Around 2019 these "color box" / LoFi plugins started coming out in droves. I was keeping track of all of them in a list. After 30 different companies released plugins like this, I lost track of it and I don't care enough to keep track of it anymore. RC20 was successful and then a bunch of companies wanted to copy that, and even MORE of these things started coming. There's so many of these damn things now, haven't we had enough? It has become the conformity. I wish these companies would do something more original and innovate instead of re-making this plugin the 51st time.
locking the output/compensate gain to the full version was a dick move. thought I would mitigate it by using it as a send, though that causes phase issues -- so that solution was a no go. anyway, can't complain too much as it was free with my PIB purchase.
I'm glad that i didnt buy any tape saturarion before, just used free ones like chow one. Now this ia great, do what ia ment to, only one knob and no diatrative other options like warble, fixed oversampling in 192 khz and ultra low cpu usage. Amazing
I think Verve is the best saturation plugin out there. I compared it with all my other saturation plugins, and Verve has far better transients then all of the other plugins. I don't know of any other plugin like it.
I like the “sweeten” a tad bit better than the Studer but only on certain things tho. Maybe drum bus. And MAYBE on individual sounds but the Studer is goated
Very good analysis! I already have the Slate VTR and all The IK Multimedia tape sims which are superb so don't really need these but if you don't have anything like this it's no-brainer really.
It's funny. This sort of sound is exactly why I sold my ReVox 736 and G36's (way) back in the day, as it was the last thing I wanted to hear on a stereo master or archive tape ;) Who-da though I might be buying that cludgy sound as an effect many years later? I claimed the free version, let's see if I ever use it.... I don't have many UAD tape models, got lotsa Waves and others though
My question in regard to this is... "how often does UAD actually listen to the criticism and change/correct/expand it?" With you showing that clearly the end result plugin Verve comes from a multitude of tweakable plugins, do they even have a need to give us things like an output and mix knob in Verve?
hmmm.UAD: create something, make it free but totally inconvenient, then say: if you want the useful version, it will cost you some bugs...Is that the right way to show how much you value your customers? I´m not sure.
I think you are close, but those examples of the Studer and the ATR-102 sound totally different to me than the Verve plugin. Not saying that they aren't related somehow, but they're definitely different. Having said that, I can get the Thermionic Culture Vulture to sound almost identical to some of the tube options, but not without tweaking the Vulture for ten minutes first. Verve is just super fast. As far as a "mix" knob goes, I think that it just wouldn't work because of all the modulation happening in the Verve plugin. A 'mix' would cause too much phasing/flanging unfortunately. That's where the tweak-ability of the full on plugins like the Vulture would be more suited.
Thanks Matty. Appreciate the run down. In my opinion these plugins from UAD are nothing other developers haven't done for a long time. Far too late to the party. Just another attempt for more sales really. And the price is a joke for when the promotion is over. When they stop forcing their customers to stay connected to the internet just to use their plugins... only then I would look into possibly purchasing their products.
You do NOT need to stay connected to the internet. When activating with iLok put the license on your iLok key and not the iLok cloud it tries to get you to do by default. You can stay offline all you like until the cows come home.
@@mrufino1 Yeh I understand. The fact no other developer does what they do speaks volumes. iLok key is another expense I don't need. All my plugins don't need to be online and only a handful were activated on the iLok cloud. Even those plugins don't need to be online. Only for the initial activation. To each to their own.
6:20 the difference in my IPhone is huuuuge! I was shocked, didn’t see that coming! The Studer has much much more depth. VERVE sounds harsh and flat!! Ughhh…I won’t use these shitty plugins. Thanks for making this video Matt!
Hey Matt. I've received a reply notification to my comment from someone acting as you. I didn't click on it. The actual reply doesn't exist in the comments on your vid. But it shows only in my notifications. Just thought I would give you a heads up. Cheers
Verve is an annoying way to get their installer on your PC then a pop up ad comes up every hour or so from Universal in Windows asking if we want to buy more products... you know what i have to say about that? F Universal Audio and their overpriced BS... this was the last straw for them. They crossed a line here doing this. a ton of ppl are annoyed with them.
Thanks! Please post some of your masterpieces so we can all hear it! Trip is super talented artist and bass player touring the world. So I guess a lot of us have bad taste in music.
@@mixedbymattyit's horrible music bro you had to loop the most annoying "hooky" part on repeat too. it's easier to hear tape saturation on something like a kick drum that doesn't have a lot of overtones. you keep going on tape saturating mastered songs though!
what a douchey comment for someone who’s gone to the trouble of making an i informative and helpful video and to someone talented who’s kindly let their material be used to do so. The music may not be to everyone’s taste but it did the job without any need to be judge need be snarky. If you worked in my business and ai caught an attitude like that said individual would be fired on the spot for being a c***.
