Also did a lot of clip gain on some things. Should also note that I did fader rides with Waverider, pretty much in its default settings where it's boosting low volume and cutting high volume stuff. It's been a couple years but last time I used it, I thought it sounded pretty close to the CLA76 at times. BF76 was a lot better than I thought it would be. Although a lot of the time I will use the Blue CLA76 for backing vocals instead of black to give it some more excitement. Then I did some reading and end up using 20:1 with both things at 7 most of the time. My go to setting used to be 4:1 with the attack at 1 and release at 7. PSP's Fetpressor is another I need to try. The Slate versions weren't too bad but haven't tried them in a long time. Stillwell Rocket is kinda in the same boat, but a little too clean. It was pretty decent but not exactly what I wanted.

The CLA76 just seems more ballsy and smooth compared to the others. IK Black76 is not a favorite and that isn't changing now. The AnalogObsession Fetish was pretty different too. I've always preferred the CLA76 Black over everything else. I remembered that Fleming Rassmussen had said he ran the Metallica vocals into an 1176 and then to tape, so that's where I got the idea to try that. It was bumping up some bassy frequencies that were hard to work with.

Before I almost always ran a CLA76 into a CLA2A. The only thing on the busses aside from bx_console are HG-2 Black Box and Vertigo VSC-2. Generally I'm turning off the mic pre and tolerance buttons and turning the record dial to about 3 o'clock. I find that putting a compressor before TapeDesk is better.

All analog saturation plugins removed except Tapedesk on tracks not recorded with tape, no busses. The redesign is basically just using bx_console on everything with the LPF turned off, not much of its compression, channel 1 or 1-2 on everything with the occasional exception, noise on, digital for everything except busses, stereo instrument tracks, and some pre-mixed instrumentals, some slight eq moves, and no gates. I've redone my usual workflow again and thought I'd bring up 1176 usage.

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