Paul, like a few others in his "field", can't really mix, so he turned looking at what plug-ins do into a business, for all the other people who think that in-depth knowledge of the code behind each tool is more important than practice and taste
It’s pretty clear that guy had a result in mind that he wanted to prove before he even started doing any testing. But, unfortunately, outrage gets the clicks.
I love the mixhead, everything I put it on sounds a bit tighter and more polished. Like putting a fine coat of polish on a car. Some of these RU-vid mixers sound like they don’t actually do much mixing!
All I gotta say is this… even if MixHead was something that I could recreate exactly with other plugins, I’d still use MixHead because it gets me there faster and sounds damn good! Well worth the price of admission.
I don't even think you needed to make this video but I'm glad you did. It's one thing to show that something can null at one setting, but how it sounds in context is what matters in the end.
After that video came out, I tried replicating some of Mr. Third's tests, and long story short, we ended up getting into it a bit. I tried to explain the dynamic nature of the plugin and how the harder you hit it, the more diverse the signal processing becomes. Honestly, just the fact that he had to eliminate the high-frequency adjust to even produce his lackluster results makes his entire argument ridiculous. Bottom line, I’ve never put M Saturator on my mixbus, nor will I, even after testing it against MixHead. Its GUI is cluttered, it feels unintuitive, and the sweet spot for saturation is somewhere between -2 and +2. Any harder than that, and it’s just straight-up distortion. A plugin's worth is in the sound it creates and how easy it is to use. IMO, MixHead is great! It sounds good and is easy to dial in. The presets alone make it worth its price to me. Not to mention, its GUI is cool, and the HF adjust adds something you can’t find on many tape saturation plugins. It’s the best of both worlds: the low-end bloom of tape and the crisp crackle of digital hi-fi!
I respect how you handled this, really well done! I wish some of the commenters here would have had the same respect and grace you had in the video. We can disagree and still be kind to each other.
