McDSP Offers Processing For Every Need
McDSP's award-winning ML4000 mastering limiter is a powerful tool to have in any studio, be it at home or a professional sound stage. With eight years of free updates, it's easy to see why this powerful plug-in is quickly becoming an industry favorite.
Colin McDowell, McDSP's lead engineer talks to Gearwire about the powerful plug-in and offers insight into it's application. Combined with a little nostalgia for classic analog gear, Colin relates why McDSP was created and the scope of its application. Stay tuned for part two where he demos the ML4000 with Gearwire's Bill Holland.
BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. We’re live in New York at Fall AES 2007, and I’m here with Colin McDowell.
COLIN MCDOWELL: Howdy! Colin McDowell for McDSP. We’re here showing plugins for Pro Tools, plugins like limiters, EQs, compressors, analog channel tape simulators, all that stuff that you really want with your Pro Tools but didn’t know you needed! But that’s why we’re here to tell you.
BILL HOLLAND: And this is all really cool. And not only that, it has great graphic design, but what does it sound like? What does this whole thing do for me in Pro Tools? What’s my advantage to picking this guy up?
COLIN MCDOWELL: Okay. Great question. A long time ago, maybe I was a mixing engineer/audio person too, and I was always going, “Wow! This is terrible! I can’t afford a Neve sidecar. I want all that boutique outboard gear that I couldn’t possibly afford unless I sell one of my kids.” But that wasn’t an option so I said, “You know, I’m kind of good with the computer thing. Maybe I’ll write some plugins,” plugins that not only sound like all that vintage analog stuff that we love, covet, and would sell our grandmother for but also that has the flexibility of software. You know, software? You can get like free updates at McDSP, eight years of free updates because I’m a nut job. Anyway, but the flexibility of software gives you the ability from like say oh a dbx 165 compressor until like, oh I don't know, a Fairchild 670 all in one morph control movement.
“Wow! Why would I ever want that?” Well, suppose, you know, you want that gentle analog compressor for the verses but have that really aggressive compressor for the choruses and the guy really loses it as much as shouting out to his girlfriend, hey that’s McDSP. So, digital emulations, flexibility of software, and the color green.
BILL HOLLAND: Awesome. Definitely the color green. And this limiter looks pretty awesome too. I can’t wait to hear it in action, but thank you for showing it off though. I appreciate it.
COLIN MCDOWELL: Thanks for having me. Rock on with your bad cells.
BILL HOLLAND: I’m Bill Holland for Gearwire.Com. We will be back for more from Fall AES 2007.
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