Such a high price for a free product !??? It's about producing music, isn't it? Music is the final product, a plugin just a tool for the product. And the product is for free, we have a surplus of music and get it for free. So why paying for a plugin, there's is also a surplus of plugins!? Makes no sense. Make at least fair prices...
Finally a scalable plugin from softube. I was thinking about selling the ones I own because I hate how bad they look on my high res screen. Please update the resolution and make them scalable like this one.
Softube just updated all their old plugins to scale their GUI. So wish granted. It was my biggest deterrent from using a couple of theirs, too small on my laptop
want it but it would probably sell 10x the amount if the price was halved. An easy profitable product, but the price is out of reach for so many of us, and i work full time in the industry.
@@listenfidi how many "flavors" of a Distressor do you need, when there's already tons of compression flavors (types/topologies like FET, VCA, Opto, Mu, etc. and a ton of different ones for each segment). There's like 4 Distressor-like plugins out there now (UAD Distressor, EL Arouser, this Mike-E and another one from an Italian company). Are you really mixing like remembering 70 different compressors when it comes to approaching compression on one particular channel? You know you can't pause time, the more options you have the more time you spend trying to figure out which flavour is needed on a particular instrument let alone actually loading tons of them just to figure out which one is the best for that particular instrument, then you realize you shouldn't judge the "favour" in Solo mode so you play the whole mix and you can barely hear the flavour anymore but the compression is there. Mixing is a fast process, I've been in the studio with a ton of big names and you have no idea how fast they work, they don't overthink their options, they have a few of them and they know them inside out and they get done with compression on a particular track in like seconds then they move on. Overthinking which kind of compression or topology flavour you need on a particular instrument is also a kind of procrastination.
@@costinvaly1 but you dont have to buy every other plugin, you can test one a one and then buy from the company which u liked the most ! That's why is good to have different flavours, every distressor plugin sounds different and behave differently ! There is nothing wrong with that. And remember, we live in capitalism, of course they will do lot of plugins from the same hardware.
@@listenfidi but trying them all out is also a problem. To demo the UAD one you need their sattelite, to try some softube compressors you need an iLok, some other compressors bleep with noise every 30 seconds, other compressors go mute every 30 seconds. I've been there. Also, are you telling yourself this same thing every year? That you have to do another shootout of dozen Compressor including the freshly released ones to make sure you're not missing out? How are you going to stay consistent with your work if you keep flipping your toolset based on what's hot? There's not really a matter of "best". Music making needs the "making" part more than the tools used to actually make it. Just a friendly reminder for your time. It's not infinite always remind yourself that.
I'm not gonna put a price on anybody's work, but as a consumer I get a much better bang for my buck with Plugin Alliance without the need of iLok. Plus they always have weekend special sales... So, sorry Softube, even if I can afford it, I'll stick with Plugin Alliance
Whoever wants more than 35 usd (today's avarage plugin price, not refering to list prices! ) nowadays (in general and especially in corona times), is simply too greedy and thus not for me, anyway
I appreciate developers like PA, IK Multimedia, Eventide, Waves for their great deals, fair prices and even some freebies in hard corona times. Softube is way too greedy for me, do not like them, it is just software!
@@ShaunNater ok, nice, that's your opinon, my opinion is Waves has one of the best plugins and some "legends" used by quite a lot for many years. I could not be without Waves, but I hate their wup. No plugin is worth more than 100 usd in 2021 imo. Softube have some nice plugins, but most can be easily replaced imo and their guitar and bass amps, well, never use them, also the gui is terrible, not user-friendly at all, PA, Nembrini or even IK Multimedia offer way better solutions here again with way better deals. For some it's a psychological thing, if the download size is big or the price is higher, some think they have a better plugin. When you are happy with whatever you use, that's fine. I am also not a fan of music produced after 1995, neither I do not like sound quality (too much compression, too many fx and too polished and overproduced, that's not what it sounds in a rehearsal room and I like dynamics, a special vibe, imperfections, the raw and real thing), nor most of the songs and I am not going to spoil my mixes with something like autotune, Ozone or Distressor, as long as I do not make edm, for this case I could use a free distressor plugin, compared it to Arouser demo and liked it more, but used it only once. As for workflow and sound quality my idols are Bruce Swedien, he hated compressors, Prince and Sly Stone, today 90% of time is spend on mixing, instead of creating, jamming and recording, but that's the way it is, times are changing, always ...Kind of Blue was recorded in 1959 in mono, that's sound quality!
I’ve wanted Empirical Labs’ Arouser plugin for YEARS, but couldn’t because I’m a touring musician producing on a laptop 90% of the time- I’ve got limited USB ports (so the dongle is a no-go). I’m incredibly excited about this partnership. Instant buy. In demos, it certainly sounds like I remember the hardware sounding :) Incredible 👏
@@najinelson6742 yeah Softube stuff is expensive but it’s all high quality. I was actually already using Mike E all over a project yesterday. Also I suspect we share the same last name ;) (Nelson, hence my handle)
@@najinelson6742 oh I’m not saying the price is a great value haha. I got a year subscription to ALL of Plugin Alliances software for the same price. But it’s still quality, and there’s not a whole lot of Distressor style plugins available. UAD (need the hardware), Arouser (need a dongle) and Sknote, which sounds good, is less expensive, but the interface/features are lacking. Softube is gonna sell a lot of licenses for these, but it’s definitely not “you need this if you don’t already have a bunch of plugins”. It’s more niche luxury software.
@@najinelson6742 Softube make great plugins specially saturation wise I do li pa plugin but the brainworx channel strip don't have a preamp and uses a clipper which is defined as thd also the lindell 80 pre emulates the 1073 module pre and lindell 50 emulates the the vxs legacy console pre which are very modern 2000 clean preamp so I use British class and american on all channel and lindell 50 and 80 on individual channels. Also brainworx has one of the most realistic 1176 people say it's a little bright that's because most 1176 has a high pass filter that filters the high also I haven't gotten a bad plugin from Softube if there would be a problem it would be the hardware limited capabilities if I push something hard with Softube I would have to oversample them with ddmf metaplugin or run them at a higher sample and use airwindows ultrasonic medium which sounds very hardware like removing aliasing is one of the secret that makes plugin sound Identical so as you push the plugin there's more aliasing so you would need to oversample them, Softube are top tier when it comes to color specially I know they can be expensive but it's not about every one of them it's about picking the ones that stand out the and that are very unique.
Wallet says "no"
Such a high price for a free product !??? It's about producing music, isn't it? Music is the final product, a plugin just a tool for the product. And the product is for free, we have a surplus of music and get it for free. So why paying for a plugin, there's is also a surplus of plugins!? Makes no sense. Make at least fair prices...
Finally a scalable plugin from softube. I was thinking about selling the ones I own because I hate how bad they look on my high res screen. Please update the resolution and make them scalable like this one.
Softube's gui are really a mess, iLok is a mess, their prices are a mess, too
Softube just updated all their old plugins to scale their GUI. So wish granted. It was my biggest deterrent from using a couple of theirs, too small on my laptop
Great sounding... just bought it. Love it on my Drums. 10/10
Me too and not regretting any of it. What a great a piece of audio gear we really have here!!!!! Well done Softube & Empirical Labs
want it but it would probably sell 10x the amount if the price was halved. An easy profitable product, but the price is out of reach for so many of us, and i work full time in the industry.
The Best!
Why is toasty above hot???
Game changer.
as if music was never possible before without this comp plugin. What about the Arouser which used to be praised to extremes, is it obsolete now? lol
@@costinvaly1 it always good to have new flavours ! it doesn't mean the previous plugins are bad.
@@listenfidi how many "flavors" of a Distressor do you need, when there's already tons of compression flavors (types/topologies like FET, VCA, Opto, Mu, etc. and a ton of different ones for each segment). There's like 4 Distressor-like plugins out there now (UAD Distressor, EL Arouser, this Mike-E and another one from an Italian company). Are you really mixing like remembering 70 different compressors when it comes to approaching compression on one particular channel? You know you can't pause time, the more options you have the more time you spend trying to figure out which flavour is needed on a particular instrument let alone actually loading tons of them just to figure out which one is the best for that particular instrument, then you realize you shouldn't judge the "favour" in Solo mode so you play the whole mix and you can barely hear the flavour anymore but the compression is there. Mixing is a fast process, I've been in the studio with a ton of big names and you have no idea how fast they work, they don't overthink their options, they have a few of them and they know them inside out and they get done with compression on a particular track in like seconds then they move on. Overthinking which kind of compression or topology flavour you need on a particular instrument is also a kind of procrastination.
@@costinvaly1 but you dont have to buy every other plugin, you can test one a one and then buy from the company which u liked the most ! That's why is good to have different flavours, every distressor plugin sounds different and behave differently ! There is nothing wrong with that. And remember, we live in capitalism, of course they will do lot of plugins from the same hardware.
@@listenfidi but trying them all out is also a problem. To demo the UAD one you need their sattelite, to try some softube compressors you need an iLok, some other compressors bleep with noise every 30 seconds, other compressors go mute every 30 seconds. I've been there. Also, are you telling yourself this same thing every year? That you have to do another shootout of dozen Compressor including the freshly released ones to make sure you're not missing out? How are you going to stay consistent with your work if you keep flipping your toolset based on what's hot? There's not really a matter of "best". Music making needs the "making" part more than the tools used to actually make it. Just a friendly reminder for your time. It's not infinite always remind yourself that.
5:33 vs 5:42
Sounds quite good but Softube prices are as always out of the market world! 35-40 usd max for me. Else I have tons of compressors... )
Is this an emulation of disstressor
It is an emulation of the hardware unit of the same name, though the compressor is based on the distressor
i like it bypassed more
I'm not gonna put a price on anybody's work, but as a consumer I get a much better bang for my buck with Plugin Alliance without the need of iLok. Plus they always have weekend special sales... So, sorry Softube, even if I can afford it, I'll stick with Plugin Alliance
Whoever wants more than 35 usd (today's avarage plugin price, not refering to list prices! ) nowadays (in general and especially in corona times), is simply too greedy and thus not for me, anyway
I appreciate developers like PA, IK Multimedia, Eventide, Waves for their great deals, fair prices and even some freebies in hard corona times. Softube is way too greedy for me, do not like them, it is just software!
@@ShaunNater ok, nice, that's your opinon, my opinion is Waves has one of the best plugins and some "legends" used by quite a lot for many years. I could not be without Waves, but I hate their wup. No plugin is worth more than 100 usd in 2021 imo. Softube have some nice plugins, but most can be easily replaced imo and their guitar and bass amps, well, never use them, also the gui is terrible, not user-friendly at all, PA, Nembrini or even IK Multimedia offer way better solutions here again with way better deals. For some it's a psychological thing, if the download size is big or the price is higher, some think they have a better plugin. When you are happy with whatever you use, that's fine. I am also not a fan of music produced after 1995, neither I do not like sound quality (too much compression, too many fx and too polished and overproduced, that's not what it sounds in a rehearsal room and I like dynamics, a special vibe, imperfections, the raw and real thing), nor most of the songs and I am not going to spoil my mixes with something like autotune, Ozone or Distressor, as long as I do not make edm, for this case I could use a free distressor plugin, compared it to Arouser demo and liked it more, but used it only once. As for workflow and sound quality my idols are Bruce Swedien, he hated compressors, Prince and Sly Stone, today 90% of time is spend on mixing, instead of creating, jamming and recording, but that's the way it is, times are changing, always ...Kind of Blue was recorded in 1959 in mono, that's sound quality!
Those screws tho😞
Makes sandstorm sound even better
@@RÅNÇIÐ Yasss
literally the most irrelevant thing to nit pick about plugins
Tighten those screw in the rack n it sound even more saturated🤣
@@111calling Exactly man haha ^^
That snare tho!!!
Looks nice ! But Softube is always to expensive
Edit: ah- but this one is just 199€ right now! 😂
Hit me up when you are at reasonable prices like 49€
exactly.
Hardware stereo distressor = 3500 € !...
@@olivierfloury5573 its a plugin not a hardware
I like this but it's not an impulse buy...
@@curtischarles5299 Softtube has the best emulating plugins... some of em are literally 1:1 coded
I’ve wanted Empirical Labs’ Arouser plugin for YEARS, but couldn’t because I’m a touring musician producing on a laptop 90% of the time- I’ve got limited USB ports (so the dongle is a no-go). I’m incredibly excited about this partnership. Instant buy. In demos, it certainly sounds like I remember the hardware sounding :) Incredible 👏
Indeed incredible expensive compared to the pretty cheap hardware price for Mike-E
@@najinelson6742 yeah Softube stuff is expensive but it’s all high quality. I was actually already using Mike E all over a project yesterday. Also I suspect we share the same last name ;) (Nelson, hence my handle)
@@najinelson6742 oh I’m not saying the price is a great value haha. I got a year subscription to ALL of Plugin Alliances software for the same price. But it’s still quality, and there’s not a whole lot of Distressor style plugins available. UAD (need the hardware), Arouser (need a dongle) and Sknote, which sounds good, is less expensive, but the interface/features are lacking. Softube is gonna sell a lot of licenses for these, but it’s definitely not “you need this if you don’t already have a bunch of plugins”. It’s more niche luxury software.
@@najinelson6742 Softube make great plugins specially saturation wise I do li pa plugin but the brainworx channel strip don't have a preamp and uses a clipper which is defined as thd also the lindell 80 pre emulates the 1073 module pre and lindell 50 emulates the the vxs legacy console pre which are very modern 2000 clean preamp so I use British class and american on all channel and lindell 50 and 80 on individual channels. Also brainworx has one of the most realistic 1176 people say it's a little bright that's because most 1176 has a high pass filter that filters the high also I haven't gotten a bad plugin from Softube if there would be a problem it would be the hardware limited capabilities if I push something hard with Softube I would have to oversample them with ddmf metaplugin or run them at a higher sample and use airwindows ultrasonic medium which sounds very hardware like removing aliasing is one of the secret that makes plugin sound Identical so as you push the plugin there's more aliasing so you would need to oversample them, Softube are top tier when it comes to color specially I know they can be expensive but it's not about every one of them it's about picking the ones that stand out the and that are very unique.