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Plug-in (preferably free or inexpensive) to warm up recording
No vocals, just guitar. Any recommendations? The simpler the better. Thanks.
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I find the right reverb does a lot to warm up the sound. Narrow band equalization sweeps can be useful to cut harsh frequencies.
Just bought Gullfoss. Will report back if this plugin is valuable for solo guitar.
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"Warm up" is a bit vague. You might just need some EQ - more low end? Cut some highs? I haven't noticed that warmth is an issue with your recordings.
The Oeksound Soothe plugin is really nice for taming edginess, not free, but there's a free trial. Sometimes what people add for "warmth" is saturation. Here's a free one (haven't used it myself) https://www.softube.com/saturationknob
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Thanks Rick and Doug. I'm waiting for support from Softube to get back to me. I downloaded 4 freebies and I'm playing around with them.
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Which DAW are you using? Many of them have a native plugins that might work for you.
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I just got Coffee The Pun for free and it's very good:
https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/t/acqua/free At the bottom of the page.
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Sometimes when people use 'warmth' they are talking about harmonic distortion/Saturation. True Iron from Kazrog can male a massive difference and works from subtle to dramatic!
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Usually in a solo guitar recording that has issues it is either harshness in the treble (the bass is virtually always ok in this aspect)
and/or congestion in the lower midrange. Plugins that are basically designed to "warm" things up don't deal with either of these issues and in fact can add congestion. Harshness needs to be dealt with (if possible at all) on a very narrow frequency band basis. If you just lower the high frequencies in a broad band way you suck out the air and detail in the sound. I don't consider these type of mainly additive versus subtractive warmth plugins to be saviors in regards to sprucing up a solo guitar recording that has these issues. If you have a thin bass sound perhaps of some use but I would go about it differently or just re-record.
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Harsh is a different issue, and I don't think you can fix that by adding "warmth". For home recordings, my number #1 suspect for harsh would be room acoustics. Short reflections and hard surfaces make things sound harsh. The guitar, strings, and playing technique (attack) would be next up on my suspect list, followed by mics. Cheap mics can have harsh sounding highs, for example. The soothe plugin can help with a little harshness - it seems to be basically a many-band compressor that can tame very narrow frequencies on demand, but it's fairly subtle, it's not going to fix a bad room, for example. I recently had good luck using it to smooth out a violin, which can be pretty harsh and nasally when close mic'd. I'd address both harshness and lack of "warmth" with room acoustics, mic choice and placement, and guitar/strings/technique. The various plugins are useful for making fine tweaks once the basic recording is good and you're just trying to fine-tune it.
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Often hard to separate out the bright versus harsh continuum. Harsh has an abundance of transients that are fighting each other
in their overtone sequences (say from a rough fingernail) though a really bright sound can be harsh in its own way. High frequencies are very directional and why mikes out in front of the guitar pick up so much more of that than does the guitar player. Speaking of directionality I do listen to recordings with headphones most of the time. Perhaps a softer experience for many using speakers to listen to recordings (depending on where they are sitting).
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BUT if you going to consider science ? CONSIDER that as Rick and Doug have both mentioned. The science of room acoustics, will most likely do much more to "warm" up your recordings than any digital mathematical algorithm
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