I bought the fab filter bundle and I agree, it is very hard to get a good sound and sometimes I end up doing more harm than good. Wavesfactory is on a roll and quickly becoming one of my favorite companies
- I’m not talking about reviews in plugin alliance. I’m talking about industry reviews, other youtubers and people on Gearskutz. People seem to unanimously praise this plugin except costinvaly1 above ^^. What do you think of VSM-3? I haven’t tried Satin or others to compare it to.
@@costinvaly1 - I know Gearslutz is not the industry but plenty of pro and experienced users there who have praised this plugin which still makes this person above the only exception to this plugin I've come across.
Oh, this one is a no-brainer. When mixing in context with any vocal/instrument/mix/track, you can dial in ANYTHING you want, in a frequency-specific manner that I find not only easy to achieve, but the sound manipulation possibilities become literally infinite!!! Love this plugin! Thanks for this video!!!!
I went out and bought it after seeing this review... And that was money WELL spent. I'm still a noob and don't really know what the hell I'm doing, but just fiddling with this thing for a few seconds made EVERYTHING sound infinitely more satisfying to my ears. I also have Saturn already, and I concur -- it takes a lot more work to sculpt a good sound with that one.
MeldaProduction has a multiband saturator (MSaturatorMB), up to 6 bands, each with 9 type of saturation, upsampling up to 16x. It's the same category of the plugin. Maybe review/comparison of that one too, Wytse?
I wrote of melda for the interface... Boy was i wrong... I played with the free bundle, then paid for the extra options... cheap , but bloody hell..... some voodoo code in those plugs.. I think im going melda all the way.
You can also eq the sound going into a saturator. The louder the frequency, the more it will be affected by the saturator. If you want a fat bass, boost your lows going into the saturator. You can put an eq afterwards if you want
yeah i sometimes pull the mids down on muddy guitars or synths (or any annoying resonance) into a saturator and it will be cleaner allowing me to maybe add a bit more saturation
although the ui of this plugin is very nice and it uses 16x oversampling, the concept is relatively easy to replicate using Ableton Live's Audio effect racks. Create an audio effect rack with a wet and a dry signal chain, create a rack within the wet chain that contains the original signal and another chain with the polarity flipped, these will cancel each other out, but if you add an eq to one then the result of this wet chain will be the difference (any freq range you boost or cut), add your favourite saturation plugins to the end of that wet chain and you have your original signal and a difference signal with saturation applied. This same technique can be used with a compressor to create dynamic distortion (softube harmonics?) and many other unique effects. The only problem is that some plugins don't report their latency correctly and therefore create phase cancellations, comb filtering or other issues, so using ableton's native effects avoids this or you can use plugins that report latency correctly such as fabfilter plugins and lots of others. I will do a video on this at some point and have some free racks to give away as examples.
That looks really interesting! I think I’m going to go buy that thing! Thank you again for joining me in a video this weekend! It was really fun to talk to you.
Boosting adds noise of the recorded signal so, in general bad idea for a mix. Boosting on the other hand can correct losses of a recorded signal....it's a paradox within a black hole.
Do you think it can be used for lowend (kick or bass), instead of compressing, does it have advantage over this? By the way Process Audio Sugar is awesome, I bought it after your video and I'm a part of beta team. My favourite is Blackbox HG-2 also. But this multiband looks like something new. I love Fabfilter, but Saturn give me too harsh, digital and cheap sounding results no matter how many knobs I fiddle :-D
Good evening, thank you so much for your wisdom... A big hug... Master, I wanted to ask you, which is the better saturator, the black box HG2 or the specter... I have little money and I want to make a big purchase... Thank you very much, I'll be waiting day and night your answer God bless you always teacher.. 👍👍🏁🏁🏁🏆😊🎻
You can actually achieve the saturation EQ thing you describe with digital but it'll take a little more time. You could use the band splitters of reaper, and feed the bands into saturation plugins, and than boost the bands before the saturation.
Website says 69.00 euros on sale right now. There is a 30% discount now through Aug 5th. That's a pretty good value. It's not a plug-in I need, but hey, if you need this now is a good time to buy.
Have you ever tried the plugins from Plugin-Alliance? I dont like everything they have, but Ive been very impressed by quite a few of their plugins. A.o. Im pretty impressed about their amp-simulators, especially their new Diezel V4H. And I love the modified classic compresssors, like the Acme and Townhouse and also the 254E. The SSL E channelstrip and 2098 EQ quickly became favorites of mine. Id be very curious to hear what you think of these plugins.
Surfer Eq Boogie is kind of cool as well, I dig for when using like a rhodes or similar piano styles, It follows the note being played and lets you extenuate the volume and how fast it moves/responsds, I have just the Focus rite plug in version but even that one is pretty cool./? What do you Think of Monoment Bass, I picked it up and Love it, But i also play the bass, Always start with the bass in my tracks so when I saw that it had a bunch of bad reviews it threw me off a bit, as (i had already paid for it:) and i seemed to be very impressed by its range and versatillity for modern bass, Didnt know if you had a chance to check it out or not. The video of what went into the beast seems ubber legit. another plug in that ( i cant seem to quite twerk it, but know once i can it will be a dangerous tool is the Distortion Harmonics Processor by Softube-) I know I am always bringing them up, even though in my oppinion you can get if not the best/One of the best Maximers/limiters for free ( gorgeous user interface aswell from D16 called Frontier) I actually prefer that to the limiter from izotopes Rx essentials, The Wiess (crap in my oppinion) esp for the price. There is a great option to the softube 'Tilt' developed by Paul Wolffe, and I actually prefer it any day of the week it is called Pivot. Almost Identicle set up, Half the price with better sound. Its kind of a fast EQ, like when your mix, or instrument just needs the right 'nudge' in the right frequency direction, without necessarily needing, nor wanting to add a full EQ. BRO staright up no ''bullocks'' you give the most sound- no pun intended reviews and have probably saved so many musicians thousands of dollars. I know I wish I would have found your channel WAY sooner although whats cool is, I do Know what I am doing. So When I have used the same plugs I have gotten the excact same feeling. lol Its rewarding to know Im not going crazy in my old age and that the art of SOUND ENGINEERING ( from mixing to mastering is still a craft that SOME dont take with the weight of a feather) I am scared with all of these AI plugs, we are going to be well like Vynil Djs are now. ( i was one of them for 17 years too, never in a million saw surrado comming). Funny enough My Rastafari Elder set up King Tubbys recording studio in Chicago...Solid gold technics....well they looked gold from what i hear. ( you may or may not be familiar with Tubbys work) he was a ubber Genious for his time. The entire Island of JA would ask to Borrow His sound systems for Dancehalls and whatnot. His 'music system' was/is legendary and helped between Lee scratch perry, and some other Junglist ( congo Natty, the Scientist etc.) good work as always. thanks for the vid
Hum i should try this on a my masterbus and some group steem can be interesting for gluing a final mix, but i have a lot of pulltec emulation from softube and Mcdsp stuff that do already a great job, i must give à try.
I'm not sure if it qualifies as an enhancer, but I've been using the Black Box thing from Plugin Alliance for distortions and warming up tracks, etc. Have you tried this one yet? Curious to know what your hears think?
A bit of a silly reply; as it is of course also true, that a Tube-amp running for a full day in the studio sounds different than after cooling down over night and powered up next day, again. If this is the distinct variation of sound-colour: 'tube' & 'warm tube' thats actually a pretty good move, if emulated right.
I would like you to do a review of Kilohertz Multipass, in the latest Slate bundle, it can do anything, seems too good to be true, but it really can do anything.
Looking at fabfilter (129,-) and spectre (99,-) you got more control for 30 bucks. Fabfilter has user-defined MID/SIDE values, Spectre it either MID or SIDE. Fabfilter provides real-time visual feedback on the bands (clipping etc), Spectre shows the saturation range but provide no visual feedback on the processed signal .. trust your ears here (this is my biggest con for spectre). Fabfilter has an internal modulation matrix options while spectre is static. Also, the UX seems slick but changing the saturation mode or stereo/mid is done through dropdown menus. Other options like frequency and DB and Q are mouse wheel /move enabled. After some quick testing, it seems that fabfilter has less audio gaining issues than spectre. Spectre It now on sale for 69 euro, but it was also on sale for 59 euro (jun 12 2019).
You tried Roth-AIR by Daniel Rothmann yet? I think it's an enhancer as well but with only a few knobs and much less controls. Well it's free and I really like it. Ps. I was really expecting Sandstorm by Darude to be played. :(
So is this selectively saturating the signal without actually EQing at all? Meaning that if you enhance a frequency with this, it's not going to take up as much space in the mix as the equivalent boost if done using an EQ?
Its an enhancer plug so its gonna create freq content that isnt there based on what is - depending on how you set it its gonna take up more space. But it could take up the same amount of space still and sound great too.
Thank you very much! I really like your videos!! :) It is always intersting so see such plugins in the plugin doctor. Can you make it again in your next snake oil releases?
Request: I would like to have your opinion on something like these headphone amps: Little Labs Monotor. Is it worth the money? Will I get better listening in my home studio having this together with my very good Beyerdynamics 1990Pro headphones. Thank's for all your great work!
Waves would probably send you licenses, I guess, if you seperate your reviews sound and gui-wise a bit. I really like your channel and not every Waves plugin is a burner. But the TG Mastering chain for example is a great plugin. You like the Fabfilter and Izotope approach more and that's fine, but I like the Waves interfaces (again not all, but many). Nonetheless I use Izotope, Fabfilter and other companies with GUIs like those, because in the end it has to sound good. And speaking of saturation, I'd love to see your opinions on Klanghelm's SDRR. No demo, but €23 I think. Thanks for the review.
I like what I heard with smaller less moves than ya might need from other mechanisms.. and a fast way to cycle through optional coloring previews... I wouldn't probably call it a boost , as I might call it space, like adding space and saturation. I dont know but I liked it . Trying to visualize what I heard... and like the vid bro. In other words it seemed very usable IMO, and I bet one could drill much deeper and find more happy surprises.
Now I'm curious! I use the old SPL Vitalizer Mk 2-T as an enhancer (it needs maintenance here and there, since the original potentiometers aren't really the best) and I also like the plugin version. The wavesfactory interface looks stunningly simple. Since the Saturn was always way too complicated for me, I'll soon try Spectre (by the way: cool name for a plugin. Very bondish). Ah! There's a sale offer for € 69,-. That's maybe not a coincidence.
I tried Spectre this morning and bought it right away. So - thanks for the tip. The Spectre algorithm offers astonishing flexibility and the interface combines that with close to ideal simplicity. It has an issue: In Logic Spectre causes little clicks every time I activate the plugin. It creates clicks when playback starts and also, if one uses any controls on the bottom section. Not good - it also causes clicks while bouncing a project. Apart from that, it sounds a little harsher compared to the Vitalizer Mk 2-T. I feel the "subtle mode" really sounds best here.
@@thiloschacht6311 Hey, was that addressed anywhere you know? As long as it doesn't print on the track, should be good, but def would like to know why it's doing this...
I look forward to you reviewing some Plugin Alliance stuff, they are the best of the best in the plugin world (imo) with regards to how well they model the hardware. The new Focusrite EQ for instance is at the top of its game.
Saturn is a bit too much lol I laughed with you there. This plugin is actually pretty cool. I was looking at it on their website and looked for a video review. Came across your video and I got excited. I'll probably be picking it up.
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its better to cut than to boost.....WEIRDOS!!! HAAHAH
Isn't this basically what iZotope Ozone 8 exciter already does just with a different GUI and a few different saturation settings?
@THE NEWER PATRIOT Exciter is really easy to use. What you on about?
thx
thx
@THE NEWER PATRIOT thx
Ozone Exciter doesn't have shelfs and bells as saturation filtering options.
Legit one of the only reviewers I trust. Will be checking this out for sure!
Been using this one for a while and love it. Great Developer and this latest update is partly the result of feature requests. 100% worth supporting!
love your reaction to the oversampling. i was waiting to see if it was there 😝
I bought the fab filter bundle and I agree, it is very hard to get a good sound and sometimes I end up doing more harm than good. Wavesfactory is on a roll and quickly becoming one of my favorite companies
try volcano 3
except the allmighty Pro Q that is :)
Vitamin from waves has good ui and works really well, also it's a stereo enhancer
f waves
How about fabfilter volcano? You can set eq bands and color them with the same kinds of excitement and saturation
Finally a positive review...jk😂😂...high standards lead to better quality...love your videos keep it up
Did he said "better than Fab filter"??? The skies are gonna crack and fall...
So what? He likes and uses fabfilters, he can absolutely have an opinion. That doesn't mean fabfilters suck now.
@@rpm4679 did you know the word "sarcasm"? Relax man.
@@cristianpadilla8885 ooh boy.
I tell you what! It matters more how great the music is! ;)
@@UnknownHumanoid wise man said!
Another saturation plugin you definitely should look into: Vertigo VSM-3
@@costinvaly1 - Yours is the only negative review of this plugin I've come across anywhere online. Just saying...
@@costinvaly1 Got it. Is there a saturation plugin you like?
@andrew_bakersfield - what do you think of VSM-3?
- I’m not talking about reviews in plugin alliance. I’m talking about industry reviews, other youtubers and people on Gearskutz. People seem to unanimously praise this plugin except costinvaly1 above ^^. What do you think of VSM-3? I haven’t tried Satin or others to compare it to.
@@costinvaly1 - I know Gearslutz is not the industry but plenty of pro and experienced users there who have praised this plugin which still makes this person above the only exception to this plugin I've come across.
Cool! That seal of approval means a lot coming from this channel.
Something similar would probably be the ozone exciter which sounds very good too
Ozone 8 Exciter seems very similar. Multi band with selectable saturation types per band.
Wow you almost nailed the pronunciation, kudos to you (it was 95% there, the first consonant a little stronger/stressed and u're 100% there).
Oh, this one is a no-brainer. When mixing in context with any vocal/instrument/mix/track, you can dial in ANYTHING you want, in a frequency-specific manner that I find not only easy to achieve, but the sound manipulation possibilities become literally infinite!!! Love this plugin! Thanks for this video!!!!
You could try Toneboosters Tb enhancer. Much cheaper, but less different colouring modes.
I'm shocked. Nut now I have to try it. You liked it. Wow!
I went out and bought it after seeing this review... And that was money WELL spent. I'm still a noob and don't really know what the hell I'm doing, but just fiddling with this thing for a few seconds made EVERYTHING sound infinitely more satisfying to my ears. I also have Saturn already, and I concur -- it takes a lot more work to sculpt a good sound with that one.
MeldaProduction has a multiband saturator (MSaturatorMB), up to 6 bands, each with 9 type of saturation, upsampling up to 16x. It's the same category of the plugin. Maybe review/comparison of that one too, Wytse?
I wrote of melda for the interface... Boy was i wrong... I played with the free bundle, then paid for the extra options... cheap , but bloody hell..... some voodoo code in those plugs..
I think im going melda all the way.
You can also eq the sound going into a saturator. The louder the frequency, the more it will be affected by the saturator. If you want a fat bass, boost your lows going into the saturator. You can put an eq afterwards if you want
yeah i sometimes pull the mids down on muddy guitars or synths (or any annoying resonance) into a saturator and it will be cleaner allowing me to maybe add a bit more saturation
@@joaquinbaume1291 Same! It works wonders
although the ui of this plugin is very nice and it uses 16x oversampling, the concept is relatively easy to replicate using Ableton Live's Audio effect racks. Create an audio effect rack with a wet and a dry signal chain, create a rack within the wet chain that contains the original signal and another chain with the polarity flipped, these will cancel each other out, but if you add an eq to one then the result of this wet chain will be the difference (any freq range you boost or cut), add your favourite saturation plugins to the end of that wet chain and you have your original signal and a difference signal with saturation applied. This same technique can be used with a compressor to create dynamic distortion (softube harmonics?) and many other unique effects. The only problem is that some plugins don't report their latency correctly and therefore create phase cancellations, comb filtering or other issues, so using ableton's native effects avoids this or you can use plugins that report latency correctly such as fabfilter plugins and lots of others. I will do a video on this at some point and have some free racks to give away as examples.
did you ever made an example off this?
I haven’t put it up for download but yeah I made examples of this some years ago. I’ll link you something soon.
@@RobertKgmalookin ahhh..
Maybe a snake oil-test on SSL's native plugins? Love your vids btw
I would've loved to see what it does to the high end
That looks really interesting! I think I’m going to go buy that thing!
Thank you again for joining me in a video this weekend! It was really fun to talk to you.
Boosting adds noise of the recorded signal so, in general bad idea for a mix. Boosting on the other hand can correct losses of a recorded signal....it's a paradox within a black hole.
14 year old Lucy who streams her music from Spotify really, really does not care.
There is one rule: "If it sounds right then it is right".
I accidentally put the gui on 200% and now it's too big to minimise. lol 😒
😂😂😂 That happened to me with the vst synth Synth
can you change the scaling on your monitor?
Change scaling on your display settings in windows to a small percentage and then it will all be visible
Genius 🤣🤣🤣🙏
Delete the preferences lol
Very good plugin! And review. The reason why he is critical of most plugins is that in fact most plugins are either generic or just plain snake oil.
Do you think it can be used for lowend (kick or bass), instead of compressing, does it have advantage over this? By the way Process Audio Sugar is awesome, I bought it after your video and I'm a part of beta team. My favourite is Blackbox HG-2 also. But this multiband looks like something new. I love Fabfilter, but Saturn give me too harsh, digital and cheap sounding results no matter how many knobs I fiddle :-D
Yes! I love spectre man I've been using it for almost 2 years now and it's one of my go to's. So awesome!
I can give with that some warmth I constantly miss a bit on my custom synths! Nice
It reminds me of Waves Vitamins 👍
Great review
I like that you keep the darude sandstorm meme alive in 2019
I was half hoping he would actually use it
Amazing video Wytse! As always so crystal clear :)
Nice one Wytse, Thanks for the review. This looks really interesting.
Im a huge fan of Decapitator I use it as an eq to , this one looks fun im sure its very handy and easy to use
Do you work with Tokyo Dawn? Glorious.
Good evening, thank you so much for your wisdom... A big hug... Master, I wanted to ask you, which is the better saturator, the black box HG2 or the specter... I have little money and I want to make a big purchase... Thank you very much, I'll be waiting day and night your answer God bless you always teacher.. 👍👍🏁🏁🏁🏆😊🎻
Please, snake oil the "Noveltech Vocal Enhancer"
This a pretty good plugin, I use it in all my mixes, the mid, side, stereo, l or r mode makes it super precise
Very interesting. I'll have to check this thing out.
You can actually achieve the saturation EQ thing you describe with digital but it'll take a little more time. You could use the band splitters of reaper, and feed the bands into saturation plugins, and than boost the bands before the saturation.
Website says 69.00 euros on sale right now. There is a 30% discount now through Aug 5th. That's a pretty good value. It's not a plug-in I need, but hey, if you need this now is a good time to buy.
is it a good idea to use it on rap VOX?
Have you ever tried the plugins from Plugin-Alliance? I dont like everything they have, but Ive been very impressed by quite a few of their plugins. A.o. Im pretty impressed about their amp-simulators, especially their new Diezel V4H. And I love the modified classic compresssors, like the Acme and Townhouse and also the 254E. The SSL E channelstrip and 2098 EQ quickly became favorites of mine. Id be very curious to hear what you think of these plugins.
❤❤❤ me too.
Do you think this is better than black box hg-q?
I might be wrong but Saturn split bands then pass that through saturation, but Spectre adds ONLY the harmonics.
This is a great tool! I love it. I don't use it all the time ... but when I need it, it surely delivers!
Surfer Eq Boogie is kind of cool as well, I dig for when using like a rhodes or similar piano styles, It follows the note being played and lets you extenuate the volume and how fast it moves/responsds, I have just the Focus rite plug in version but even that one is pretty cool./?
What do you Think of Monoment Bass, I picked it up and Love it, But i also play the bass, Always start with the bass in my tracks so when I saw that it had a bunch of bad reviews it threw me off a bit, as (i had already paid for it:) and i seemed to be very impressed by its range and versatillity for modern bass, Didnt know if you had a chance to check it out or not. The video of what went into the beast seems ubber legit.
another plug in that ( i cant seem to quite twerk it, but know once i can it will be a dangerous tool is the Distortion Harmonics Processor by Softube-) I know I am always bringing them up, even though in my oppinion you can get if not the best/One of the best Maximers/limiters for free ( gorgeous user interface aswell from D16 called Frontier) I actually prefer that to the limiter from izotopes Rx essentials, The Wiess (crap in my oppinion) esp for the price.
There is a great option to the softube 'Tilt' developed by Paul Wolffe, and I actually prefer it any day of the week it is called Pivot. Almost Identicle set up, Half the price with better sound. Its kind of a fast EQ, like when your mix, or instrument just needs the right 'nudge' in the right frequency direction, without necessarily needing, nor wanting to add a full EQ.
BRO staright up no ''bullocks'' you give the most sound- no pun intended reviews and have probably saved so many musicians thousands of dollars. I know I wish I would have found your channel WAY sooner although whats cool is, I do Know what I am doing. So When I have used the same plugs I have gotten the excact same feeling. lol Its rewarding to know Im not going crazy in my old age and that the art of SOUND ENGINEERING ( from mixing to mastering is still a craft that SOME dont take with the weight of a feather) I am scared with all of these AI plugs, we are going to be well like Vynil Djs are now. ( i was one of them for 17 years too, never in a million saw surrado comming). Funny enough My Rastafari Elder set up King Tubbys recording studio in Chicago...Solid gold technics....well they looked gold from what i hear. ( you may or may not be familiar with Tubbys work) he was a ubber Genious for his time. The entire Island of JA would ask to Borrow His sound systems for Dancehalls and whatnot. His 'music system' was/is legendary and helped between Lee scratch perry, and some other Junglist ( congo Natty, the Scientist etc.) good work as always. thanks for the vid
Hum i should try this on a my masterbus and some group steem can be interesting for gluing a final mix, but i have a lot of pulltec emulation from softube and Mcdsp stuff that do already a great job, i must give à try.
Sounds good thanks for bringing this to my attention.
You said other enhancers... i quite like Kush Audio’s ‘Pusher’ tape oxide saturator. Different mixes of tape oxide. Sounds good!
Great review!
I love spectre. I use it all the time. Love wavesfactory's Trackspacer too.
Love this review thank you!
Relatively new mixer and this plugin definitely makes my mixes better and like he said is super easy to use
I'm not sure if it qualifies as an enhancer, but I've been using the Black Box thing from Plugin Alliance for distortions and warming up tracks, etc. Have you tried this one yet? Curious to know what your hears think?
Warm tube is a little bit warmer than Tube.
A bit of a silly reply; as it is of course also true, that a Tube-amp running for a full day in the studio sounds different than after cooling down over night and powered up next day, again. If this is the distinct variation of sound-colour: 'tube' & 'warm tube' thats actually a pretty good move, if emulated right.
Try the Tone Boosters Enhancer. Also Fielding Dsp Reviver is a very neat plugin. Both are cheap btw
I use their TrackSpacer plugin. It's very useful!
Kiloheartz plugins! See if you can check them out
What about the iZotope Exciter? Is it good or not?
i love the sound!
Audiority Harmonic Maximiser? UI is better in this of course but the sound? I guess I'll have to try this now !
I would like you to do a review of Kilohertz Multipass, in the latest Slate bundle, it can do anything, seems too good to be true, but it really can do anything.
Oh yeah I like that a lot! It brings the bass to life
Why won't Waves send you any plugins did you blast them ?
Looking at fabfilter (129,-) and spectre (99,-) you got more control for 30 bucks. Fabfilter has user-defined MID/SIDE values, Spectre it either MID or SIDE. Fabfilter provides real-time visual feedback on the bands (clipping etc), Spectre shows the saturation range but provide no visual feedback on the processed signal .. trust your ears here (this is my biggest con for spectre). Fabfilter has an internal modulation matrix options while spectre is static. Also, the UX seems slick but changing the saturation mode or stereo/mid is done through dropdown menus. Other options like frequency and DB and Q are mouse wheel /move enabled. After some quick testing, it seems that fabfilter has less audio gaining issues than spectre. Spectre It now on sale for 69 euro, but it was also on sale for 59 euro (jun 12 2019).
They work quite well in tandem.
LOVE THE SNAKE OIL SERIES
wish you would make a playlist of those videos to binge watch haha :P
Just tried it, it is actually amazing.
You tried Roth-AIR by Daniel Rothmann yet? I think it's an enhancer as well but with only a few knobs and much less controls. Well it's free and I really like it.
Ps. I was really expecting Sandstorm by Darude to be played. :(
So is this selectively saturating the signal without actually EQing at all? Meaning that if you enhance a frequency with this, it's not going to take up as much space in the mix as the equivalent boost if done using an EQ?
Its an enhancer plug so its gonna create freq content that isnt there based on what is - depending on how you set it its gonna take up more space. But it could take up the same amount of space still and sound great too.
Thank you very much!
I really like your videos!! :)
It is always intersting so see such plugins in the plugin doctor.
Can you make it again in your next snake oil releases?
Request: I would like to have your opinion on something like these headphone amps: Little Labs Monotor. Is it worth the money? Will I get better listening in my home studio having this together with my very good Beyerdynamics 1990Pro headphones. Thank's for all your great work!
Think you can do a snake oil on fire cobra's firesonic?
Thats a useful (and one of just a few) review(s) of this plugin! Thanks!👍🏼
Isn't this something for you to try out..? McDSP APB-16
I do a lot of cutting EQ's, but this is exactly what I'm looking for when boosting EQ's.
What track are you using to demo this?
Hey! Can you snake oil the noizeash pultec eq please? :)
5:34 sounds like the beginning of still lovely by banes world :v
Waves would probably send you licenses, I guess, if you seperate your reviews sound and gui-wise a bit.
I really like your channel and not every Waves plugin is a burner. But the TG Mastering chain for example is a great plugin. You like the Fabfilter and Izotope approach more and that's fine, but I like the Waves interfaces (again not all, but many). Nonetheless I use Izotope, Fabfilter and other companies with GUIs like those, because in the end it has to sound good.
And speaking of saturation, I'd love to see your opinions on Klanghelm's SDRR. No demo, but €23 I think.
Thanks for the review.
I like what I heard with smaller less moves than ya might need from other mechanisms.. and a fast way to cycle through optional coloring previews... I wouldn't probably call it a boost , as I might call it space, like adding space and saturation. I dont know but I liked it . Trying to visualize what I heard... and like the vid bro.
In other words it seemed very usable IMO, and I bet one could drill much deeper and find more happy surprises.
Isn't this the same kind of thing as Waves Vitamin and Process Audio's Sugar?
thought the same about sugar
He reviewed Sugar already and basically trashed it.. so I'd say no, they are not the same.
Just added this to a drum buss then a bass and g'damn, sounds amazing.
2:39 LOL it's like having 2 legs and decide to hop
This is to me the most slept on tool I have. This is the perfect substitute to additive EQ. My plugin of the year in 2023 so far at least.
Very nice plug in
Now I'm curious! I use the old SPL Vitalizer Mk 2-T as an enhancer (it needs maintenance here and there, since the original potentiometers aren't really the best) and I also like the plugin version.
The wavesfactory interface looks stunningly simple. Since the Saturn was always way too complicated for me, I'll soon try Spectre (by the way: cool name for a plugin. Very bondish).
Ah! There's a sale offer for € 69,-. That's maybe not a coincidence.
I tried Spectre this morning and bought it right away. So - thanks for the tip.
The Spectre algorithm offers astonishing flexibility and the interface combines that with close to ideal simplicity.
It has an issue: In Logic Spectre causes little clicks every time I activate the plugin. It creates clicks when playback starts and also, if one uses any controls on the bottom section. Not good - it also causes clicks while bouncing a project.
Apart from that, it sounds a little harsher compared to the Vitalizer Mk 2-T. I feel the "subtle mode" really sounds best here.
Here's what it does on strings and piano:
schachttoene.de/Kundenbereich/Transfer/Angelina_Snippet_Roughmix.wav
And here are the clicks:
schachttoene.de/Kundenbereich/Transfer/Spectre_Clicks.mp4
@@thiloschacht6311 Hey, was that addressed anywhere you know? As long as it doesn't print on the track, should be good, but def would like to know why it's doing this...
i use this, glad you aprove, its quite a plugin to be true really
Similar to Vitamin by waves, i love the different excitment types (warm,tube etc.). Think im gonna buy this one..
Great Review!!!!
I totally agree, Great Analog Saturation in The BOX!!!
I look forward to you reviewing some Plugin Alliance stuff, they are the best of the best in the plugin world (imo) with regards to how well they model the hardware. The new Focusrite EQ for instance is at the top of its game.
Quite surprising to see a plugin that works as advertised.
What is the song?
Tell us about manlay hardware plzzz
This thing is NICE.
Saturn is a bit too much lol I laughed with you there. This plugin is actually pretty cool. I was looking at it on their website and looked for a video review. Came across your video and I got excited. I'll probably be picking it up.
Is this basically a stripped down version of Izotope Trash 2?
Awesome plugin
Wow! Looks and sounds amazing!