PurestConsole2
TL;DW: PurestConsole2 is the anti-aliasing version of PurestConsole, with special brightness and clarity!
Hi! My video is showing off the plugin I’ve been coding on Monday livestreams, but it’s not the new plugin for the week! It’s for next week.
What’s this week is… firstly a hell of a lot of studio upgrades, new music, better video support thanks to a Razer HDMI capture box and a new custom LUT just for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4k cameras, did I mention new music? I was composing and tracking it all day or at least since 3. Actually kind of a lot to get done in six hours.
But it was all because I needed to show off the new plugin… or plugins. Meet PurestConsole2.
This serves a special purpose in modern Airwindows Console mixes. I’ve got Console7, which gives you all the glue you could want, creates solidity and the sense of an analog mixing desk (all the more if you use Console7Cascade, which I’m avoiding for this track and this video). But Console7 does its aliasing prevention by rolling off right at 20k, which helps the sense of glue but steps on some of the super-sparkly treble you sometimes get in modern mixes. It’s set up to do it really gracefully, but some have noticed a diminishing of super-glittery highs.
PurestConsole was always the ‘colorless, transparent’ take on any Console system, but with PurestConsole2 we’re stepping just a bit away from that, to serve as a complement to Console7. PurestConsole2 does the same ‘filter the super-highs to prevent aliasing’ thing that Console7 does. BUT, not quite the same. It starts higher (run it at 44 or 48k and it won’t even attempt to filter) to extend to 30k before filtering. But then it filters SHARPER… to roll off quicker. And in doing that, it gives you a presence peak beyond hearing. Not a huge one, but it’s there: it’s also on the end of the system, not (like Console7) going into the system. So PurestConsole2 gives you a sprinkling of treble glitter even while it rolls off the aliasing-prone frequencies more effectively.
The end result is the same kind of analog warmth… except it’s a cool, airy clarity that resolves absolutely EVERYTHING. If you’re shooting for super-clear this is the one you want. And since Console mixes can drive submixes which then use another Console system to sum the stems to the 2-buss… you can sneak it in on your harmony vocal beds, or orchestral stems, or you could use Console7 for everything and then sum only the stems to the 2-buss using PurestConsole2. Instead of mixing and matching within the summing busses, design your mix structure by figuring out where you want analog fatness and slam, and where you want clarity and resolution.
All this is supported by Patreon. I’m given to understand the guy I revisited Srsly for is happy, and I bet people are going to like next week’s reverb, and here’s a different style of super-good-sounding digital mix buss this week. I admit I have porting to the new M1 Macs to do, and now that I’ve cleared a bunch of this workload hopefully I can get on that as well. Remember it’s just me here, and I also have to shovel my own snow and carry my own firewood :) but, these days I can afford the firewood, and indeed the M1 Macbook Pro, and things are looking good. Hope you like PurestConsole2, those of you who’re Airwindows Console fans.
the best plugin I found for mix and mastering and the best tools for sound design absolutely fantastic
Hello Chris, Im a Console7 user and thinking of sneaking Purest in my mixing template.
is PurestConsole2Channel designed and calibrated to work only with PurestConsole2Bus or can it work with Console7Bus? (Same with Console7Channel, can it mix into a PurestConsole2Bus?). Thank you and keep up the great work!
where can you download and purchase console2?
Hi Chris, I’m loving all of your ideas for the Console Plug-Ins and am very happy about PurestConsole2 :)
My question is about something i read about today on reddit. There is a company which states that they are able to get the GPU to process your Plug-Ins needs, and i think they use the VST3 framework if I’m not mistaken. For reference I’ll post a link here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/lw85ko/gpu_audio_processing_on_the_way_signing_up_beta/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
My question is if this is something that Airwindows Plug-Ins would profit from, or why it maybe wouldn’t be that big of a change, or maybe even why it’s worse than processing on the CPU
how fo you install your plugins om windows great that you ,ake these plugsins for us poor guys pls send me your patreon i would definately like to make a donation
Hello, thanks for offering this plugin. is there anything else this plugin is doing besides adding a harmonic as a fifth, which what I saw using a test tone in a spectrogram?
Actually turning up the gain, I see a second harmonic appearing.
Him Chris, your bass channel is in solo safe mode. ctr klick the solo button, it’ll go away.