Great VDO. I have one. The green frequency selector or the left side doesn't match right. For example to get 1K on the right channel (green band) the freq selector has to be on 1.5k. Can this be fixed?
Better compress, cook, clean, massage my back and sing my babies to sleep after every bloody mix! 35 what?! I love gear, guess not this much cause even if I had the cash? Hard pass for me!...
Honestly, no one with 35 grand to spend on a compressor needs a beginner's walk through of the controls of this thing, they already know what it does very well. Skip straight to the detailed, gain matched, carefully done sound demonstrations please.
Even those who do want to buy this are paying money for a trademark, when there are significantly more affordable alternatives if you want a great vari-mu compressor.
It is exactly those who are willing to pay $35,000 who needs such a walk-through. I once represented in a professional capacity at a exclusive meet up for those having bought the most expensive Gibson guitars in the area. Price tag over a certain point and talent seemed to be mutually exclusive.
Thanks, i need a constant reminder of this thinking of the what if’s as i explore writing for vocals 😅 i keep coming back to “if i had analog maybe id sound better” and then just doubling down on if i just learn better how to use digital plugins properly, i can sound amazing purely in the box Definitely feels good knowing i havent yet sunken $3000+ on an analog neve preamp and octo compressor yet, though the thought of how much more efficient i could be with tracking always lingers 🫠
@@prestonleebenjamin Yes, you should learn everything you can learn in the box. Squeeze every last drop out of what you already have. But plugins and hardware do NOT sound the same and will never sound the same. Both do things the other can never provide, and for that reason, a hybrid setup for tracking and mixing is perfect. Don't listen to people saying you don't need one or the other. People who say that "you don't need hardware" are usually people who've always been ITB and never touched hardware. Their claims are utterly baseless, because they lack evidence that can only be gathered with experience. :P Also, you can get great hardware without breaking the bank. The bang for buck has gotten so much better in recent decades.
i’m not sure efficient is the word i’d use with hardware vs vst. hardware is just cool and tactile, but is it better? i’m sure every years someone wins a grammy with music produced wholly in the box. i’d say it’s just a different experience.
@@40EastTrill Lol! Great pun. There are analog vari-mu compressors that are a fraction of the cost of this. Still, they punch way above their price point and REALLY deliver the goods.
Great sound. Lots of variety too. Pretty impressive for a 500 series unit. There should be more effects for 500 rather than just the standard stuff eq/comp/pre etc etc.
Thanks you! Congratulations on the (future) Soyuz purchase - the 013s really are superb on piano. Don't hesitate to let us know if we can help at all!🤘
The main component that pleases most people are the line transformers. I suspect most true Pultec units over both balanced and unbalanced inputs and outputs. Alas, if you are not near a strong EMF source, such as a broadcast xmitter, cell towers, high tension lines (multiple), etc, you might as well use the unbalanced lines -i.e., it won't matter as long as the Pultec output is NOT loaded by the receiving gear (digital or analogue recorders/converters, amps, other modification gear,etc). Audio is NOT like RF transmission, where all connection and devices must have impedances that exactly match (resonance is key with RF systems). With AF (audio) you only need to make sure your outputs are not being loaded by your inputs; -e.g. I use McIntosh Preamps ( heavily modified) with cathode followers that deliver 50,000 Ohms. E.g., My amplifiers are well over 100,000 Ohms (using EF 86 valves). In fact, a preamp output of 1 meg Ohm is a perfect load for the EF 86 circuit I designed. The EF 86's are so quiet that unloaded you can hear only a very slight and attenuated gaseous sound that vanishes the moment it is loaded by more than a few mega Ohms. There is no way 50K Ohms will be loaded by such a circuit, and there are no transformers. Pultec uses great I/O, line, trannies and this is one of the best things about them. They make great DI circuits. However, the only thing better than a great I/O transformer is NO transformer. No I/O transformer can be perfectly linear, but some x-formers have a pleasing curve for some instruments and/or music. Plutec used great trannies, but I have never heard a better I/O transformer than in the RCA gear (made by Western Electric) -broadcast or recording. RCA built much of their boards for use in either B-cast or recording. 'Tis gear, well worth rebuilding. The downside of Pultec uits is they are WAAY overpriced. Dear lord, any E.e. with a fair bench and a chassis can design and build such a circuit; -the schematics are easy to find. The only expensive component are the I/O transformers ($100- $175 for a good I/O x-former). So why don't recording engineers build their own gear? Many do, but most "recording engineers" have learned only how to twiddle knobs. I was shocked to find a chief engineer of a major record label thoroughly ignorant of how digital conversion worked (he had never studied The Calculus!). Alas, he had no maths background or proper university E.E. engineering training. A person can learn this on their own, but fe seem so inclined. You find this mostly in the USA. In England, for example, EMI will not hire an engineer without at least an undergraduate E.E. degree. Any engineer who hasn't this knowledge is simply a self deluded knob-twiddler. Some of them are good knob twiddlers, but when it comes to a simple repair onsite or designing a custom circuit, they are lost. It's not rocket science, but it IS SCIENCE. Do I sound angry? I am a musician, but I happen to have a thorough E.E. university background. I cannot tell you how many times I have had to solve a simple problem and p-off the so called "Engineer" on the job. All I care about is getting the job done...and it IS my dime. When a "professional" recording engineer, whom my people are paying, has no idea what reactance is, how digital conversion works, what is happening in phase mismatched circuits, impedance vs. current & voltage, etc., I find it a tad frustrating. Hey, I don't ask engineers to write songs or tune guitars; why should I need to explain Ohm's Law or why a balanced circuit requires three wires? -Never mind Maxwell's Equations! You cannot make this up.
@@user-th6rh8zp3tI'm stone cold sober. She's singing very quietly and breathy. Her ennuciation is being drowned out by the instruments. You can barely hear the words. She should be miked closer and mixed louder. This is a demo for a vocal mic lol
It's crazy how quickly these guys have rebuilt themselves from the ashes of the previous company, and have so quickly built such a rapport in the audio world. I never knew they had headphones as well, so I need to check them out too!
Love synths but I’m no keys player (guitarist) would just end up playing it with a sequencer and not doing justice to such a wonderful design. Plus have been on a splurge of kit buying and need to talk myself out of it 😂 Sounds great in your hands though 👍
From Neve: Both preamp channels feature a balanced insert send & return loop, ideal for connecting analogue outboard processing into your recording chain. Each insert send is always active, allowing for signal splitting, and providing an analogue output for each preamp before the A/D converter. Hope that helps!
When I first heard demos of this thing, I was kinda meh/on the fence. The filter didn't jump out to me particularly, and then I realized I was high on crack and it sounds beautiful, organic, and very ready to go into a mix. Now I am high on other crack that makes me want one even tho I have no clue if a large poly like this will ever be in my budget. Long story short, solid demo great sounds haha
Sounds good, but I wouldn't compare it to the original. I have a replica with almost all the original components and it still doesn't sound the same. In my case I used Mundorf and Aerovox capacitors. And the difference is in the transformers, there is nothing like the Triad's Interstage and Peerless
