ANALOG EQ VALUE OR MARKETING? 

On my system Pink4 is 4,2% Ozone Eq 1,4% and MadEq 0,7% Also something that needs to be mentioned, in a full mix, cpu isn't my only concern, but also latency. Not in the way i need by any mean 0 or low latency, but with a project made with lots of AA everything is very clunky to play, while one made with lots of Melda is superfast as with stock plugins. And this is among the reasons i decided to switch away from AA. Ofc their plugins sounds usually good, but why? So i made my own tests on eq's and compressors trying to have a better understanding and to see if i could replicate what i used and i like the most, and that's what i've done achieving almost everything. EQ wise i've just replicated whatever i needed with 0 differences to my ears, not just on single sounds but in a whole mix, while trying to replicate compressors is way harder and took me away more time. But i ended up to achieve that too with MTurboComp. There is just one compressor i wasn't able to recreate, one inside Coral, and so i decided to make one to achieve the same results in a different way, and i'm very happy with it. Saturation knob on MadEq is very nice, just remember when you use it to enable OS, and if so, do it when you open it, cause in the higher frequencies the freq response is different on different OS factor.

@@FrankieTedesco I own some AA plugins and have them uninstalled because they behave kind of slow and agree with you! I use a lot of Melda Plugins (MComplete user) because they don´t consume a lot of CPU, it helps that they go to sleep when aren´t being used... it supposed to be a normal thing on all VST3 plugins but still not sure about that! About saturation... MsaturatorMB is amazing! Great video and thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Pink is imo one of the best suite from AA because the sound, cpu consumption, that it's high, but compared to their other stuff it's lower, expecially the channel strip. Anyway everything can be replicated, i modeled my API device made for MadEq ko-fi.com/s/06eb0be4a0 to match the curves just with few knobs. Ofc isn't 100% the same, if you want you need to shape a bit in the usual graphical section, but it's close enough and tbh in a real workflow this usually sound even better (i like the differences more than the original). So yes, once you can use something else the workflow is way better cause of a lower cpu and latency. I know sometime i may sound like a broken records when i talk about Melda stuff, but as someone very curious to try stuff and understand how everything works and why something may sounds better or just look like that in comparison with something else, i dig into it. And when i discover that "magic" isn't real, but just well made curves for eq's people would never do on a graphical one cause it looks "weird" it's hard for me trying to stay silent when i see people on forum speaking about "superior sonic quality" or the usual "insta buy" you often see on GS new product tread, where people waste their money for something they already have. With that said ofc everyone is free to do whatever they want, even just for the sake of being easier to buy 100 plugins instead to learn one. With that said, i'm very curious to see their workflow when they need an eq or a compressor and have to decide which to pick between hundreds. I'd love to create a kind of blind test, like i've done here, with compressors, but being harder it require more time, and most importantly youtube doesn't looks to help my channel and my videos to being discovered as others, and so for the moment doesn't worth the effort.

@@FrankieTedesco Do you prefer your AP1 layout or the MTurboEQ layout?

I prefer my AP1 layout, at the bottom you find low freq on top high freq, i think it's a natural position, but it could be also the opposite, low on top and high on bottom. Both ways looks better to me, but it's also true i'm not used to MTE so may just be matter of being used to it