When I first tried out Nebula I throught it was crap and discarded it within an hour of use. There's no such thing as "better than", it's all subjective.īTW - I mean no offense to anyone out there who prefers Nebula over VCC, Plec's reply has been one of the most "friendly" replies about VCC (when looking at other message boards' replies about this!)Probably a bit more "friendly" because I'm not that biased. Some people are prone to really fancy programmer talk when it comes to emulations, for me that sort of thing gives me a headache.ĥ. The Nebula interface isn't pleasing to look at and does not appear to be intuitive.Ĥ. All examples I've heard of the VCC "round off" the highs in a way that I recall analog boards doing.ģ. When hearing the examples posted on GS, to my ears, the Nebula mixes still have that "digital" sound especially in the higher frequencies (around 11 - 14k). No post about the VCC anywhere on the internet lacks a Nebula user saying that Nebula is better.Ģ. I can only speak for myself, but some observations regarding VCC vs. The only programs you will run in real-time then are the bus, fx return and mixbus programs, which most computers today are able to handle.
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The way to use Alex B's consoles sensibly is to use the line channel programs as an offline bounce (this is very simple in Cubase but more complicated in other hosts apparently) so you're not using them as real-time effects. But as I said IMO, the quality, even not a world of a difference goes to Nebula.
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Plus, the Alex B consoles put a much heavier strain on the CPU plus extreme memory usage so there is also a win for VCC. Nebula is made to fit whatever type of model anyone would care to model so the GUI and usability is very very unintuitive. But am wondering to get the AlexB stuff to have more options.Where VCC wins out with no contest against Nebula is the usability of it.
How do you use the nebula AlexB consoles? Do you put one on each channel like the VCC? (It's not an attack, I also own Nebula, but was never able to use many instances.) I ended up using the US emulation on the mix bus, I had another instance of the Brit but it then sounded too heavy and I was going to throw a Cambridge to filter out some of it when I thought "Let me see what the US does" and BANG, nice punch without too much bump in the low end, loving this thing!Thanks for the reply! I was reading through a JJP mix article and I saw him mention the differences b/w patching in before and after and why he does one or the other at some points.
I thought it made a little bit of a difference in the behavior of the comp, which is cool because it actually makes a difference in how you place the VCC in your sessions!Īnother mix I'm working on, I'm liking the T emulation on the vocals bus (PTLE 8 crashed on me once when switching to the 4k, but it hasn't crashed since). I'm really liking the first scenario especially when using the UAD 1073s, but on a mix I did a couple of days ago, I used the VCC after an 1176 (to simulate the 1176 being inserted on the channel). I crashed my session the other night (PT 8.0.4) by simply switching console types on one channel - I need to autosave man.So if you put the VCC as the first effect on your inserts, it's like emulating a console followed by your EQs/Dynamic sections (putting it at the end simulates you using inserts on the console). Steering clear of the T chann until they say it's bug free. But I guess then it must be close to impossible beating the Nebula approach.Īlso, have you found better results with them at the start of a channel versus the end, or do you do both? Mix and match maybe? I've been trying a few of these, and I seem to like the Brit N for mixbuss (low/mid loveliness), and 4K for vocal channels (high taming that I like). It sounds very good compared to other saturators out there and I know they've worked sooooo hard on the algorithms.
It sounds like I'm knocking Slate now, but I'm not. Here I noticed even more of that processed quality compared to Alex B which just sounds effortless and natural in comparison.
Comparing the Neve consoles was an even bigger win for Alex B since it's a way more colored console than the SSL it would be harder to get it right I guess. When comparing the VCC 4k with the Alex B CLC you can hear that they're going for the same thing but IMO the VCC adds that "processed" sound that in my world sounds "digital". What is great about Nebula, or at least the Alex B and CDSoundmasters R2R libraries, is that they don't make the audio sound unnaturally processed. Mind you, I'm using the Alex B consoles together with Nebula 3 a lot but I'd very much appreciate a simpler way of achieving the same effect which the VCC would offer with it's simple GUI and streamlined processing.īut to put it very simple. I've been meaning to try this out for some time now, so today finally I gave it a go.