Elysia Phil's Cascade was the first plugin built in this way as far as I know and weird enough everything I wished that Phil's Cascade would be is now in NEOLD Wunderlich! great job guys at NEOLD you guys read minds and hearts
Man every time I see one of your video popping up - I know I’m going to neeeed that plugin in my workflow Thanks for such high quality curation, picking up the jewels of the INtheBox world
I think elysia did the one off hardware prototype thing with Phil’s Cascade for Plugin Alliance years ago so they might be the ones to credit for such cool commitment to emulations. Love your run throughs! Keep em coming. ✌️
Thanks for the review! The plugin does sound great! Really loved this song ‘The rough side drag’ by Jay Sparrow! One of the best songs I heard lately 👍🏼
Amazing work as always big bro!! Now I'm here wishing NEOLD could release the shelving EQ from this thing as its own module!😂 Keep the great work coming.. I'm here for it!✨
@@mr_bradsmith Yes that’s right, it’s a Tree Audio Branch emulation. I’ve only just recently picked it up and have been using it as a mojo vibe plugin. I’ve found myself going down the Acustica rabbit hole a bit, along with Nebula. I really like some of the Nebula stuff but the setup is a pain. I switched over to Reaper, which makes it easier, as there are a couple of tricks I use to lay the Nebula plugins out better. And, no, you didn’t lose me. I’ve been watching all your reviews and always love your them. I’m glad you remember me. Last year was a tough year. My son, who has a disability, ended up in the hospital for a while so we spent most of the year helping with his recovery. All is much better now. I’ve been keeping up on all the music stuff but staying a bit low key. I saw you took a bit of a hiatus yourself, so good to see you back again as well. I’ll make sure to chime in more often. Your vids really are some of the best - very honest road tests filled with solid real world knowledge. Cheers!
I’m grateful you’re still watching, Jim. And thank you for the kind words :) I am very sorry to hear about your son’s health and the difficult year. And I’m happy things are much better. That’s great news! My hiatus over the last year was also family health related unfortunately. So I can certainly understand keeping things low key. Grateful to be back making videos though as it is a nice creative outlet. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on any upcoming reviews!
@@mr_bradsmith Hey Brad, I'm glad to hear things are better on your end as well. I hope it wasn't overly serious. My best to you and your kin. I have to say that the last year really opened my eyes to the healing powers of music. Not in any mystical sense, but there is something buoyant and binding in listening to music, playing music, working with and being creatively engaged with it. This was true for our whole family, whether we were nostalgically holding onto our comfort bands or songs, or picking up a vinyl copy of The Muppets Christmas Carol soundtrack 🙂. Anyway, it did seem to help keep us afloat in some way. I did get a chance to try out Wunderlich last night and this morning, and A/B it against Mystic. It wasn't extensive. I just applied it on a vocal track. My initial impression is they are very much the same, or at least seem to have similar intentions and applications. I'm not even sure I can definitively say which I like best. There are elements of both I like more in one than the other, but not drastically. In general, my impression with Mystic is it's a bit more 3-D and a little brighter edged. But Wunderlich has a bit more grit and more of that mojo flavour. Definitely the drive in Wunderlich has that pleasant distortion, that you can ratchet down to taste. I wasn't able to get Mystic to break up in that same way. There's also an obvious difference in the compressors. The Mu is definitely gooey-er and some nice weight, a bit sporadic though, depending on the speed applied. The Mystic has more of an opto flavour, which is also really pleasant. Hard to describe the real difference. Maybe I can say the Mu is a bit darker and girthier, and the opto rides things a bit more and has sheen. But I'm not sure if those are accurate descriptions. In terms of the "Travel" filter on Wunderlich versus Mystic, I think I liked the Mystic filter a bit better. The high cut on Mystic sounds to me like it darkens gradually and musically, whereas the Wunderlich feels a bit all-or-nothing and it just kind of dampens the high end too drastically. As for the Mix knobs, I believe Wunderlich's is slightly more effective and easier to dial in a sweet spot. I'm not sure the Mystic Mix knob does much actually - the GUI is a little janky and the range feels too tight. I have other Acustica stuff, like El Rey 2, where the Mix knob is really, really effective and sounds great, and you can really dial a good parallel compression into it. Overall, for mojo, I'm leaning towards Wunderlich, but there is something nice that happens with Mystic as well. It's a toss up. Looking forward to your next one.
can you just use a good saturator and high pass filter inside of one? Its super cheap right now, but dont know if itll just be another plugin i can get the same results out of w.e i already have..
Both are vari-mu compressors with similar feels. The Wunderlich feels a bit more grabby to me and harder to use subtly. If I were to just be comparing the compressor to say the UAD Fairchild, I would choose the UAD. But certainly the Wunderlich as an overall tone shaping box has a few more bells and whistles included.
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Wow, what a review! Great detail and well-founded comments... really cool. Thank you very much for spending the time and sharing this.
Glad you dig the review! Thank you. Beautiful sounding plugin and I love how you folks cook these things up. Very unique! Congrats on the release!
Elysia Phil's Cascade was the first plugin built in this way as far as I know and weird enough everything I wished that Phil's Cascade would be is now in NEOLD Wunderlich! great job guys at NEOLD you guys read minds and hearts
One of the best plugins out there, Neold also owns Fuse Audio Labs, which has a lot of incredible plugin emulations.
@@aviatedviewssound4798 I didn't know they owned Fuse Audio Labs too, that company is a hidden gem!
I had to comment on this video. I love the originality of your approach to the review process. Please keep being you. Thanks for the insights. :)
What a wonderful message to receive! Thank you! Fills up the tanks. I’m glad you dig the video!
Man every time I see one of your video popping up - I know I’m going to neeeed that plugin in my workflow
Thanks for such high quality curation, picking up the jewels of the INtheBox world
Those are very kind words! Thank you! I’m pumped you dig the reviews!
Really love the drive of this thing. Its a really nice distortion. Got many creative uses for pushing it.
The drive sounds great. Hard to make sound bad!
Terrific and thorough review - and a fun presentation too. Great job
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the review :)
I think elysia did the one off hardware prototype thing with Phil’s Cascade for Plugin Alliance years ago so they might be the ones to credit for such cool commitment to emulations. Love your run throughs! Keep em coming. ✌️
It’s coming from the same team ;-)
Thanks, Gus! I'm glad you're digging the reviews :)
Great review & overview here. Would love to see one on the NEOLD V76U73 too!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I will add the V76 to the list!
@@mr_bradsmith Sweet! Looking forward to seeing more from you.
Thanks for the review! The plugin does sound great! Really loved this song ‘The rough side drag’ by Jay Sparrow! One of the best songs I heard lately 👍🏼
Thanks! Glad you dig the track! Mr. Sparrow just put out a new record a couple of weeks ago actually. Pretty different vibe though.
Yea man. I'm vibing on the track and ignoring half the video. Lmao. Sorry Mr Smith... I will rewatch. Hahahaha.
@@jamescuttsmusicjcm5013 Glad you dig the track!
Amazing work as always big bro!! Now I'm here wishing NEOLD could release the shelving EQ from this thing as its own module!😂
Keep the great work coming.. I'm here for it!✨
Thank you! Feels like I'm getting back into the groove of things. Grateful for the support 🤘🤘
I'm just here for the ASMR... miss you Brad!
Haha! Thanks Kelsey. Your new renter is a gem! Miss you, too!
Reminds me a bit of Acustica's Mystic. I'm going to have to do an A/B against that one.
Jim! Great to hear from you! Was worried I lost ya. Haven’t tried that Mystic yet. That’s the Tree Branch strip emulation isn’t it?
@@mr_bradsmith Yes that’s right, it’s a Tree Audio Branch emulation. I’ve only just recently picked it up and have been using it as a mojo vibe plugin. I’ve found myself going down the Acustica rabbit hole a bit, along with Nebula. I really like some of the Nebula stuff but the setup is a pain. I switched over to Reaper, which makes it easier, as there are a couple of tricks I use to lay the Nebula plugins out better.
And, no, you didn’t lose me. I’ve been watching all your reviews and always love your them. I’m glad you remember me. Last year was a tough year. My son, who has a disability, ended up in the hospital for a while so we spent most of the year helping with his recovery. All is much better now. I’ve been keeping up on all the music stuff but staying a bit low key. I saw you took a bit of a hiatus yourself, so good to see you back again as well. I’ll make sure to chime in more often. Your vids really are some of the best - very honest road tests filled with solid real world knowledge. Cheers!
I’m grateful you’re still watching, Jim. And thank you for the kind words :)
I am very sorry to hear about your son’s health and the difficult year. And I’m happy things are much better. That’s great news! My hiatus over the last year was also family health related unfortunately. So I can certainly understand keeping things low key. Grateful to be back making videos though as it is a nice creative outlet. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on any upcoming reviews!
@@mr_bradsmith Hey Brad, I'm glad to hear things are better on your end as well. I hope it wasn't overly serious. My best to you and your kin.
I have to say that the last year really opened my eyes to the healing powers of music. Not in any mystical sense, but there is something buoyant and binding in listening to music, playing music, working with and being creatively engaged with it. This was true for our whole family, whether we were nostalgically holding onto our comfort bands or songs, or picking up a vinyl copy of The Muppets Christmas Carol soundtrack 🙂. Anyway, it did seem to help keep us afloat in some way.
I did get a chance to try out Wunderlich last night and this morning, and A/B it against Mystic. It wasn't extensive. I just applied it on a vocal track. My initial impression is they are very much the same, or at least seem to have similar intentions and applications. I'm not even sure I can definitively say which I like best. There are elements of both I like more in one than the other, but not drastically. In general, my impression with Mystic is it's a bit more 3-D and a little brighter edged. But Wunderlich has a bit more grit and more of that mojo flavour. Definitely the drive in Wunderlich has that pleasant distortion, that you can ratchet down to taste. I wasn't able to get Mystic to break up in that same way. There's also an obvious difference in the compressors. The Mu is definitely gooey-er and some nice weight, a bit sporadic though, depending on the speed applied. The Mystic has more of an opto flavour, which is also really pleasant. Hard to describe the real difference. Maybe I can say the Mu is a bit darker and girthier, and the opto rides things a bit more and has sheen. But I'm not sure if those are accurate descriptions. In terms of the "Travel" filter on Wunderlich versus Mystic, I think I liked the Mystic filter a bit better. The high cut on Mystic sounds to me like it darkens gradually and musically, whereas the Wunderlich feels a bit all-or-nothing and it just kind of dampens the high end too drastically. As for the Mix knobs, I believe Wunderlich's is slightly more effective and easier to dial in a sweet spot. I'm not sure the Mystic Mix knob does much actually - the GUI is a little janky and the range feels too tight. I have other Acustica stuff, like El Rey 2, where the Mix knob is really, really effective and sounds great, and you can really dial a good parallel compression into it. Overall, for mojo, I'm leaning towards Wunderlich, but there is something nice that happens with Mystic as well. It's a toss up.
Looking forward to your next one.
@@jimslominski8006 Thanks for A/B notes, Jim! I will definitely have to give that Mystic a go!
can you just use a good saturator and high pass filter inside of one? Its super cheap right now, but dont know if itll just be another plugin i can get the same results out of w.e i already have..
Certainly you can use other saturation plugins that have filtering included. Definitely an option.
How does this compare to a fairchild?
Both are vari-mu compressors with similar feels. The Wunderlich feels a bit more grabby to me and harder to use subtly. If I were to just be comparing the compressor to say the UAD Fairchild, I would choose the UAD. But certainly the Wunderlich as an overall tone shaping box has a few more bells and whistles included.