I’m always astonished by the fact that something that « great at the time » is no longer ? I mean if it sounds bad today, it sounded bad at the time ? Or is there any combination of used algorithms and quality of DACs of the time ? Or were those old plugins used as « one trick pony » in their « not bad » spectrum of use ?These days, a lot of stuff is good or great. What you need to look for is aliasing, which can be prevalent in plugins that do distortion of any type. Decapitator is one of those plugins that was considered great in its day, but in modern times it doesn't really hold up due to a lack of internal oversampling. It's easy to check for. Just run some high notes though a plugin as you turn up the distortion amount and you'll start to hear the weird inharmonic garbage that aliasing creates.
Statistics: Posted by SebAV — Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:25 am