hey what's going on out there i'm sean divine hope you all are doing well what you just heard
is the all-new lofi suite plug-in from waves it's called retro fi i did receive this in advance for
testing purposes i've been very inspired with the results i'm getting here i'm going to show you a
number of different uses that i have here for it hopefully get your wheels turning give you some
ideas for your own mixes your own productions and then i'm also going to let you download all
of the presets that i created here this plugin imparts a very interesting vintage character
and if you're looking for that grungy just less than perfect but really intriguing sort of tone
then this is the plugin for you let's play back this guitar dry and then i'll activate
retro fi and we'll talk about the different modules and settings that we have available
so the first module we have is the device and this is the pre-processing or just the
core tone that you're going to get before we start sending it through
a lot of these other processes by changing this we get some different things that are going on behind
the scenes in terms of an eq curve we also get some different dynamics processing there
and will really change the sound and then we can utilize the styler to set kind of a time period so
of course you know from the 50s up to the 80s we had a very different sonic quality to recordings
and so these are going to give you more of that true to time sort of sound here
moving over we have a squash control so we can heavily compress our sound
and then below this we have a ringer which is a ring modulation i've found that just
using it very minimally can give you that wobbly sort of effect so let's turn that on
next up we have the space module which is a combination
of an echo processor as well as a reverb that can utilize both a spring or a plate
and it can also get up to 20 seconds let's disable this whole preset on this synth
moving over to the noise module this beat was started with a very simple drum loop
once we activate retro fi and the noise module we can utilize these different
noises all these different kind of oscillators for the noise to either be triggered by a duck
meaning that once we get above the threshold it will actually duck the sound or a gate
once the sound increases according to the threshold that noise is also going
to increase as well and it gives you some very interesting textures and results for your loops
the mechanics control is essentially a wow and flutter analog tape processing and you get
two independent wow controls wobble controls and speed controls and you can combine these
and run them simultaneously to get a very very interesting sort of drift
popular sound in today's productions and the mechanics module makes that extremely easy to
dial in i can tell you some of the things that i've done to achieve this in the past
have taken a tremendously long time but here with this very easy to do and you also get a very
musical result that will fit in the context of the mix now finally at the bottom of the interface we
have both a high pass filter as well as a low pass filter so we can combine those together
and then we also have a mono control which is really useful if you have a sound that you just
want to really narrow things out give it more of that vintage mono sound we can do that very easily
let's take a listen to a couple of bass elements which you may not think that
this would be the kind of thing you would want to apply space and some of these other processes but
i've been getting some cool results with it for example here with an 808 let's just disable for
now and then we'll listen to it with this filth 808 preset
and with
moving over to our other baseline just kind of a moog style synth bass
with the noise mod and the device you know we get a lot more aggressive
sound we get a bit of a growl and something that's going to stand out in the mix much
more one more preset here this is choir from space this is without and we'll activate it
all right y'all so as you can hear some very interesting inspiring results you can get for
your mixes as well as your productions using the new retro fi suite from waves
i am going to also provide all of these presets as a free download
so check that link in the description a lot of different stuff too i get you started get you
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