Hi Folks,
So I’ve decided to remove the computer from my music’s equation, wich is not a big deal cause now I only use it as a recorder plus few plugins on the master bus.
Usually I put a saturation and/or a tape compression plugin on the master, drived quite heavily to give a lot of grit and to obviously glue the things together.
As you might guess, I’ll now look at a hardware solution to cover this previous software ground.
Right now I’m thinking about a Heat (obviously) or a combo Erica FusionBox/Strymon Deco.
First thing first, I’m sure the Heat will cover all my master enhancer/saturator needs, but what about the Deco. Is it easy to get a nice compressed and saturated master with it ?
I know there is not as much possibility as with the Heat, but if it can enhance the mix just enough and give a nice amount of dirt I guess it will be alright.
Secondly, I would like to do more than just master saturation/glue. That’s why I’m considering a Deco + a Fusionbox, the erica’s pedal can handle the crazyness while the Deco is saturating everybody.
With the Heat, I’ve got the impression that this box alone can do both at the same time. You know, enhance the mix, and while activating an lfo or playing with the filter, introducing some crazyness.
As far has I heard, the Fusion (if we forget the delay/flanger thing) seems to be more in my alley. For example, do you think the heat can react like this :
On this demo there is a huge distorted feedback after the kicks. Does the heat can generate those heavy feedbacked stuff ?
At a point I’ll probably test all this box by my self but I first would like to have your input on this.
Does some of you had the chance to compare a Deco and a Heat, or a FusionBox and a Heat ?