Podcast
TL;DW: Podcast is a simpler pile of curve-style compressors with hard clipping.
Here’s the followup to PodcastDeluxe, as promised. Podcast is the same technique, multiple compressors that are the precursor to curve and Recurve, but simplified: without the phase rotators, without the full-on attempt to do ‘radio broadcast’ style tricks.
This also means Podcast can have a dry/wet control, because there aren’t any phase rotations delaying things. In fact, Podcast runs no latency and can work very well as a ‘glue’ style buss compressor… so long as you don’t want ‘pumping and swelling’ effects, or sidechainy whooshes of level. That’s because Podcast is still in the curve school of compressors and quits changing levels if the input goes silent.
It also hard-clips the output, making it a kind of ‘safety compressor’: though it’s not clean like a limiter, it’ll strike a balance between dynamics processor and distortion device. You can use it on drums and things meant to be aggressively smashed, or turn it way down and use it as a clean buss comp.
Treat this as another flavor of compressor from Airwindows, and see if it finds uses for you. The greater simplicity of Podcast (much like PodcastDeluxe, heavily updated from the original versions) makes it more adaptable to different purposes, while it remains simple and un-fiddly, delivering its effects with whatever intensity and blend you like. :)
If you like it, ask yourself if you’d have paid $50 for this (or any other recent plugin of mine) if I was selling them in the normal manner. If so, you should feel good about zipping over to Patreon and joining for $50 a year (or upping your amount if you’re really enthusiastic). People doing this have let me do things like buy 1000 tiny LEDs for 2 cents each, and if I can do that then I can work out ways to bring things like hardware kits to you, just as generously. And that sounds like fun!
Can you put out a Soothe or DeHiss next week? I could really use it.
Excelent tool!! , very nice and gentle on the low end, and how it bolds it enough still over compressed music. and also to nthe extreme very fun to play destroying the sound.
i like the sound of your mic a little more, since you has separate it a little bit form the source. anyways you could play better music.
im going to roll a 320 rounds of coil and add 688uf of capacitors to maake my first Butterworth filter diy. see ya!
last tuesday i have been heard your performance and notice this: when you play your highats and reverb, while you are listening full spectrum and dimension, what im hearing of what YouTube left of the high end is all watery sounds lossy sound artifacts of the compression but just on the reverb and highats, makes the performance all muddy, masked and also when you play your guitars, hihgats just doesent add nothing. Most important: that random notes bass , kick, that keys, the wurli, and the guitar ,and you really shines and breath through when you mute that sounds, so you shine. sound more minimalistic and sophisticated and all has sense. is nothing bad or mad at your selection or sounds, or criticizing your pastiche or your approach, i knowyou do it with passion and pput all your effort, in fact, nobody tells you, so you got me here. your parents should be proud of what are you doing and they help you, from there they are now. andd nice show, nice lights.
[…] airwindows Podcast – DON’T SLEEP ON THIS ONE, it’s five curve style compressors in a row with a ADClip circuit at the end. Brings a little dirt in a tasty way. Push boost slider until you hear consistent distortion, then back it off a bit. Blend in to taste. […]