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Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by Dj Rephlex » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:38 pm

So lastnight when I was looking around for plugins to give my melodies/drops a more complete sound and was told to get Camel Crusher. I've fucked with it some but I still have some questions, even after reading the manual.
1: I don't know where to start putting it in a song. I don't want to over use it, but I don't want to under-use it to the point where there's random distortion spikes throughout the track.
That's really my main concern at this time.
I'm not trying to sound like an idiot but if anyone else is using FL studio and Camel crusher it would be mega helpful if someone could send me either an unofficial song FLP they don't care much about so I can have an idea where to put it, or if someone could bullshit a song clip using Camel Crusher.
I know the best way to learn is to practice but it's kind of hard when I don't know a ton about this form of distortion.
Any help is appreciated!
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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by Coolschmid » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:06 pm

As far as I know it is a variation on standard bitcrushing vsts, so anything regarding bitcrushing or bit rate reduction would also apply to camel crusher. I don't use it often, but if you did use it it would be lightly on some sort of bass or lead, or maybe on a mixbuss for an interesting crushing sweep.

It adds harmonics, so you get good results if you lowpass a sound first before applying it, and can get some neat results if you automate the cutoff of that lowpass.

A lowpass filter with high resonance followed by a bitcrusher is how people achieve some of those old simple talking basses.

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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by district » Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:03 pm

its really useful as a limiter (compressor section),

for automating volume on the channel when you dont want to do it on the fader (just in case you want a sound to sweep from 0-100 but haven't decided how loud you want 100 on the track just yet) use that all the time for sweeps actually

using a touch of the distortion on bass sounds/ drums/ along with the filters is also useful.

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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by sunny_b_uk » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:16 pm

Coolschmid wrote:As far as I know it is a variation on standard bitcrushing vsts, so anything regarding bitcrushing or bit rate reduction would also apply to camel crusher. I don't use it often, but if you did use it it would be lightly on some sort of bass or lead, or maybe on a mixbuss for an interesting crushing sweep.

It adds harmonics, so you get good results if you lowpass a sound first before applying it, and can get some neat results if you automate the cutoff of that lowpass.

A lowpass filter with high resonance followed by a bitcrusher is how people achieve some of those old simple talking basses.
bitcrushing? where and how.. it has tube distortion and their so call mech distortion + an LP filter and compressor.
there's no bitcrushing or bit rate reduction in any of the FX in camel crusher.

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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by Sharmaji » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:29 pm

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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by Nexoid » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:55 pm

I usally clone the bass pattern and apply a high pass filter on one, and a low pass on the other. Then I use camel crusher on the high passed bass pattern only. I love camelcrusher!
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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by Hircine » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:10 am

district wrote:its really useful as a limiter (compressor section),

for automating volume on the channel when you dont want to do it on the fader (just in case you want a sound to sweep from 0-100 but haven't decided how loud you want 100 on the track just yet) use that all the time for sweeps actually

using a touch of the distortion on bass sounds/ drums/ along with the filters is also useful.

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camelcrusher on claps and general percussion can really bring the sounds to life. try using it as a parallel aux to the drum bus, high pass then crank the distortion and dose it. and yeah, the compressor in it can go really hard if you want, the phat option can really destroy a sound in a good way.
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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by MaZa1 » Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:32 am

Using it for drums and sometimes for midbasses. Using it as send and blending it to the rest of the sound is something worth trying

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Re: Camel Crusher VST questions

Post by Kilo beats » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:41 am

district wrote:its really useful as a limiter (compressor section),
what kind of things would you use the Camel Crusher limiter on if you dont mind my asking, any in-particular sounds you like using that plugin on? or just anything that needs a limiter?

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