So, i was watching this guy and, i cant believe it but he has a point... a good one...
i want to share this to see your opinions about this!

 

Understanding audio fundamentals helps here.

 

YouTube strikes again. Very carefully selected examples there.

It’s like Dan Worrel’s argument about summing mixers being a scam. It’s easy to believe something is a conspiracy when you don’t fully understand the topic.

 

I have almost all virtual EQs but also all for Free ....

We understood by the time AA cracked

 

I do agree with the whole hyperbolic marketing thing, nowadays i just laugh at it.

But the real reason i don't care is because i just find myself using less and less analogue EQ emulations, which is where a lot of this redundancy comes from. The rest (non-emulations) is just about choosing whatever you can get your hands on and has the features you need, no "award winning analog warmth gamechanger" shit (i think).

 

I solved the problem decades ago : any "digital" EQ + selected saturation after it.
I'm using a bunch of saturations plugins, because they all sound different.
Decapitator, AA Nebula/Acqua ... whatever works "color" wise.

Same with compressors : i try to separate compression and saturation, two different plugins.

So even the most boring EQ/compressor/whatever is not a problem, as long as it does it's FIRST job.
Saturation/harmonics is another job.

 

Based, as the youngsters these days would say.

 

Haha i've watched this one already, and he also has a video about compressors being a scam!
Both are good videos, but i disagree with both of them.

long story short, to me is about being practical. And i don't find his approach very practical.

There's also this video from Paul Third reacting to AP Mastering, and there's a discussion between them in the comments;

 

That. I agree. I want the most "digital" (as in transparent, no saturation no more shit) eqs and comps.

Then again, if you've used or own music hardware you love the sound of it... guess must be difficult not to try to emulate it with plugs.

PS: Haven't watched this dude's videos
Whenever I see a "snake oil", "scam", or "best", "perfect" in any video is an automatic-no-see

 

Oh yeah there's also that.
He tries to match the curve of the PULTEC but hes only using one band filter.
Pultec is a parallel EQ and it is different from a regular EQ, but the difference only comes when you use two or more bands which he didn't do in the example.
That's the whole deal of the TDR Nova (Yeah i got this from Dan Whorral's video)

 

It's the same thing with any null test. It doesn't matter if you can make Pro-Q3 sound like the Kirchhoff. You can match them identically, as he shows. But you would never recreate that identical curve, while working on a project; if you were not comparing them. The features, interface, and workflow of the plugin; will cause you to end up with a different result. It won't null, because you did not deliberately set them to do so.

 

I strongly agree here

 

very creative my friend, gonna think like this from now

 

didnt see that ! thanks!

 

That's what I thought, but with certain tests I saw that in most cases it worked, there was some noise left, that is, it's not 100% perfect, but it's pretty good as evidenced by that level of cancellation, right?

 

yes here i thought the same, I didn't like that example since it didn't make a good comparison.

 

Of course it's scammy. Both sides of it - audio and video. The audio/video hardware industry is shammy as well. You have shitload of monkeys trying to sell both audio and video shit to finite audience, many of whom are not that well outfitted $$ wise. Top it all off with the fact that now, any monkey who thinks they can make a .EXE or a working .DLL file is trying to siphon some of that gravy that previously was only reserved for the big corporations to rake in. Which is why the audio and video software market has been flooded for years now with a plethora of mediocre, marginal garbage that only exists to make the authors of said garbage a pathway to the bank.

 

in some parts, agree, its obvious the flooded plugins we have today from recents companys