useless "Snake Oil" vst's

Discussion in 'Software' started by sms2000, Sep 3, 2019.

  1. rudolph

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    Because the same guys made Ozone which I use always and is way better for the same tasks and without the hype.
    Other snake oil could be Eiosis Air EQ along with all the other Fabrice Gabriel stuff.
     
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  2. Gyro Gearloose

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    butch vig vocals is not snake oil

    BTW did anyone use the term snake oil for bad plugins before the yt guy came with 127 snake oil videos ?

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  3. sucklord19k

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    It actually works now thanks to whoever submitted it to the sister site. I can't remember if it was mono or anonymous...
     
  4. No Avenger

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    lkjb Luftikus 40k band

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  5. vaiman

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    I remember hearing it years ago, but I'm sure it was medical related to some miracle cure. He's certainly done well by just adding that phrase to his vids though hasn't he? Crazy yoo toobers
     
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  6. Cav Emp

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    Lots of stuff mentioned in this thread is not snake oil lol


    Btw im pretty sure its an old western phrase. Back in the early days of the US people would sell snake oil claiming its basically a panacea. Snake oil salesman = bullshit merchant
     
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  7. electriclash

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    I like that filter from a few weeks ago
     
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  8. electriclash

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    OP must've known this turn of phrase when posting..

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  9. J Frank Badass

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    i find a mild usage of Crysonic New-B to be quite useful sometimes
     
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  10. J Frank Badass

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    maybe S-Gear is even better than both of those ;)
     
  11. Rodrick Williams

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    Track God[​IMG] :deep_facepalm:
     
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  12. Blue

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    You can do (almost) whatever you want,I'm not the police.I also use some cra**ed softs.But I don't blame them if their cra** doesn't work.
     
  13. sms2000

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    Indeed. Some of the native plugins of fl are useful (3x Osc, sytrus, poizone and some others) while the stock effects can be quite annoying at times. I'm pretty sure that other plugins such as fabfilter or others can do better job mostly.
     
  14. Blue

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    What is bad with this plugin?
     
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  15. sms2000

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    Only after he came up with these videos. some of them are hillarious
     
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  17. Perhaps we should have a category of Snake Oil threads. What do you think of MooFaaFoo? MooFaaFoo is great! Hate! Hate! MooFaaFoo is rubish. Hate! Hate! Hate!

    MooFaaFoo.
    MooFaaFoo.
    What?
     
  18. timer

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    Works as advertised.
     
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  19. livemouse

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    I'm going to go ahead and solve the thread please:

    "The Genwave™EQ is the first product built on the Genwave™ technology. This is not a plug-in EQ like you’ve ever heard before. This is an absolutely no-compromise high-end 5 band equaliser that sounds so incredibly real you won’t believe it until you try it. Forget everything you thought you knew about audible flaws in digital processing.

    There are a lot of EQ plug-ins out there which do a good job of emulating hardware equalisers for most budget/project studios, however most professional engineers would not let their audio within a mile of these so called 'perfect recreations'. We (and others) think that this is the first time truly high-end analogue-like equalisation has been available in plug-in form".

    retail price for this EQ was a little more than $2000


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    https://www.gearslutz.com/board/product-alerts-older-than-2-months/184451-genwave-eq.html
     
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  20. OBKenobi

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    Massive X. More like Massive Disappointment. AKA how to completely screw up a legacy. The sound is ok but the interface is full of unnecessary wasted space and complication. Then there's the minor problem of it not loading all those tens of thousands of classic Massive patches. AKA how to completely screw up a legacy.
     
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