The McGurk Effect & the new Waves plugin...

https://youtu.be/G-lN8vWm3m0

Ever been mixing and let's say, dialing in an EQ, setting on a track. You tweak and tweak until your positive you've got it sounding just right only to realize you weren't EQing the track and you thought you were?

For me it happens more with "in the box" mixing but I've also been tricked working on a desk where the labeling has been removed or labeled incorrectly. Not often at all but still just weird...

The Waves plugin I'm referencing can be found here:

http://www.waves.com/plugins/brauer-motion#presenting-brauer-motion-spherical-auto-panner

(it's on sale for $29 if yer interested)

I haven't tried it yet but it doesn't seem to be a case of the McGurk effect, but it still brought this to mind.

Either way I just think it's really trippy we can absolutely know our eyes are playing tricks on us & still have the same reaction.

10% off Waves coupon if anyone wants to use it-

http://refer.waves.com/e0y0m

Buck me! That flew my mind!

Weird shit, right?

I'm a bit obsessed with anything to do with psychoacoustics or it's weird neighbors...but this one is just way wacky.

Ever been mixing and let's say, dialing in an EQ, setting on a track. You tweak and tweak until your positive you've got it sounding just right only to realize you weren't EQing the track and you thought you were?

YES! all the time.... soemtimes its an amazing accident that unlocks the whole secret of the balance. In the box I frequently will use a a couple fo the same exact comrpessor plugin on different channels, I'll have them all set up, leave them in the abckground open and decide to adjust one or automate one for the corus or soem shit but ebcause they're all teh same I grab the wrong one! and I start comrpessige a track thatw as perfectly, transparently peak limited and I fuck it up totally! And I think the mix sounds ebtter and that Iw as doing the other guitar track or whatever... But I will be like "wait? that's guitar2, aww hell, but that so mch better even though I was wrong, umm why didn't I do it that way in the first place?"

I think that confusion is a powerful source of discovery in recording. Soemtiems just hooking stuff up in an unintended way is totally awesome.... kind've an argument against patchbays ine xperimental type home studios.

I wonder if this whacky panner is available as aprt of my waves subscription. I kinda wanna check it out even though it doesn't sound like my sort of effect (and I don't like michael brauer mixes).

I didn't HAVE to do this.. but I did it anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX8a8gRBKE

I'm an idiot. Took me about 3min to get this.

reaching for coffee

Okay, I'll come clean. I had to try it. $30 & under I'll try just about anything. If any of you wanna futz with it it's only $19 bucks with that code I posted.

I was beat so I haven't used it yet but I watched the 25min how-to video.

I've never felt so sea-sick. It can get just silly. It actually is kinda cool tho. Check out the video just be sure to have some Dramamine on hand. He gets nuts with it.

I can see using it for some cool practical FX stuff.

Or to just make a dificult client barf. Dear god if you listened to it in full wacky mode w/ headphones on? Yeah, yer gonna barf for sure.

James- Totally. I've had it happen mixing on a board when the assistant or intern didn't label correctly too. If it worked I just wouldn't say a thing...at least not till the client was gone.

I'm an idiot. Took me about 3min to get this.

reaching for coffee

that's some punishing punnage

positively pure puntastic.