So true. While I have too many plugins, I try to only get what I really need and use what I need. These are just tools. Even many of the stock plugins are more useful than some people realize.
I think the whole point of this unit/plugin is that it folds back to mono with very minimal changes to the levels. So in stereo not much different from any M/S processing, but the point is that you can add width without compromising mono compability.
Wait, that is exactly what MS-widening is. the "width" cancels itself out when you switch to mono. that's the whole point. (And that's how FM radio works, by the way)
@@CarsonHoy Sure, but I spare you the math talk. Actually, a FM Broadcast signal is made of 3 signals, the sum of L+R, a.k.a. Mono, and a difference signal a.k.a. Side (L-R). The 3rd one is just a technical pilot tone for your radio. In your receiving device that signal gets decoded to stereo L/R by adding or subtracting the (L-R) signal. Perhaps you can remember that back then, when RDS wasn't a thing yet, the FM stereo signal was reduced to mono as soon as the signal quality suffered (in valleys or remote locations). That's why.
I feel like a bypass in mono would have been great. The ozone Imager, for example, does some magic to keep the signal mono compatible, so nothing changes when bypassing the plugin when in mono. This is a huge upgrade over something like a haas effect.
I got the analog version for 270 second hand and it's basically a really smooth m/s EQ. Stage to me is how much the high shelf is boosted, while Openness is what frequency the shelf is at.
Plugin doctor now has a mid side analysis mode. Get the latest update and flip the LR switch in the top right corner to MS. You’re spot on. This is simply a high shelf for the side channel only. The range control sets the frequency and the stage changes the Q and adds a pultec style cut before the boost. Unless you use the gain compensation in the advanced window it doesn’t do any auto makeup. I got this thing to null with ProQ3 no matter the setting
@@bobrv8 I've been going back and forth on that one... on the one hand: yes this is just a repackaged mid/side EQ that only effects the side (except for the bass switch which is a static bump that affects both mids and sides) but then again, people unfamiliar with the concept of mid/side EQ might find this really useful. They may not understand exactly what they're hearing or how to reproduce it yet but it's undeniably a useful tool. I for one love analyzing things in PluginDoctor and really understanding what my favorite plugins do. I always prefer using ProQ 3 to something like a Neve clone or Pultec plugin because I can see exactly what's going with nothing hidden behind controls that are oddly named. All of that said, before using SPL BIG I didn't often go for shelving high frequencies in the sides so I'm glad the plugin showed me how useful that technique can be. I'm also glad I was able to learn all of that using the trial version and am very happy achieving this effect with ProQ3. BUT ultimately their marketing jargon in this care really bothers me. They claim it isn't mid/side but it very clearly is. They also make claims about "analog tone" whatever that's supposed to mean but if the plugin completely nulls when the curves are replicated in ProQ3 that claim is demonstrably false.
Efficacy of SPL big notwithstanding, it doesn’t null against an m/s matrix when set to open on range control. Haven’t tried nulling it to ms EQ with ff or dmg yet but might try soon. I can make a video demonstrating if there’s interest.
Have the hardware and compared them both, the plugin comes kinda close but I like the hardware a LOT better. It sometimes feels like an exciter, and it can get things sounding really natural in the stereofield
Just thank you Witse! I feel like sometimes I over react to this kind of horrible marketing so once again you are actually helping my mental health. I saw the same sentence in their blurb and got angry at SPL, Plugin Alliance, Brainworx, Naitive Instruments, Izotope, and most of all whomever actually wrote and OK'ed that s*&t about loudness wars. Two words for them,,, Dan (Fing) Worrall! Love that track too. "Purpose" is usually how we differentiate "art" from design, and what a good point well made!
White Sea, thanks for your review, you have helped direct me in the right direction many times when it comes to plugins, you have reviewed, recommended.
I bought this some weeks ago and really like it. Gives some width to samples when needed. Or mono's something without phasing. I can also do it in ozone but this is easier.
I have both hardware and software version, and the HW sounds way nicer, the focus you get is awesome. Don’t overdo it obviously but yet nice! The plugin doesn’t do that at all. HW sound more 3D but on the other hand the high frequencies become harsh quickly. So i still use it but very little amount with the settings. The bass on HW is a nice saturated bump, on the SW its way too much and just EQ……. Cheers
Vitalizer, Iron, and Twintube are all pretty nice for bus processing in my experience, and can be had for pretty cheap. This one doesn't seem particularly special.
I love your stuff but I'm kinda disappointed to not see a delta test or some sort of stereo monitoring like correlator or span. Would love to see a more technical investigation on stuff like this.
Yeah stage is 100 percent the depth, not really sure how he couldn't hear that, it was very obvious even on my low end polk speakers in my living room.
I felt this plugin was a really solid quick fix, and while I agree that it is terribly overpriced for what it is and a similar result can be achieved with a M/S EQ or processor, most jobs don't pay me for the time it takes to tweak one when you're trying to marathon 35-50 tracks and if you can pick this bad boy up with one of the credits from an annual subscription, I think it's well worth it. Unfortunately it wasn't included in the recent holiday deals they were running, and I only hope that PA changes that for next year's deals because there ain't no way I would buy this for the sale price of $70, let alone $150.
Wrapping a plugin in Metaplugin while using Plugin Doctor is a way to measure mid-side. Updated: nevermind, just use the LR/MS button in the top-right corner
Check out the presets and then see if you can replicate these, because some preset sound like a frequency autopan. Anyway, I like it as a tool to make mixing much more comfortable.
I don't have an issue with plugins doing nothing special outside making it easier to do something. But that price is ridiculous. Would have been great (and would probably sold more) if it were more along the lines of 15 or 20 usd.
@@friedrichvanzandt Just because the music consumption mediums have won the loudness war, doesn't mean that non-audio-engineers who are your clients know about it.
Hi Wytse, for measuring Mid/side, and I suppose you are aware of this 'cauz you will recognize the voice of your frind in this, there is TDR Prism ;-) Thanks for that vid /// GiL
You should pay more attention to the “Stage” parameter, which has a very large influence on the sound of the “SPL Big”. It is not clear from the video how this parameter works. This information is actually what we hope to get from a review like this, the rest is more or less self-explanatory. But big thanks anyway.
Actually, loudness wars are still happening. And whoever says there isn't, needs to seriously evaluate their life in the audio industry. I've been doing this for way too got dam long. Everyone today these days are continuing to compete on who is louder. To the point that record labels these days 2022, 2023, 2024 and of course in 2025 are instructing music creators to go back into the studio and turn down their track, because now labels are getting distorted tracks submitted to them, believe it or not. We never had any of these problems in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. All of a sudden, we now have these problems. Maybe YOU have not experienced this situation yourself, doesn't mean it's not happening in the world. Because it clearly is.
Which you can also make yourself with a rack. Linear phase low pass filter into a mono plugin. Feed the output of the filter (pre mono plugin) polarity inverted, into the original dry signal in parallel. You can adjust the slope and cutoff, not the q. Everything below cutoff becomes mono and nulls out of the dry signal. Pretty simple.
Well the thing is, they explicitly stated (back when they made the hardware) that it’s not mid/side, but a filter network. So my next guess is maybe they add allpass filters to create the difference between left and right? However that’d mean that in a mono sum, you‘d get a filtered signal. And in the end, isn’t stereo width by definition the difference between the left and right signal (which is mid/side???)? I think they are contradicting themselves in the attempt to keep the processing a secret and are making everything very confusing. And on top of that: They now seem like amateurs that don’t even fully understand what mid/side means
I think the front / back stage knob is a lot more interesting than this review gave it credit for. But agree that mostly this is a simple M/S processor.
I downloaded trials for black Friday sales tests for Bloom, Hazelrigg and this one, and this is the only one I didn't buy. It really didn't do anything special at all and really just made it sound worse tbh
If it was $1 ... ok $10, then yeah fine, but $150? (well $78 at the moment and possible always.) That's dumb. I get sometimes you're paying for just that certain "something" that's super tiny. Is a Sunspel $150 tshirt better than a $30 tee? Is it 2x better? Is it 1%, 0.1%, 0.00001% better? Plugins are definite similar. Especially when something is just going to get lose in the background.
I own the hardware unit, and this plugin is pretty close. It isn't 100%, but probably if I compared my unit to another hardware unit it wouldn't be 100%. It lives on my mixbus after some preamps, and I mix through it. The BiG has got a lovely depth that I couldn't get with other plugins until this software version.
there is a loudness war. i still get clients wanting the loudest masters past the point of distortion. if i dont do it, someone else will and i wont get to eat
Depth control... when it is turned to back, sound is in the back, when you turn to Front, sound (side) comes towards you. If you listen through good speaker setup, you'll hear it.
If it is DSP efficient I see it worthwhile, PA has the Bx Control V2 that does this for the most part though. That said, if a plugin like this makes it easy then it makes sense, I don't want to be creating 3 tracks just to prove that I can do it on my own, it is not DSP efficient, I have the LISA plugin too and it is amazing but it is not DSP efficient if I want to apply it to a Guitar bus for example. So again lo-DSP? Easy to use? it is ok, the not ok part is them claiming stars and castles over a m/s processing plugin. We'll see it sold at 25$ within 24 months just like those elysia marvels, thinking nvelope which I use a lot.
maybe it's just me, but having that other screen playing in the background is completely distracting....what's with that? is it a channel that's paying you to promote them? I literally didn't hear the first several sentences because I was like....what that all about...
Problem is... There is still a loudness war... This shi.... goes so far, that the loudness warriors want to fool the streaming algos to be louder again... And the main Top 50 are under -10 LUFS ( -8, -7, -6 ) :-(
So things are good with Voldemort HQ again? 😅 Thought u were never to mention them again. Btw no problem here with NI, Kontakt 8 was a really nice update
Unfortunately, there’s a horrible amp noise or buzz of some kind in the sides of your example track. Every time you boost the sides, that’s all I can hear, so it’s impossible to judge the plugin properly.
They are all playing us guys, even UAD had the BEST 1176 and LA2A emulation, that is until of course they improved their programming to sound even closer and then they wanted the previous users to pay for the upgrade. Just use your ears and if you like it or want to pay for it go ahead, alternatively use the stock plugins that come with your daw before you even go to free ones but NEVER EVER fall for the emulation crap.
sound like it did some weird mid side shit seperating and filtering and adding some saturation and expansion loudness. It honestly feels like a 3-5 in one plugin with a turn of a knob. honestly weird and kinda dumb and newbies will waste money on it
Love the little Touch with Glenn's Playlist in the Background 🫶
For real ^^
Me too 👍
Yep, been playing Glenn's playlists for the last week or so...has he posted any updates? Hope everything is well with him!
Yeah GLENNN in the decor! Very nice ❤
Mad respect for that touch 👍
A true engineer's principle: 99% of the plug-ins being heavily advertised are unnecessary for you.
So true. While I have too many plugins, I try to only get what I really need and use what I need. These are just tools. Even many of the stock plugins are more useful than some people realize.
was thinking the same..
white sea studio needs to create a plugin and name it Snake Oil. ill buy 100%
It’ll have a ton of knobs, meters (and screws) but it’ll do nothing except maybe raise the volume a db or two upon insert.
@@BrianMagnan and name it: Revolutionary Game Changer
And it must do absolutely nothing OR at least make your mixes sound worse.
I think it has to be called: White Whale Oil.
Thanks for showing how to do mid side processing in the DAW. I learned something new today.
I think the whole point of this unit/plugin is that it folds back to mono with very minimal changes to the levels. So in stereo not much different from any M/S processing, but the point is that you can add width without compromising mono compability.
Yeah it excellent 👍
Wait, that is exactly what MS-widening is. the "width" cancels itself out when you switch to mono. that's the whole point. (And that's how FM radio works, by the way)
@@Mansardianexplain the fm radio thing please!
@@CarsonHoy Sure, but I spare you the math talk. Actually, a FM Broadcast signal is made of 3 signals, the sum of L+R, a.k.a. Mono, and a difference signal a.k.a. Side (L-R). The 3rd one is just a technical pilot tone for your radio. In your receiving device that signal gets decoded to stereo L/R by adding or subtracting the (L-R) signal. Perhaps you can remember that back then, when RDS wasn't a thing yet, the FM stereo signal was reduced to mono as soon as the signal quality suffered (in valleys or remote locations). That's why.
I feel like a bypass in mono would have been great.
The ozone Imager, for example, does some magic to keep the signal mono compatible, so nothing changes when bypassing the plugin when in mono.
This is a huge upgrade over something like a haas effect.
I got the analog version for 270 second hand and it's basically a really smooth m/s EQ. Stage to me is how much the high shelf is boosted, while Openness is what frequency the shelf is at.
Someone wrote some very bad copy in the marketing, but they didn't know what was really up, cause the plugin is actually pretty solid.
Glenn is rubbing off on you haha THERE IS NO LOUDNESS WAR ANYMORE FORM CROM'S SAKE!!!!1!! :D
Plugin doctor now has a mid side analysis mode. Get the latest update and flip the LR switch in the top right corner to MS.
You’re spot on. This is simply a high shelf for the side channel only. The range control sets the frequency and the stage changes the Q and adds a pultec style cut before the boost. Unless you use the gain compensation in the advanced window it doesn’t do any auto makeup. I got this thing to null with ProQ3 no matter the setting
yeap
"I got this thing to null with ProQ3" well in my book that is evidence of Snake Oil.
@@bobrv8 I've been going back and forth on that one... on the one hand: yes this is just a repackaged mid/side EQ that only effects the side (except for the bass switch which is a static bump that affects both mids and sides) but then again, people unfamiliar with the concept of mid/side EQ might find this really useful. They may not understand exactly what they're hearing or how to reproduce it yet but it's undeniably a useful tool.
I for one love analyzing things in PluginDoctor and really understanding what my favorite plugins do. I always prefer using ProQ 3 to something like a Neve clone or Pultec plugin because I can see exactly what's going with nothing hidden behind controls that are oddly named.
All of that said, before using SPL BIG I didn't often go for shelving high frequencies in the sides so I'm glad the plugin showed me how useful that technique can be. I'm also glad I was able to learn all of that using the trial version and am very happy achieving this effect with ProQ3.
BUT ultimately their marketing jargon in this care really bothers me. They claim it isn't mid/side but it very clearly is. They also make claims about "analog tone" whatever that's supposed to mean but if the plugin completely nulls when the curves are replicated in ProQ3 that claim is demonstrably false.
I have the analog version and it sounds great. It’s on every mix, every time.
That sentence about the “loudness wars” is proof that this plugin is geared toward those who have their own ”size” issues. Snake oil!!
Efficacy of SPL big notwithstanding, it doesn’t null against an m/s matrix when set to open on range control. Haven’t tried nulling it to ms EQ with ff or dmg yet but might try soon. I can make a video demonstrating if there’s interest.
Have the hardware and compared them both, the plugin comes kinda close but I like the hardware a LOT better. It sometimes feels like an exciter, and it can get things sounding really natural in the stereofield
Just thank you Witse! I feel like sometimes I over react to this kind of horrible marketing so once again you are actually helping my mental health. I saw the same sentence in their blurb and got angry at SPL, Plugin Alliance, Brainworx, Naitive Instruments, Izotope, and most of all whomever actually wrote and OK'ed that s*&t about loudness wars. Two words for them,,, Dan (Fing) Worrall! Love that track too. "Purpose" is usually how we differentiate "art" from design, and what a good point well made!
White Sea, thanks for your review, you have helped direct me in the right direction many times when it comes to plugins, you have reviewed, recommended.
I bought this some weeks ago and really like it. Gives some width to samples when needed. Or mono's something without phasing. I can also do it in ozone but this is easier.
9:21 I’m pretty sure Fabfilter Pro Q 3 has auto gain
I have both hardware and software version, and the HW sounds way nicer, the focus you get is awesome. Don’t overdo it obviously but yet nice! The plugin doesn’t do that at all. HW sound more 3D but on the other hand the high frequencies become harsh quickly. So i still use it but very little amount with the settings. The bass on HW is a nice saturated bump, on the SW its way too much and just EQ……. Cheers
Darude Sandstorm
Also the support for SpectreSoundStudios is awesome! 🤘
On my material it sounded really good (: Thats enough for me, quick and easy, and I had one F29 left. Nice little thing.
You should try the SPL Vitalizer.
Vitalizer, Iron, and Twintube are all pretty nice for bus processing in my experience, and can be had for pretty cheap. This one doesn't seem particularly special.
Imagine my disappointment when I wanted to get one, then the plugin came out and I almost instantly nulled it to a parallel side high pass :/
I love your stuff but I'm kinda disappointed to not see a delta test or some sort of stereo monitoring like correlator or span.
Would love to see a more technical investigation on stuff like this.
Stage is the depth, isn't it? Bigness the width, stage the depth.
He means what's under the hood. Technically
@@astrarivm No, he says at about 10min "Not sure what stage is"
Yeah stage is 100 percent the depth, not really sure how he couldn't hear that, it was very obvious even on my low end polk speakers in my living room.
You can clearly hear the mix go more towards the background or foreground when he messes with the knob
Right. It is also mentioned in both manuals, plugin and hardware (which i had for some time).
everybody asking what plugins I bought for black friday and I‘m always like „I don‘t buy plugins anymore“
I felt this plugin was a really solid quick fix, and while I agree that it is terribly overpriced for what it is and a similar result can be achieved with a M/S EQ or processor, most jobs don't pay me for the time it takes to tweak one when you're trying to marathon 35-50 tracks and if you can pick this bad boy up with one of the credits from an annual subscription, I think it's well worth it. Unfortunately it wasn't included in the recent holiday deals they were running, and I only hope that PA changes that for next year's deals because there ain't no way I would buy this for the sale price of $70, let alone $150.
Nice to see a guest appearance from Glenn in the background :) Will you ever be making a video on the Rme Dps-2 linear power supply?
Thanks for m/s explanation and demo ! I’ve learn something new today! :)
The BIG sounds better than using an eq or boosting the sides. It has depth and a 3D thickness to it somehow.
Hard to tell over RUclips audio - best tested in real life.
Lives on my mix bus now. 😂
Love how it adds static to the signal when you turn the knob up 😂
Is it added or was it there all along?
Wrapping a plugin in Metaplugin while using Plugin Doctor is a way to measure mid-side.
Updated: nevermind, just use the LR/MS button in the top-right corner
That works... But why not just switch Plugin doctor from LR to MS?
@@sparella Oh, I didn’t notice that! Thanks
When Wytze gets angry, he reminds me of Dogtanion.
I use Polyverse's free 'Wider' for individual tracks and it has a 'low bypass control which is very helpful.
Check out the presets and then see if you can replicate these, because some preset sound like a frequency autopan. Anyway, I like it as a tool to make mixing much more comfortable.
I love the SPL-Big Software version, I don't want to miss it anymore, it is now an integral part of my chain. 😎👌
Reaper is fantastic in itself, thx Wytse❤
My issue is the hardware is always louder
I don't have an issue with plugins doing nothing special outside making it easier to do something.
But that price is ridiculous. Would have been great (and would probably sold more) if it were more along the lines of 15 or 20 usd.
I learn alot just by whatching your critical comparisons
loudness war is actually worse than ever...
What do you mean?
@ records have never been as loud as they are right now. Some clients are requesting ridiculously loud mixes.
@@friedrichvanzandt Just because the music consumption mediums have won the loudness war, doesn't mean that non-audio-engineers who are your clients know about it.
@@pauliusmscichauskas558 I’m not sure how this relates to my initial statement?
@@pauliusmscichauskas558they dont have too, they play a drake song and say I want it that loud lol, they can hear
you can measure mid-side on PluginDoctor using DDMF Metaplugin and a MS encoder/decoder like Voxengo MSED
You've heard the analog unit before. Would you say it's better than this plug in? Bc this seems not worth it.. But I was considering the 500 series
I have the analog one in a 500 series and I love it!!
It sure looks good.
I have the hardware ( it’s great ) got the plug-in included with. PiA sub…not bad at all, and useful when on the road 👍
This poor guy loves pro q but forgets that it also has gain compensation
@@gangsterdistrict1154 he is not poor now
Seems like a linear phase eq with a selectable shelf in mid-side.
That mid side trick was nice!
Hi Wytse, for measuring Mid/side, and I suppose you are aware of this 'cauz you will recognize the voice of your frind in this, there is TDR Prism ;-) Thanks for that vid /// GiL
You should pay more attention to the “Stage” parameter, which has a very large influence on the sound of the “SPL Big”. It is not clear from the video how this parameter works. This information is actually what we hope to get from a review like this, the rest is more or less self-explanatory. But big thanks anyway.
Actually, loudness wars are still happening. And whoever says there isn't, needs to seriously evaluate their life in the audio industry. I've been doing this for way too got dam long.
Everyone today these days are continuing to compete on who is louder. To the point that record labels these days 2022, 2023, 2024 and of course in 2025 are instructing
music creators to go back into the studio and turn down their track, because now labels are getting distorted tracks submitted to them, believe it or not.
We never had any of these problems in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. All of a sudden, we now have these problems.
Maybe YOU have not experienced this situation yourself, doesn't mean it's not happening in the world. Because it clearly is.
Whoever says loudness wars are still happening isn't streaming their music from the big three - or four if you count RUclips.
If Stereo try acustica audio or air windows 👏🏼
That Mono Maker knob is a standard Brainworx feature. It filters the Side channel and sends everything below the set frequency to Mid.
Which you can also make yourself with a rack. Linear phase low pass filter into a mono plugin. Feed the output of the filter (pre mono plugin) polarity inverted, into the original dry signal in parallel. You can adjust the slope and cutoff, not the q. Everything below cutoff becomes mono and nulls out of the dry signal. Pretty simple.
I like your support to Glenn in the background 😊
Well the thing is, they explicitly stated (back when they made the hardware) that it’s not mid/side, but a filter network. So my next guess is maybe they add allpass filters to create the difference between left and right? However that’d mean that in a mono sum, you‘d get a filtered signal.
And in the end, isn’t stereo width by definition the difference between the left and right signal (which is mid/side???)? I think they are contradicting themselves in the attempt to keep the processing a secret and are making everything very confusing. And on top of that: They now seem like amateurs that don’t even fully understand what mid/side means
I think the front / back stage knob is a lot more interesting than this review gave it credit for. But agree that mostly this is a simple M/S processor.
There are still quite a few music producer equivalents of Hiroo Onoda.
So... Pro-Q3 plus MSED then?
They made the Utility plugin from Ableton. This is hilarious. :'D
Is this the same technology built into all of the width enhancers on the brainworx plug-ins?
Why have the text for 'Range' and 'Stage' upside down?!
Nice content but next time maybe try to open a plugin manual to know what main buttons do)
What reaper theme are you using?
snake oil studio is back
I downloaded trials for black Friday sales tests for Bloom, Hazelrigg and this one, and this is the only one I didn't buy. It really didn't do anything special at all and really just made it sound worse tbh
150?! Deliver papers for a few months and get the analog one.
Why is the Empress Out of the Rack? 😱
If it was $1 ... ok $10, then yeah fine, but $150? (well $78 at the moment and possible always.) That's dumb.
I get sometimes you're paying for just that certain "something" that's super tiny. Is a Sunspel $150 tshirt better than a $30 tee? Is it 2x better? Is it 1%, 0.1%, 0.00001% better? Plugins are definite similar. Especially when something is just going to get lose in the background.
11:20 Actually it's a filter on the side signal...
I own the hardware unit, and this plugin is pretty close. It isn't 100%, but probably if I compared my unit to another hardware unit it wouldn't be 100%. It lives on my mixbus after some preamps, and I mix through it. The BiG has got a lovely depth that I couldn't get with other plugins until this software version.
It sounds like garbage to my ears, but you do you
@@Windiguana yup 100% trash
depth ? bruv.. that..
blablablablabla
I own the hardware. I need to AB these
there is a loudness war. i still get clients wanting the loudest masters past the point of distortion. if i dont do it, someone else will and i wont get to eat
"There is no loudness war; loudness won"
Stage sounds like it’s adding reverb?
Depth control... when it is turned to back, sound is in the back, when you turn to Front, sound (side) comes towards you. If you listen through good speaker setup, you'll hear it.
If it is DSP efficient I see it worthwhile, PA has the Bx Control V2 that does this for the most part though. That said, if a plugin like this makes it easy then it makes sense, I don't want to be creating 3 tracks just to prove that I can do it on my own, it is not DSP efficient, I have the LISA plugin too and it is amazing but it is not DSP efficient if I want to apply it to a Guitar bus for example. So again lo-DSP? Easy to use? it is ok, the not ok part is them claiming stars and castles over a m/s processing plugin. We'll see it sold at 25$ within 24 months just like those elysia marvels, thinking nvelope which I use a lot.
You’re so fed up with these plugins they just make you sound sarcastic. 😂
SPL plugin does not compare to the real analog gear. Buy the analog gear, your gonna love it.
Loudness war is in quiet phase. Grab some tracks from sporty ie and you’ll see what’s the real
maybe it's just me, but having that other screen playing in the background is completely distracting....what's with that? is it a channel that's paying you to promote them? I literally didn't hear the first several sentences because I was like....what that all about...
Then it worked. You were supposed to ask. It is playing in support of Glenn at SpectreSound Studio who is away due to family medical issues.
@@sparella Got Glenn playing on a separate tab- hopefully this will help he and his wife out a bit.
I agree, it's hard to watch.
DRms by Mathew Lane ..
Elf on a shelf 😮
It's not mid-side, it's side-mid! They're totally different! /s
Problem is...
There is still a loudness war... This shi.... goes so far, that the loudness warriors want to fool the streaming algos to be louder again...
And the main Top 50 are under -10 LUFS ( -8, -7, -6 )
:-(
SPL Big → no
Goodhertz MidSide → yes
Just a little comment: you can auto-gain Pro-Q. So no need for "gain stuff" to happen ;-)
Great video.
everything is snake oil with you lol !
Evidently not - but the titles sure bring pedestrian traffic around.
Please review Applied Computer Music ACM70SA, fairchild emulation done by guys from Overtone DSP.
Unpopular opinion but I love the loudness wars.
i got your video playing on my mac mini and i got glenn on my old macbook air. 🤘
So things are good with Voldemort HQ again? 😅 Thought u were never to mention them again. Btw no problem here with NI, Kontakt 8 was a really nice update
Native Instruments is buying every company but couldn't give Maschine users a decent Maschine software? 😂😂😂😂
seems like a cash grab Plugin
Wytse, just make a null test with Reaper's JS mid side plugins. Then you hear what you are searching for. (That plugin is a waste of money, of course)
Unfortunately, there’s a horrible amp noise or buzz of some kind in the sides of your example track. Every time you boost the sides, that’s all I can hear, so it’s impossible to judge the plugin properly.
They are all playing us guys, even UAD had the BEST 1176 and LA2A emulation, that is until of course they improved their programming to sound even closer and then they wanted the previous users to pay for the upgrade. Just use your ears and if you like it or want to pay for it go ahead, alternatively use the stock plugins that come with your daw before you even go to free ones but NEVER EVER fall for the emulation crap.
sound like it did some weird mid side shit seperating and filtering and adding some saturation and expansion loudness. It honestly feels like a 3-5 in one plugin with a turn of a knob. honestly weird and kinda dumb and newbies will waste money on it
Snake oil is back.
Or use MSED for free 😅
I use MSED because I mix in Mono. But hadn't thought to use it to boost mid/side
Waste of money. I stick with the mid side eq in patcher and the maximus multiband with stereo widening of the high in FL Studio.