i am now using the 8200!!

THANKS... BECAUSE OF YOU I found this GEM ... The Pulsar EQ... Non of the Acustica Products can beat this Guy...

Did you try Magenta5 compressors collection? It's incredibly good and made all the rest obsolete in my studio...

@@FoliaSound Is magenta really that good? I'm an artist/producer and i put together mixes to present to engineers. I used UAD stuff with the occasional Plugin Alliance slotted in. How are you using the Magenta? Vocals? Drum Bus? Have you tried the Ultramarine or midnight?

I wanna hear that green5 eq on vocals and can’t find any . Is it good on vocals compared to this plugin?

:O On it right now!

@@FoliaSound :-) 👌

Thanks, Kristian, good to see you here!

No problem, Steve :) See you around!

Thanks for an opinion, Hubert!

Thank you!

Thanks, Mark, see you soon!

Agreed, i found the reverberation on the acustica appeared to have more dimension but the gui on the pulsar is better plus the extra features makes it a close call. sound over features, sound should win every time. But we are human. We need to see more acustica vs algo. I thought i'd escaped acustica. Thanks for the great work Folia are doing.

@@tyranic1 totally agree, the gui on the Pulsar is amazing. Looks more appealing to work with. Both!

Agreed! Thanks for an opinion!

i've just demoed a bit of the Acustica stuff and it is highly engaging....not just on the ears but the eyes also. the year-end-discounts are active and it is really very tempting....but for someone who doesn't know these devices like the back of his hand (if at all) i totally consider presets as a valuable, if not absolutely necessary way, to get familiar with them...what the experts suggest as worthy points of departure from which you can venture forth and develop and fine tune to suit your own needs. Pulsar gives you that, at least it did with the 1178 and i've found these to be very helpful. i think there's a kind of elitism, a sort of snobbery which goes with owning Acustica's stuff in this regard.....it's like selling you a new Tesla but not showing you what does what...i mean you should know these things, naturally. or don't try to make music...this is grown man stuff....haha. i may still jump on a 3-for-2 package while this still sale is still on but i hate to encourage this snobbery....and i dare say perhaps even laziness, on the part of developers. of course you get those saying i'm being lazy by not wanting to take the time to learn this gear... to not want to go to engineering-school to learn how to use what is basically eye and ear candy....yet as the customer i decide where to plop my money...and i prefer my tools to be user-friendly...fairly easy to learn and use....and what's with one plugin requiring so many damned files in your plugins folder? what is this mad clutter? i've never seen such a thing....is there a reason for this? nevertheless i'm still intrigued...and tempted. it's only money after all.

btw....good video....very useful...thanks. @@FoliaSound

I still believe Pulsar is not bad, but thanks for your point of view anyway!

Thank you too, Emiliano!

Great to hear that :) Pulsar is great indeed!

Thank you, sir, at your service!

I did some test with the Amek 200 & 250 vs the 8200 matching the curves with bertom EQ analyzer. The 200 is not even in the same league!! The 250 is close but the 8200 is tighter in the low end. I tried to include Green but the high end is cramping meaning it just cuts off almost flat before Nyquist.

Thanks for an opinion, hear you soon!

The oversampling on Pulsar is x8!

Thanks!

Null test of two different plugins will never produce silence and the artifact you'll be left with can tell you literally nothing :) Talking about replacement, I'm talking about starting using new tool, nothing more, nothing less. I know these are different EQs, differently constructed, I talked about it in the vid. Cheers!

No probs, good to have you here!

You're not the only hearing this, I think I'll take a second listen myself!

Nope, I'm not into Plugin Alliance really ;)

@@FoliaSound Hmm, I somehow thought so. May I ask why? I would like to hear your opinion on this. Especially since I share most of your opinions so far about things and companies.

@@steverachmadofficial , because I find Dirk not a very nice or grown up person. He's acting very passive-aggressive and toxic sometimes, I experienced this personally and I'm absolutely out of Plugin Alliance stuff.

@@FoliaSound I guess he is the boss. Not nice to hear this stuff about companies. Why is that neccesary always?

Thanks, good to know!

It's not paid, I didn't even get an NFR so far ;)

@@FoliaSound thanks. Quick questions. While I'm having Softube Weiss EQ1 for my mastering duties, would be useful to add Pulsar 8200? For example Weiss EQ1 preserves the transient in a superb way, keeps transients intact, keeps the stereo image intact. Would Pulsar preserves transients the similar way (not smear them)? And second question. I read mixed opinions about how Pulsar 8200 reacts to low end. Some people say it's not the greatest tool for low end materials like bass/kick ect while others say it shines with low end adding punch and definition. What is your honest opinion? Thank you Thank you once again

@@LucasMichalski , my opinion is that any transient smearing or low end issues would be minor. Grab a 14 day demo and try it yourself, good luck!

You don't see this, because I prefer to listen than to stare at Plugin Doc :) I even made a vid on this!

@@FoliaSound I'm totally with you on this part. Its just too much sound difference with the same eq curves which leaves me curious if there is a different saturation going on over frequency spectrum. Regular harmonics tab just doesn't show you that as it doesn't draw the harmonics behaviour.

It's on Artlist!

Good point. I still do like its depth and dimension!

AA made me stop using other mixing tools. Seriously.

It produces analog-like saturation and it emulates very specific curves, their intermodulations and nonlinearities. It's definitely not a surgical, digital EQ, the top spectrum graph should not deceive you into thinking this way!

FF Q3 is garbage, sounds more digital than almost any other EQ I've ever used. So sick of everyone pushing that thing

@@DVNT I wouldn't say it's garbage, it just has the best workflow/GUI and low CPU usage so you get results quickly. And a lot of times it matters more than higher quality plugin because you make better eq decisions while working faster and more intuitively. But in some cases it's good to use a bit better sounding plugin (on a master bus for example).

@@huberttorzewski yeah, I just think it sounds really sterile, think everyone is being influenced by engineer youtubers when there's probably a lot more of us "musician producers" now. But no one's catering to us. Imagine Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison pulling up Plugin Doctor if they were producing their own album today. It wouldn't happen & yet we have a proliferation of these engineers who completely ignore the sound if plugin doctor tells them they should like it.

@@huberttorzewski but acustica, red rock & pulsar are legit, also the sontec from make believe studios is fantastic