case a Universal Audio Apollo 8p, outputs 7/8), goes into the Creme and comes back into the DAW (Studio One) on two inputs (5/6) – the DAW master bus then carries no EQ and no compressor, the Creme takes that over. On a finished R&B mix he demonstrates the settings he mixes into: 2–3 dB low boost at 60 Hz, 3–4 dB highs at 12 kHz, ratio 2:1, fast attack and fast release, 2–3 dB of gain reduction, EQ before the compressor.
More Excerpts from the Review
"What I love about the Creme on this EQ [...] is that you could turn up the top end quite a bit, you could boost it a full 5 dB and it doesn't get harsh, it just gets nice and sparkly." – Dave Vignola, video, July 2018
"It's warm but it sounds open at the same time, so the EQ section of the Creme is super, super musical." – Dave Vignola, video, July 2018
"When I mix this song I mix into this. So typically what I would do is I set this up [...] at the settings you see now [...] and I kind of mix into it, as opposed to just dropping it on after the mix." – Dave Vignola, video, July 2018
On price, in his words: "super super affordable for what you're getting" – and he recommends our 14-day trial in the video himself.
What the Creme Is – and Why It Sits on the Mix Bus
The Creme is our bus compressor and mastering equalizer: a passive Pultec-style EQ and an SSL-style VCA bus compressor in one 2U unit. The order is switchable – EQ before the compressor or compressor before the EQ. On the mix bus the compressor pulls the separate parts into one whole, almost inaudibly at a 1.5:1 ratio, with a rhythmic signature of its own at higher ratios and faster timing; a side-chain filter keeps frequencies below 60 or 120 Hz out of the control circuit. The EQ offers a bass boost between 20 and 200 Hz and a high boost between 10 and 24 kHz, each 0–5 dB, every value on a rotary switch – which is why every setting is exactly reproducible. If you want plug-in recall, the Creme RC with motorized pots has it: Amazona.de reviews our Creme RC.
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Home Recording Made Easy online: https://www.homerecordingmadeeasy.com/
Related: Home Recording Made Easy: Summing with the TSM · Mixdown Online (Chris Selim) Reviews the Creme · Mixing and Mastering with a Little Creme
