Great review! You absolutely get it. It looks and functions like an EQ on the surface but it really is a sculpting tool that you get the most out of when you use it that way, as opposed to a traditional EQ. It’s all about pushing and pulling with boosts and cuts, the interactions between them and the way the saturation leaves the transients and details intact, allowing you to keep the integrity of the mix or sound, while bringing up details and density. Thanks for taking the time to put together such great examples!
I seriously like this EQ AKA multiband blackbox saturation. Have been using it from the moment I saw it on TH-cam and bought it and to my surprise it was very affordable.
Interesting audio from this. Yeah I know doing mix with the eyes, but that graphic display may be helpful. And mostly blue lights, so it's gotta be cool.
The uniqueness that I've found is that the saturation doesn't process transients (which the dude in the video clearly missed in the manual), but mostly everything else. Besides that it's just the classic mysterious "tons of things happening under the hood" which can mean literally anything. Does it better the sound at least a little? Yes, just like the previous Black Box plugin. Is it worth the price? Hard to say. It does have terrible frame rate and some UI visual bugs, sadly, as almost every recent Brainworx release. Customer support of Plugin Alliance is terrible at best, non-existent under normal working conditions. So you have to do the maths for yourself.
I've done a couple of masters with this since the release & it sounds great! The founder of Black Box made his own video of how he uses this & he placed the HG-2 M/S before this & use the HG-Q in M/S as well. Really nice image!
Even before adding saturation, the topology and features are unique and created from the ground up. The foundation of it is very loosely based on one of the most famous mastering EQ topologies where all the bands interact but we then made the boosts tube based (even before saturation), created the ability to cut and boost simultaneously and the ability to arrange the boost and cut in series or parallel. The result is that even without saturation it’s really musical with really unique and useful interactions between the cuts and boosts. It definitely has its own sound that isn’t really like any other EQs I can think of.
Great review! You absolutely get it. It looks and functions like an EQ on the surface but it really is a sculpting tool that you get the most out of when you use it that way, as opposed to a traditional EQ.
It’s all about pushing and pulling with boosts and cuts, the interactions between them and the way the saturation leaves the transients and details intact, allowing you to keep the integrity of the mix or sound, while bringing up details and density.
Thanks for taking the time to put together such great examples!
Hi Eric!
8:10 A very nice track. ❤❤
The saturation only affecting the decay is really nice in your examples, pretty interesting to hear
Incredibly good plugin from my experience
I seriously like this EQ AKA multiband blackbox saturation. Have been using it from the moment I saw it on TH-cam and bought it and to my surprise it was very affordable.
Interesting audio from this. Yeah I know doing mix with the eyes, but that graphic display may be helpful. And mostly blue lights, so it's gotta be cool.
Besides the visual bugs, it's going to be a go-to. It’s allowed me to decrease plugin count already. ✅
I'm not the only one with the bug, hope they fix it as soon as possible.
Great video, Marlon! This one might be a bit too fancy for me but I'm sure there's a market for it.
I used it in my projekt, it's use full, hand tool, thank you and BSS is nearly similar to hardware may be feuve dB's more needed vs hardware.
I'm gonna buy this
So it's an EQ with the HG saturation included. Does it have anything unique in it's sound?
The uniqueness that I've found is that the saturation doesn't process transients (which the dude in the video clearly missed in the manual), but mostly everything else. Besides that it's just the classic mysterious "tons of things happening under the hood" which can mean literally anything. Does it better the sound at least a little? Yes, just like the previous Black Box plugin. Is it worth the price? Hard to say. It does have terrible frame rate and some UI visual bugs, sadly, as almost every recent Brainworx release. Customer support of Plugin Alliance is terrible at best, non-existent under normal working conditions. So you have to do the maths for yourself.
I've done a couple of masters with this since the release & it sounds great! The founder of Black Box made his own video of how he uses this & he placed the HG-2 M/S before this & use the HG-Q in M/S as well. Really nice image!
Even before adding saturation, the topology and features are unique and created from the ground up.
The foundation of it is very loosely based on one of the most famous mastering EQ topologies where all the bands interact but we then made the boosts tube based (even before saturation), created the ability to cut and boost simultaneously and the ability to arrange the boost and cut in series or parallel. The result is that even without saturation it’s really musical with really unique and useful interactions between the cuts and boosts. It definitely has its own sound that isn’t really like any other EQs I can think of.
The dude did some elaborate testing before publishing and found that the transients it lets thought should be merely considered spikes at best.
Already picked it up as I had an upgrade in my account
Nice video, thanks
Where are you from ?