Addendum

Furtherfluffy, I just straight-up dig Airwindows. I mean, Chris Johnson? He's just very cool. He tends to work in Reaper I believe. Now, I'm not sure I'm going to use the Console plugin. But it's still neeto. I'm doing some little experiments.

Console X controller. 

And another thing super-cool is that there's a piece of hardware that's a controller specific to the Airwindows ConsoleX plugin made by an Argentine company called Yaeltex. It's less than $900! They also make a bunch of other controllers and you can order a custom controller for whatever you want.

But another thing is that there are some really amazing plugins like reverbs and EQ's and very weird stuff, some of which sounds really good-grief amazing. 

 Here's a video demo of ConsoleX:

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There are a bunch of "console" emulations which are plug-ins for DAWs (digital audio workstations). The last one I tried was the Waves emulation and I felt that all it did was collapse the stereo field. Which, you know, is sort of the opposite of what they're reputed to do. 

Since forever in the olden days there has been the idea that the 2-mix buss on a classic Neve somehow magically sounds fantastic. But it's very very hard to really A/B test an ITB (in the box) mix vs one that's been done on a big analog mixer, or through an analog "summing mixer." Are they actually things? Historically the answer has been "no." 

But. I've been experimenting. 

Airwindows Console is free and open-source. It's a console plugin, but Airwindows is very low in resource consumption. There are hundreds of plugins that have absurdly simple interfaces but my first set of tests indicates they sound excellent. 

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Surge XT is a free and open source hybrid synthesizer plugin. I haven't tried it yet.

Auto EQ ostensibly gives you EQ suggestions for headphones. 

Analog Obsession is another maker of "donationware" plugins which are kinda cool. 

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1. Place EveryConsole Plugin as the first plugin on any of my mixing channels(not busses outside of the master) and set it to console0 channel mode,

2. Place EveryConsole Plugin as the last plugin on the master bus, before the limiter, on console0 bus mode,

3. And of course, not touch any of the faders in the DAW.

In any case, I'm experimenting with the Analog Obsession "Konsol" plugin on the opera. I'm using the "black" switch with the transformer on. Do the mixes seem "wider"? Maybe. The null tests show a couple odd things -- one is that for some reason the exports from Samplitude are not sample identical. By that I mean the Konsole version seems to start a few sample later than w/o Konsol. 

The other is that I do get a bunch of spacious reverb when just listening to the null. Is that from the fact that reverbs and other time-based effects cannot null? Maybe. I could pre-render all tracks with reverb first and do tests that way. Who knows? Maybe. 

One problem with these plugins is that they really require using the plugin's own faders for mixing. That's kind of annoying. I've been using Konsol without using the input/output knobs on it. It doesn't null (I just tested without time domain effects.) So it must be something. Is it anything... good? 

Right now? No. Just from listening it feels like the ITB version sounds the best. So I dunno. 

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Our feature, The Drowned Girl, hasn't gotten into any film festivals. And it's not like we only submitted to Cannes and Sundance or some such, but to festivals which we thought would be more interested in movies about fascist collaboration. 

So we're going to experiment with Filmhub. No, we don't expect to make any money or anything, we just want the movie out there.

Annalisa Loeffler as The Drowned Girl.

Neural Amp Modeler is an open-source, well, amp modeler. 

The Analog Obsession KONSOL is a freeware/donationware console emulator.