Such a great review. Thank you for sharing your great work. It makes you wonder how something so fundamental took so long to appear as a fully mature plug in
Interested to hear your view on what the benefits are (beyond it being all in one plugin) of using SplitEQ versus a good transient shaper and stereo imager? Perhaps a better test than trying to copy the curves from SplitEQ into a typical clean digital EQ - which is going to produce very different outcomes?
Yes it would be interesting to hear it compared to other transient shapers. The main advantage for me is being able to bring out transients or reduce sustain at any frequency area at the same time. You can really shape the sound all in one window. Also like the sound Eventide's transient algorithm better than any of the others I've heard. But that's just personal preference.
Eventide can make it much more useful by simply embedding MS processing of individual bands. I don't understand why they didn't add this feature right away, I do it inside the DAW by creating a copy of the track for MS processing, but inside one plugin it would be much more convenient.
If you had to change the low boost band to dynamic in the first example, would that sound the same? I’m skeptical of this plugin being just dynamic EQ boost
One point that was unclear. You discussed the area of separation, decay and smoothness in the beginning, but on the Bass section, those changed to 99% instead of 50% for most of the other tracks, and 75% for the decay, instead of 30%, big differences. So was there a correlation with those differences compared to the other tracks, since you didn't discuss or cover those any further on each of the track examples. Thanks....
Such a shame that an otherwise greatly thought out plugin has super obvious cramping when using bells. Eventide are a great company so I hope it's something they sort out in the next update.
I usually work at 88.2 or 96 kHz and it doesn't cramp noticeably at those rates so I didn't notice. But you're right it does cramp at 44.1 and 48 and many of my clients work at those rates. Probably not an issue for me as I'm unlikely to need to do much with transients above 10k where the serious cramping happens, but still I hope they fix this.
@@heronislandstudio8054 yeah fair. I’m the same in terms of sample rate but it largely isn’t my choice and is so client dependant that it is an issue. I tend to use bells instead of shelves and if this wasn’t the case, it really wouldn’t be an issue. Fingers crossed it is addressed though before the intro sale is finished. Been stung before blindly hoping a company fixes cramping in their next update.
@@thegroove2000 Peter, a Dev from Eventide, got in touch through the comments in another video. He said they are aware of the cramping and will be tackling it in an update!
Such a great review. Thank you for sharing your great work.
It makes you wonder how something so fundamental took so long to appear as a fully mature plug in
Cheers! Yes I think this plugin is going to save me a lot of time.
Interested to hear your view on what the benefits are (beyond it being all in one plugin) of using SplitEQ versus a good transient shaper and stereo imager? Perhaps a better test than trying to copy the curves from SplitEQ into a typical clean digital EQ - which is going to produce very different outcomes?
Yes it would be interesting to hear it compared to other transient shapers. The main advantage for me is being able to bring out transients or reduce sustain at any frequency area at the same time. You can really shape the sound all in one window. Also like the sound Eventide's transient algorithm better than any of the others I've heard. But that's just personal preference.
Eventide can make it much more useful by simply embedding MS processing of individual bands. I don't understand why they didn't add this feature right away, I do it inside the DAW by creating a copy of the track for MS processing, but inside one plugin it would be much more convenient.
I agree. You can adjust the width of the M/S perband but you can't adjust just the mid or the side. I'm not sure why they didn't include that.
This is a real game changer, I think.
Good review.
VERZUZ Kirchhoff-EQ??
If you had to change the low boost band to dynamic in the first example, would that sound the same? I’m skeptical of this plugin being just dynamic EQ boost
Thanks
One point that was unclear. You discussed the area of separation, decay and smoothness in the beginning, but on the Bass section, those changed to 99% instead of 50% for most of the other tracks, and 75% for the decay, instead of 30%, big differences. So was there a correlation with those differences compared to the other tracks, since you didn't discuss or cover those any further on each of the track examples. Thanks....
Such a shame that an otherwise greatly thought out plugin has super obvious cramping when using bells. Eventide are a great company so I hope it's something they sort out in the next update.
I usually work at 88.2 or 96 kHz and it doesn't cramp noticeably at those rates so I didn't notice. But you're right it does cramp at 44.1 and 48 and many of my clients work at those rates. Probably not an issue for me as I'm unlikely to need to do much with transients above 10k where the serious cramping happens, but still I hope they fix this.
@@heronislandstudio8054 yeah fair. I’m the same in terms of sample rate but it largely isn’t my choice and is so client dependant that it is an issue. I tend to use bells instead of shelves and if this wasn’t the case, it really wouldn’t be an issue. Fingers crossed it is addressed though before the intro sale is finished. Been stung before blindly hoping a company fixes cramping in their next update.
Thanks for this. I wouldn’t have known. Yes eventide may remedy this in the next update.
@@thegroove2000 Peter, a Dev from Eventide, got in touch through the comments in another video. He said they are aware of the cramping and will be tackling it in an update!
@@greenenoiseaudio Very kind, thanks for the update.