I love these shootouts. I do wish you would post the results sooner. By the time you post the results, I have completely forgotten what I chose! lol. I am a n old Boomer who has been recording/mixing/mastering (at times at a national USA level), and I actually trust you guys. Keep it going.
Regarding the "tape type" ssturators blind test, I liked 2 and 3 the most with 4 coming in as a strong contender. As far as watching your videos, I must say that you guys are the funniest, most no bs, upfront, honest, down to earth, coolest sound geeks on the internet by far. Your taste and background knowledge is plenty to keep us well entertained and informed. Please keep it up as long as possible! Cheers
My Top 5 😁 1 - Channel Strip - Edelwiss 72 - Great Eq Section , Plus it doesn't look like your typical strip. 2 - Compressor - MJUC - It glues things like nobody is watching. 3 - Saturator - NA The Voltour - This will make you track sound badass . 4 - Overloud - MODULA - It just makes everything sound expensive. 5 - Klenghelm - LUXE - Don't ask me what it does , But you need it.
For the saturator blind test, no idea which is which, but I personally like 4 the most. Slightly more crunchy. This is listening outside in my garden, outside Croydon, using Sony WF-1000XM5 having a hard time drowning out the police helicopter overhead.
All the saturators sound usable, but in different ways. 5 is the best tape. 1 is valve-like. 2 is 1073ish. 3 is API-ish. 4 is like a bass overdrive stompbox.
I dont wanna participate in blind tests anymore... Looptrooter could be 4... top end reminds on their hardware clipping circuit. All other one sounded fine?
I never used any analog gear in my mixes ever. So I dont know jack. However, plugin wise I like Ultramarine or the UAD one for the tone. For compression tho Magic Death Eye is the one!
No clue what's what, but four sounds the best, followed by 5, I hae the looptrotter, the high end of four sounded like the magic section of that, I think.
Fair point though innit. I mean, you put a lot of effort into this and youve got 6k viewers. I bought a doughnut in sainsburys today and 4 people watched me doing that. You do the maths.
I mainly use the stock saturator in Cubase with a bit of the Noiseash 31102 channel strip and some of that Neve saturation. The stock Cubase plugins sound great. I use them whenever possible. Only adding a few third party plugins here and there. What sucks in Cubase is the limiter, pumpy garbage, so I L2 that. But almost everything else is great. I've got 4x great stock reverbs in Cubase, algorithmic and convolution, like, do I really need another? Cubase has it's own Pultec EQ, it's own 1176, LA2A, they all sound great. Like, I just don't need a pile of third party plugins in Cubase to get a great mix. I added a SSL, Distressor and Unfairchild as third parties for a few other compressor options, and I'm pretty much done for compressors. Oh, and I added a clipper, Cubase doesn't have a clipper. Years ago when Cubase wasn't so comprehensive, I used to use the Waves suite, but it's just not necessary at all any more. Noiseash 31102 - definitely agree with you guys on this one. I have tried multiple other channel strips and the EQ curves on this just do it for me. This is one of the very few third party plugins I add.
AI is taking over all the plugins slowly, soon it will be a case of AI doing the mixers and masterers work. That scares me more than most things tbh. The soul will leave music.
