Thanks for the thoughtful review Alex! We would like to point out that the MPC Channel has been optimized so you can install it on every track of a big session, and it has full compatibility with the Avid surfaces like the S6, including EQ curve displays and gain reduction metering. Also with that price comes Harrison’s support team that has been providing solutions for our enterprise customers for decades. We are so glad you liked the MPC Channel plugin!
The Harrison team has really created something fantastic (as usual) with the MPC Channel, and it integrates really well into workflows of every level, from audiobook VO to full feature films. I’m using it on every channel! For anyone who doesn’t know, Harrison support is legendary in the major studio world. These are people who REALLY understand the high demands of feature films and TV.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino Bingo! Nearly no post house is using this plugin. Everyone are using buildin EQs and things such as fabfilter. And guess what? Most of them are running it on every channel. I am sorry but the 1500 is ridiculous. It would probably be used a lot more if it wasn't so stupidly expensive.
His presentation convinced me to Buy, he was telling the truth nothing but, the product is awesome! I am a new member of the HARRISON family. I love SSL, and Softube. I am a media company with a Software Development and Audio background, the product is very well modeled and runs well on my systems. Thank you Harrison for making this moment happen!!
Alex, I have been in this business for over 30 years, Thank you for this powerful review! I Subscribed immediately and purchased the plugin! got a deal for $99 at 6 am this morning. I added it to my project. It is everything you said and more!!! You are my brother with a wealth of good knowledge. Please keep us the GREAT WORK, I will visit often and learn much more.
I must say that I’ve never been interested in Harrison plugins, but since watching this video, I’ve adopted a few of their ava plugins. The multiband compressor is now my go-to on my main SFX bus. I’ve never been really happy with the sound from other MB compressors.
I mixed on a 32C back in the day (1979-1980). Love the sound of that console. Fast forward to 2024 ... this is a fantastic plugin for $29. A great plugin for $49. An OK plugin for $69. End of paragraph.
Quality, legacy, or prestige has nothing to do with it's pricing. It's intended to service a billion dollar industry. So they charge accordingly. No reason for the average user to pay that for a plugin
As a complete audio beginner, but a stills photographer for 54 years, I think there's a definite threshold between What Just Works and what a full-time pro would need to have in his kit in order to continue to serve his elite feature film clients and make a living. And nowadays I think we’ve reached a point where the dividing line between pro and beginner is a fairly low bar, thanks to advances in technology and a very feature-rich market for used gear. I can, for example, shoot pro photos on a used $300-$500 Canon original 5D or 6D. I can record pro audio on a used Sound Devices MixPre-3 II. And of course I can edit pro audio with Audition and the ERA plugins. I enjoy your reviews of high-end gear - they are at once very pleasant, professional, and informative. But I'm not going to let my Inner Idiot break the leash and go in search of the last 0.0005 asymptotic degree of perfection. There - I've composed my marching anthem. Down, ego! Down, ego!
I heartily agree. I'm watching the Perry Mason TV series from 1957 onward and am impressed by the video and audio quality; of course many movies in the '30s and '40s were gorgeous.
In 1995, the Waves TDM Q10 and C1 where $600 each with only 12 instantiations at once! Want more, you would have to buy more! I bought both. In 2000, they wouldn't offer any upgrade path and left me high-n-dry.
A lot of people balk at the price and the graphics, which I totally get. But it’s honestly one of the best “everyday” plugins I have at this point. The de-esser is hands down my favorite of any I’ve used so far, the compressor is super natural sounding, and having an integrated denoiser is huge.
What a tone.. soft, fuzzy, warm, all that good stuff. I thought my EQ curves weren’t good enough. But there’s a saturation aspect to Harrison that is almost impossible to replicate.
@@annekedebruyn7797 nope. That’s not a reliable way of checking saturation. The overtones generated when you use the compressor or de-esser won’t be detected this way. Compressors and limiters that impart colour are used in post production all the time
The only quirk I’ve found with this (and this is very subjective) is that the layout in Expand mode can be a little weird. Let me know what your guys think though, would be curious how they feel about it!
@@axk Were on lockdown and mostly working remotely from home. Though I'm the one guy in office (rebooting computers etc) but once I run into one of my supervisors who drop by every now snd then I'll bring it up. When we're running atmos projects that are hundreds of tracks wide something that lays off on the dsp, is S6 optimized and has so many different processors in a single plug would be greatly appreciated.
Wow... A $1500 single plugin explained in just 13 minutes. Alex, I like watching your videos. Perhaps to listen to you,, but not so to hopefully purchase your recommendations.
How many of you can put 48 or more instances of a plug in your DAW and not crash the system? or 5 other plugs like this one on that many channels at once? How much would it cost to get those Rack processors ie..., , Manley Stereo Tube EQ, API 550b 500 Series EQ, Tube-Tech CL 1B Tube Optical Compressor, API 529 500 series Comp, A couple Empirical Labs EL-DS DerrEsser 500 Series De-Esser, to get two each of those would be around $12,150. Plus Harrison Consoles puts their special sauce on it and you have all that and more for $1500. I'll take Harrison MPC Plug any day over buying $12,150 of a few rackmounts, and the quality of the plug is as good or better than most of them!!!! Depends on who your recording..................
It might just be the best sounding audio kit of all time! Like the consoles with the same code was. Leagues beyond anything Neve or Manley or Tube tech imho. Someone on the thread said warm and fuzzy. And it is. But in a totally transparent(as in holographic) way.
And this is what’s so cool about all this stuff; it’s all totally about personal preference! I love Fabfilter’s stuff, but I’m finding Harrison’s MPC fits better in my workflow personally. But especially if you’re passing sessions around between a stage and an editorial team, Fab is much more widespread!
Sound really, really good. I have worked on the consoles, they cost hundreds of thousands, and this plugin sound the same. I am not kidding. Fab filter do not! It also just falls into place, you can't make it sound bad, so everything goes so fast and easy.
Already changed out my usual Fabfilter stuff to this! RX solves some other problems that not many other tools can, so I still use that every day too, but I’m now all MPC on all my mixing work.
gonna have to pass, and not because of the price. - EQ: I use equilibrium and Fabfilter Q3, both of these EQ allow unlimited bands and Q3 can create extreme and odd notch shapes sometimes needed to scoop out problem areas. -Denoiser: I have Cedar, which allows much finer control and frequency target, doubt the MPC denoiser is better than it. -Deesser: I have Sooth and fabfilter desser. so unless the Harrison's EQ, denoiser, desser, are the best available on the market today, gonna have to let this one go.
So, this does sound better than AVA series or no? This is the important thing we want to know. Pro or semi-pro, money is money. Workflow is very similar to the AVA strips. Full compatibility with the Avid surfaces - is this a reason for the elitist pricing? I have buy through the years all Harrison's software (Mixbus and all the released plugins except this one). I own a profesional studio with expensive hardware. Money is not my problem but I stay far away from elitist behaviours.
Honestly, I think this is more targeted toward major studio mixers who want their MPC5’s (or 4’s) back on Avid surfaces. It definitely sounds great and is everything I would personally want from the Harrison channel workflow at the “big league” level. That being said, you can get great results from many plugins these days. If you have a specific desire for the MPC console workflow, this is literally the same code that their consoles contained. But as I mentioned in the video, if you’re not after that specific thing, there are other great tools out there that might be better investments. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is an elitist plugin, but it’s definitely for a very specific group of mixers that are used to (or want to have) the large format motion picture console workflows. Hope that helps!
If you buy every single AVA plug from that line you get everything (except the de-noiser) in this 1500.00 plugin for 900.00-ish dollars. That must be one heck of de-noiser for the 600.00 markup.
@@cl9826 Good question! It depends on what you want from a compressor! Traditional dynamic processing for non-linear content (i.e. Mixing music or sound to picture post production) will almost always be better with automation than a automatic plug-in. Especially now with loudness normalization in most media. If you are looking for that result but is doing something live or budget restricted to no automation, then I think the stock avid stuff or fab filter or similar do the trick ok. If you are going for non-linear, classic compression for the sake of the sound of the artifacts, like 1176, La2A,670, 160, VCA Buss compression etc., then I think you should look into something like the Plug-in alliance package, or SSL native. I would personally stay away from Waves, Slate and UAD. If I were to mention one single plug-in that nails modelling and sounds more analog, and more like the real thing than anything else, if that isolated is important, it would still be the Softube plug-in of the TubeTech CL1b.
@@hepphepps8356 Hi, thanks for the reply. Using it for VO/dialog. Which is why I was attracted to the Legacy Q since that's what it was geared towards. I've been using the Metric Halo channel strip for compession and EQ but now that Legacy has outshined the MH EQ I don't want to load up the channel strip just for compression all the time. I just found out about TDR kotelnikov compressor which I'm trying out now. Funny you say don't use Waves, I came to the same conclusion which is why I began testing new plugins before settling on the Metric Halo. I was trained to use RComp and RenEQ at my first production studio until I eventually realized Rcomp was degrading the sound.
Well I certainly like the look of the layout - but immediately had the following questions pop into my mind? Where's the M/S processing? The saturation options? The sidechain options? The multiband compressor? This looks like some basic channel strip that would have been s streamlined sensation - about 15 years ago! If you look in depth at the Fabfilter ProMB and what each individual band can do, it is simply mind-boggling. None of that present here. Unless Harrison uses sophisticated tricks in their bit mapping or wherever the basic engine gets it's sound (no oversampling either btw) I really don't get it.
It sounds so good you won't bother with M/S, and saturation would feel like you destroyed something already perfect. This plugin sounds like a $400,000 console, not a $250 plug-in.
It’s definitely aimed at the “major studio” feature stages and mixers that have been using the MPC consoles and are now on S6’s. The big takeaways for me, apart from having the MPC5 channel strip in the first place, are: How light on processing it is - I run it on every channel (upwards of 350 tracks) Integrated denoising on every channel Reliable automation - some plugins use a lot more resources than they report (like Fabfilter with all parameters enabled) and others are prone to errors in writing/reading But that being said, there are plenty of great plugins that are capable, affordable, and give you great sound!
@@axk That’s cool, and I’m sure those are all invaluable features for those who work in PP in that capacity, however, coming from a producing background, when I think of expensive plugins that justify their price point, I think of something like Oeksounds soothe 2, Oxfords line of plug-ins or Advanced AI assisted Izotope plugins
Totally. And all of those are great (Soothe is especially helpful), plus there’s always the question of “will this plugin make me more money?” (Which is more a question of how much time a particular tool will save you by using it long term) At the end of the day, the most important thing is to get the right tools for your work and be comfortable using them. While some definitely work magic, it’s far more about the person using them! Also, sounds like you’re already aware of the Oxford Inflator 😎
@@BLARSpot But it sounds so much better, man. You have it a bit upside down, you lose the need for 90% of your soothe or Izotope plugs with this. Even though it doesn't have AI, just touching "any" knob makes you feel as if it read you mind. There is just soo much experience built into it. It is like cheating. And you wok so fast, never doubtng it will sound good.
You'll make better music only if you practice more, read more books, watch more videos, and learn about mixing more, expensive plugins don't make you sound good, only your knowledge and skills do, a beginner with $5000 plugins can't get even close to what a professional can do with just stock plugins, as a beginner musician thinking that if you buy a expensive plugin will instantly make your music sound better is the absolute worst mindset you can have, if your music doesn't sound good the problem is in your lack of skill and knowledge, not your plugins.
@@kbmadethatshit6364 I think that you missunderstood my comen. What do you answer to me is what I try to tell you. The the music is from your skill and knowledge. Thanks
No. Ozone doesn't sound very good. Not when you compare it to this. This will make you work faster and worry less about sound. That might just enable you to make better music.
@@kbmadethatshit6364 While that is correct, this is one piece of gear that actually delivers on quality and doesn't rip you off with some upgrade scheme every year. And if he needs to brighten something up, he can just grab that eq, and he will be hard pressed to mess it up, beause it sounds sooo good.
"100s... of 1000's of dollars of HARDWARE and DSP ...built into a single plugin" - Please tell me how they got the hardware into the plugin ! Seriously...
I have to say, i like the Harrison Plugins, even though they are not outstanding or special. But this price point? Hello??? And no, it is not necessary where it comes from. It is necessary how it sounds
The secret behind those big studio consoles is *experienced tallented guys* who know how to take good to amazing and subsequently the answer to such 1500$ plugin(even without watching with 99% probability to say) - wasted money, except it could mix/improuve instantly, almost no need to tweek, waste time, because time's money; buy Ozone 9/Neutron + gullfoss/Soothe + Acustica Audio has some + Acme XLA-3 that 9 of 10 producers use in 2021 = you will achieve more impressive results than just tweaking this thing. Once I was working for reach marketing woman and she said we can sell shit if needed not worse than a quality product = you can put any prise to your stuff, but in such saturated market with quality plugins that ARE WAY LESS EXPENSIVE and instantly improuving your mixes without spending a lot of time, this *thing* is looking far less pretty as it would have been tryed to be solved on an empty market!
This plugin isn't for you. It's for TV/movie post production. Places that have spent $100k on an Avid S6, where $1500 for an all in one plugin that works well in that context saves time and works well.
With all due respect, this is shameful. Nothing you’ve illustrated in this video shows why toss plug-in has that price tag, and it’s marketed to those just starting out in the business. When you claim in the end of your video “if you’re looking for that pro sound” that people should get this plugin is false advertising. Take it for what it’s worth
