The plugin sounds less resonant (less "boing" from the actual spring). Which I prefer most of the time here. It seems to also have more low-mids (or be slightly louder?) which in isolation here, makes me prefer it too. On Male vocals, I could slightly prefer the hardware, otherwise, I must say I preferred the plugins at least 90% of the time. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
thnak you for doing this. seems like the short examples are much more damp on the hardware but things are much closer on the long versions (the hardware has some more stereo width).. I already bought TENS and i'ts pretty great
Thank you for this. There's a difference for sure but I like how Tony made the plugin less "obviously" a spring because I believe I would use it more, into a more varied material than I would originally reach for a spring. Those acoustic guitar samples are beautiful. Congrats if its your music. Cheers
Thank you so much for the demo. I prefer the sound of the hardware (has more depth) but I am going to grab the plugin soon cause I really love the sound of it. I had the Nebula Cupwise version but since it doesn't have that much of controls like the Klanghelm version has, I will def. go for that one.
Yes the hardware has a little extra mojo going on in the tails, sometimes it even sings sympathetically, like it was extending the last note. But I'd venture to say that TENS is going to work a treat in 90% of the use cases (i. e. in a mix).
Hi@@3str , totally agree on what you said. TENS is indeed very impressive against the hardware. I cannot afford the true hardware (and maintain it haha) so it's great that Klanghelm created this amazing bundle of different BX versions!
@@3str Tens worked best on the guitar track. But it misses all the small details and nonlinearities of the hardware, which makes the result so special. The plugin doesn't respect the originals punch, transients and body enough and it covers the sound while the hardware becomes a part of it, a symbiosis. Sound is hard to describe and I tried my best.
Makes perfect sense to me. I still think that the plugin will be fine "non-crtitical spaces" in a mix. The tails of the hardware are wrapping themselves around the source in a special way though, that's unmatched and makes me keep the BX15. I have also tried various impulse responses and while they're in the ball park tone-wise, they have a static feel to it. Here TENS seems way better, being algorithmic.@@nichttuntun3364
@@3str Well put, yes, the hardware wrapps itself around the audio, becoming a part of it. The variety of the tails, even the short ones, is exceptional. Tens indeed is better in this regards as other plugin springs I tried (exception is the spring from Physical Audio and PSP) and fastly deinstalled again and it's way better than any IR driven plugin. The day has yet to come when I'll be pleased by IR plugins. For me the highly praised Transatlantic Plate and the Seventh Heaven units sound dull, stiff and one-dimensional. Tens is the first effect plugin I actually bought for about 2 years. I was glad to see Toni came up with something new after a long time. But that doesn't change my capability of listening closely in a well treated studio on good monitors. And I can't deny the fact, that I'm disappointed the plugin doesn't sound better after such a long period of development.
I haven't. But over the years I've gathered a pretty big stash of spring reverb test recordings. Will post a video with an extensive shootout when I find the time..
The plugin sounds less resonant (less "boing" from the actual spring). Which I prefer most of the time here. It seems to also have more low-mids (or be slightly louder?) which in isolation here, makes me prefer it too.
On Male vocals, I could slightly prefer the hardware, otherwise, I must say I preferred the plugins at least 90% of the time.
Thanks for taking the time to do this!
This!
Thanks for taking the time to do this! I am a huge fan and user of Klanghelm tools. Great job with this shootout.
thnak you for doing this. seems like the short examples are much more damp on the hardware but things are much closer on the long versions (the hardware has some more stereo width).. I already bought TENS and i'ts pretty great
Thank you for the comparison. The hardware sounds awesome.
Thank you for this. There's a difference for sure but I like how Tony made the plugin less "obviously" a spring because I believe I would use it more, into a more varied material than I would originally reach for a spring. Those acoustic guitar samples are beautiful. Congrats if its your music. Cheers
Great video, useful info, thx
Thank you so much for the demo. I prefer the sound of the hardware (has more depth) but I am going to grab the plugin soon cause I really love the sound of it. I had the Nebula Cupwise version but since it doesn't have that much of controls like the Klanghelm version has, I will def. go for that one.
Yes the hardware has a little extra mojo going on in the tails, sometimes it even sings sympathetically, like it was extending the last note.
But I'd venture to say that TENS is going to work a treat in 90% of the use cases (i. e. in a mix).
Hi@@3str , totally agree on what you said. TENS is indeed very impressive against the hardware. I cannot afford the true hardware (and maintain it haha) so it's great that Klanghelm created this amazing bundle of different BX versions!
@@3str Tens worked best on the guitar track. But it misses all the small details and nonlinearities of the hardware, which makes the result so special. The plugin doesn't respect the originals punch, transients and body enough and it covers the sound while the hardware becomes a part of it, a symbiosis. Sound is hard to describe and I tried my best.
Makes perfect sense to me. I still think that the plugin will be fine "non-crtitical spaces" in a mix. The tails of the hardware are wrapping themselves around the source in a special way though, that's unmatched and makes me keep the BX15. I have also tried various impulse responses and while they're in the ball park tone-wise, they have a static feel to it. Here TENS seems way better, being algorithmic.@@nichttuntun3364
@@3str Well put, yes, the hardware wrapps itself around the audio, becoming a part of it. The variety of the tails, even the short ones, is exceptional.
Tens indeed is better in this regards as other plugin springs I tried (exception is the spring from Physical Audio and PSP) and fastly deinstalled again and it's way better than any IR driven plugin. The day has yet to come when I'll be pleased by IR plugins. For me the highly praised Transatlantic Plate and the Seventh Heaven units sound dull, stiff and one-dimensional.
Tens is the first effect plugin I actually bought for about 2 years. I was glad to see Toni came up with something new after a long time. But that doesn't change my capability of listening closely in a well treated studio on good monitors. And I can't deny the fact, that I'm disappointed the plugin doesn't sound better after such a long period of development.
Great! I really like Tens but the hardware has a bit more character in some cases. Have you ever done a video on Spirit reverb?
I haven't.
But over the years I've gathered a pretty big stash of spring reverb test recordings.
Will post a video with an extensive shootout when I find the time..
No contest
On the vocals the hardware sounds much better IMO, though it's also noisier. More depth and richness to the sound. Oh well.
The real thing sounds so much better. Plug ins sound flat.