I'm sorry, but I see (hear) it differently. I compared them on pop and rock material (both unmastered mixes and also on drum groups, vocal groups, etc.) - and the Metric Halo beats the SPL IMHO by far. The MBS Mixhead remains more transparent and smoothes out the sibilants very nicely, the SPL Machine Head sounds thinner and smears more. With the same settings they sound totally different, the Mixhead stays closer to the bypassed signal. In the end, it remains a subjective matter and always depends on the genre, personal taste/listening habbits and the quality of the monitoring system.
No need to be sorry, this is all extremely subjective... It might be that one is more suitable for electronic music vs. rock music. As long as you are getting the results your after, that s what matters!
I have the entire SPL RED hardware line (I'm that old) and the RED line of products were literally a copy and paste code from a set of Cubase plugins, a Tape Emulator, a brickwall limiter and a Harmonic Enhancer. Also those old SPL units had Motorola CPUs in them and were so HOT that you had to print them every time and turn them back off. But the Limiter was average but the actual star of that set was the Spectralizer which was a frequency dependent 2nd & 3rd order harmonic generator. Spectralizer was actually pretty good. It also only let you hear the effect like we see in modern plugins with the "delta" button.
@@HYPERCREATIIVE SPL Machine head is a 1 to 1 Code copy and paste of the Steinberg original Magneto v1 plugin from like 1997 which was one of the earliest quote "tape emulation" plugins. So that is the quality of the hardware's saturation. It has a flavor but its very static and pretty stale compared to anything modern. SPL paid Steinberg to port their Magneto code to the Motorola CPUs and only the Spectralizer was an original algorithm. The Machine Head is Magneto and the Brikwall Limiter is a 1 to 1 port of the Cubase brickwall limiter from the 90s. But Brainworx have added the Ultimate mode which seems to be a modern revision. The hardware sucks to be honest, the CPU is too hot and most units didn't last that long due to the heat issues. So I would not waste my money on a port of a plugin to a box, just get the plugin if you really want that flavor.
May i ask what the use of the auto filter at 19.9 is? Doing cause of nynquist, aliasing and such related reasons? Very nice video. Enjoying a lot till now at min 8. Also very nice mix. Nice low end. Kick and bass are purr fect
Hi, I juts use the filter to cut down the music when I am speaking. When it is all the way up it has a negligible impact on the signal hitting the plugins.
Just have one bypassed and assign a key on your keyboard (typing) to both the on.off switches. (CTROL/CMD + K to assign) it will then.toggle their state ;)
@@dedepvd good for you but i dont think your logic wont help that company if they gave it to you for free .. i just check and is $179 so why even reply saying u got for free u make no sense
I can understand where you are coming from, I also found it tough to spot the differences checking the XT video on apple buds pro, but on studio headphones it is really easy to hear... maybe try that?
Its just suppose to nail the vibe of the original Machine Head which it does perfectly since the original was a digital processor and the plugin is an exact 1:1 replica of the hardware. Because the original was digital the question is how close was the digital hardware processor to analog tape machines. I think the MixHead was a great emulation up until now since we now have the real Machine Head in plugin form. Great Video, Thank you.
The original Mixhead did an awful job of sounding like tape but it had a nice saturation & vibe that helped when everyone was using digital DA88, Adat etc. 😀
I'm sorry, but I see (hear) it differently. I compared them on pop and rock material (both unmastered mixes and also on drum groups, vocal groups, etc.) - and the Metric Halo beats the SPL IMHO by far. The MBS Mixhead remains more transparent and smoothes out the sibilants very nicely, the SPL Machine Head sounds thinner and smears more. With the same settings they sound totally different, the Mixhead stays closer to the bypassed signal.
In the end, it remains a subjective matter and always depends on the genre, personal taste/listening habbits and the quality of the monitoring system.
No need to be sorry, this is all extremely subjective... It might be that one is more suitable for electronic music vs. rock music. As long as you are getting the results your after, that s what matters!
Bottom end is more tape like on the SPL, the MH version is cleaner tho 🤔
The SPL is a clear winner! More low end, greater depth and wider stereo width. Great video! Your studio is amazing!
Thanks so much!
Room sim plugin is the least needed thing in this video..
Try listening on headphones ;)
@RapidFlow_Shop yes, i was listening on lcd-x, room sim sounds terrible
Great Comparison:))
Thank you, happy if it s useful to you!
I have the entire SPL RED hardware line (I'm that old) and the RED line of products were literally a copy and paste code from a set of Cubase plugins, a Tape Emulator, a brickwall limiter and a Harmonic Enhancer. Also those old SPL units had Motorola CPUs in them and were so HOT that you had to print them every time and turn them back off. But the Limiter was average but the actual star of that set was the Spectralizer which was a frequency dependent 2nd & 3rd order harmonic generator. Spectralizer was actually pretty good. It also only let you hear the effect like we see in modern plugins with the "delta" button.
Preference on the SPL hardware vs this software plugin? SPL > MH?… Paul Third spoke about these being mostly a soft clipper. Thoughts?..
@@HYPERCREATIIVE SPL Machine head is a 1 to 1 Code copy and paste of the Steinberg original Magneto v1 plugin from like 1997 which was one of the earliest quote "tape emulation" plugins. So that is the quality of the hardware's saturation. It has a flavor but its very static and pretty stale compared to anything modern. SPL paid Steinberg to port their Magneto code to the Motorola CPUs and only the Spectralizer was an original algorithm. The Machine Head is Magneto and the Brikwall Limiter is a 1 to 1 port of the Cubase brickwall limiter from the 90s. But Brainworx have added the Ultimate mode which seems to be a modern revision. The hardware sucks to be honest, the CPU is too hot and most units didn't last that long due to the heat issues. So I would not waste my money on a port of a plugin to a box, just get the plugin if you really want that flavor.
@@joesalyersappreciate your insight. Thank you ~
SPL definitely sounds better to my ears. They are very similar but the MBS is more smeared sounding and the low end is flubby
I agree, very much how I heard it without the TH-cam compression in my studio...
May i ask what the use of the auto filter at 19.9 is? Doing cause of nynquist, aliasing and such related reasons?
Very nice video. Enjoying a lot till now at min 8.
Also very nice mix. Nice low end. Kick and bass are purr fect
Hi, I juts use the filter to cut down the music when I am speaking. When it is all the way up it has a negligible impact on the signal hitting the plugins.
Sounds so Serban
Interesting. I have both. To me, the MixHead has slightly more depth. Both can be useful though depending on the material.
How you toggle the two plugins that fast ???
Just have one bypassed and assign a key on your keyboard (typing) to both the on.off switches. (CTROL/CMD + K to assign) it will then.toggle their state ;)
Spl 49
Mixhead 179
49 is the intro price. Mixhead has been out for a while. I paid $0 for Mixhead.
@@dedepvd good for you but i dont think your logic wont help that company if they gave it to you for free .. i just check and is $179 so why even reply saying u got for free u make no sense
The SPL is so much more solid, punchy, natural, bigger and “analog” sounding. I thought they would be very close, but they aren’t.
MH sounds brighter. Not harsh though. More top "silk". I like both just different.
I DUNNO.... I DUNNO. i have to disagree with your conclusion!
Fair enough 😊
These vs Slate VTM?
These
IMO these are on anither level
We left VTM in 2017 😂
You can't tell the difference with the compressed sound on TH-cam.
I would be happy if it was possible to download wav files.
192kps is plenty to hear the difference, I can
Very easy to hear the difference here.
I can understand where you are coming from, I also found it tough to spot the differences checking the XT video on apple buds pro, but on studio headphones it is really easy to hear... maybe try that?
Its just suppose to nail the vibe of the original Machine Head which it does perfectly since the original was a digital processor and the plugin is an exact 1:1 replica of the hardware. Because the original was digital the question is how close was the digital hardware processor to analog tape machines. I think the MixHead was a great emulation up until now since we now have the real Machine Head in plugin form. Great Video, Thank you.
Thank you for your feedback!
The original Mixhead did an awful job of sounding like tape but it had a nice saturation & vibe that helped when everyone was using digital DA88, Adat etc. 😀