it's hard to believe that stardust is Cherry Audio's first effect plugin because they have
several incredible synth plugins already now in this video we're going to check out
to see if stardust lives up to that Cherry Audio high quality standard
i'm Zane welcome to Audio Tech TV and if you want more information on stardust you can check the
link down in the description it's available on mac and windows with a starting price of just 19
or 10 dollars if you own the mercury four synth now let's jump in and check it out so i really
like to use tape echoes and tape delays on guitar so that's what we're going to start with here
i have it loaded up onto like a very slow lead guitar track so here it is
all right so that's just the default setting that opens up when you first load stardust it
sounds great just like that but if you click here you can see there's a ton of presets in here so
let's just look for classic and we'll try something in here one head spring
that's pretty cool
a reverb
that's nice
all right so that's not too bad on guitar right there now next i want to try it on
vocals but first let's just kind of look at the user interface a little bit you can see
that this is like having three effects in one you have a chorus section here an echo section here
and then you have a reverb section and you can turn all of these on and off just by the click of
a button so you could use this as just a chorus or just an echo or just a reverb if you really
wanted to but of course it's more fun to blend these things so why not now you can see the big
mode knob and these are your virtual tape head modes so you can just change them up here and you
can see it shows which heads it's using in each mode you also have a wow flutter control here
you have your typical echo controls in here you also have this wow flutter so you can
crank this up and make it sound like it's on an old tape machine let's try that out now
you can actually have some fun with that if you were to do some automation on that knob it could
be quite fun but you also see you have a ton of echo controls in here for the echo the reverb
section is pretty straightforward you have your volume and then bass and treble tone
controls in here so that's a straightforward reverb and same thing with your chorus
very straightforward with rate and intensity so that's about it for all the knobs and things in
here but you can resize this if you want it's by clicking and dragging or you can change the color
so if green isn't your thing you can click on that gear go to interface and then you see here theme
we can change it to blue which is pretty nice we can change it to silver maybe that's your thing
or we can change it to orange and this is my favorite one because that kind of goes with
the color scheme of my vehicle the orange black and white so i really like that one
but i'm going to change this back to green for the rest of this and another cool thing is if you
click here you have your over sampling quality so you can go to four times over sampling with this
to get very high quality audio out of it which is already high quality even with just the normal and
another thing like i showed you is like all cherry audio plugins it comes with a ton of presets
so you can see you have a lot of presets here to get you started
now i'm going to load this up onto a vocal track and we'll check it out on vocals now so here it is
loaded up onto our vocal track and i've got a preset loaded up so let's check it out
all right so that's pretty cool there let's try another preset let's go to this overdrive
and see a heavy slapback so let's hear what it sounds like as a slapback
that's pretty cool so here is another preset we'll go to a
reverb chorus verb let's try that
so that's pretty cool let's go down to warped listen to bad tape
that's a cool effect right there what else do they have in here kitchen sinks
all right so vocals and guitar are the two most typical places where i'll use
an echo or delay something like that especially tape echo or tape delay but let's try this out
on a drum beat just to hear what it sounds like let's get creative with this thing
so here's a bit of a beat let's hear what this thing can do
that's
all right so you can have some fun and get creative with this or there are some useful
presets that you can actually use on drums and they sound decent and can take that boring
drum beat make it sound like something new and of course stardust is going to sound great on synths
as this was actually a module in their mercury four synth and i remember when i reviewed that
i was thinking wow that would be great to have on its own and i guess they were thinking the same
thing so does stardust 201 live up to that high quality of cherry audio plugins i really think
so it sounds great it has all of those presets like cherry audio plugins usually come with it
has that great analog sound that they're known for so yeah i think it's a great first effect and i'm
really looking forward to more effects from them now if you want to check out the mercury 4 synth
where this module was taken from click the video on the screen right now and if you liked this
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon