Tokyo dawn did the great double display idea years ago with the slick see eq ge. It's hidden by default too so you can start with your ears. It also had very effective auto gain too. Very ahead of the game.

Pulsar massive is one of the more 'alive sounding' digital eqs I've heard in some time. These guys are doing some great stuff.

Pulsar has been releasing some really good stuff recently

Seeing this me makes me think how far ahead of the curve Tokyo Dawn Labs were with their Nova GE and Slick EQ M. 😎

I love Pulsar’s design ethos: analog modeling but with the benefits of a digital interface. Best of both worlds. I’ll probably pass on this because I feel covered by their existing modeled parallel EQ, their Massive. But I imagine if you have a need for this it’s fantastic

This thing actually sounds really good... seems smooth and musical. The GML it is modelled after has always been a fave of mine

I agree, there IS something strange going on with digital EQs and sound. I can't explain it either. It is not harmonics. I have that same feeling with Tokyo Dawn Records. I mean, there must be a reason why Dan Worrall is the tutor on TDR's youtube channel (sometimes overwhelmingly much info). Now here comes another plugin example that illustrates that. Tone Empire's Neural Q, another emulation of the Siemens W295b's shelf bands. I don't know how they did it. Perhaps you remember (I don't expect you do), I'm the guy who used to have a small Sitral console. This little gem got underrated by StudioLife's review in their "Is it shit?" series. They couldn't help wondering why one would need a simple highshelf/lowshelf plugin. Well, this gave me instantly that feeling of blowing life and brilliance into my audio that I had known from my Sitral.🤷

The topic of difference in sound of EQs is so interesting to me. It has to have something to do how the different filter topology is build/programmed digitally. I have not found a good Video on that so far, that explaines that. Maybe that's what you're talking about in the end briefly. It would be amazing to have a video on that!...

@04:26 " to how that , actually". Best tip ever! 😂

Great group of guys over at Pulsar! They work super hard on their products and it always shows when they are released. 🙂

Bro I love your content, i'm brazilian, 19 YO and i've been studying music production since i was 14 by myself, i'm fascinated and I love doing it. this year I managed to hit my mark of 15 million views in productions on youtube and another 1 million streams in my own songs on spotify. dude, you have no idea how expensive it is to invest in production in brazil... it can be frustrating to access reverb from the US or Canada and see the difference, here everything has to be bought used, or you have to be a millionaire hahahahaah, microphones that cost 250 dollars if they don't have an official importer (which is rare) sometimes reach 600 or even 700 dollars here. SSL2+ COSTS 600 DOLLARS IN THE OFFICIAL STORES. I really intend one day to live in North America or Europe to at least escape the import tax that exceeds 60% when the product has a value above 50 dollars. Thank you so much for bringing your content, I wake up every day and instantly put one of your videos to listen while I get ready, your work is incredible!!!!

I like their plugins because if I like the design and feel and feel of how they make their plugins. Really nice and polished and smooth and stable

Yes I agree there's something going on, maybe the device it's modelled on has an unusual circuit - I just purchased Soma in the sale - really do not need another eq, but when has that stopped anyone? - so I got it, I'm glad I did! This about the original H/W " this unit has no tantalum or electrolytic interstage or output coupling capacitors. The result is the most natural of equalizers, with minimum artifacts and signal modification. " No transformers either

The pulsar is based on the GML 8200, I know that its not exactly a character eq (basically one of the cleanest analogue eqs) but I wouldn't be surprised if there is something in the programming that makes it different to a digital mastering EQ

Reallllly love the idea of the "auto gain" from an EQ plugin! And, between many other possibilities, this might be the main reason why the sound feels... different! Because increasing one frequency can actually cause everything but that frequency to decrease. We are use to simply hear "more" the boosted frequency with a volume gain effect. This volume correction is great! Not sure it could beat the ProQ3 though, but might be worthy to give it a good try... Thanks again for all those nice reviews mister "white Sea"! 🤟😻👌

I never understood this “use your ears only” thing. There are things like ear fatigue and the brain constantly adapting so it’s pretty handy to have a visual guide as well.

oh! the different sound... i didn't hear that comment. as far as i'm aware the GML EQ is designed to be very dynamic... the circuit is quite complex, each parametric filter has several opamps and is wired so every band interacts with the other bands. which is why it sounds so "sweet" or "musical" also EQs can sound extremely different... some like old Harrison desks (ABBA) sound almost like comb filters and are very coloured, due to so much phase shift. they need quite a lot of skill BUT if you have it can sound amazing. if you look into EQ digital algorithms there are pros and cons to all of them (then there are linear circuits, minimum phase shift circuits, IIR and FIR)... and THEN looking at analog you add transformers, opamps, etc. and their characteristics. i'm certainly not an expert but yes EQs can sound wildly different. we've been spoilt with fairly surgical digital EQs lately. also oops i just bought Pulsar 8200. I don't think it sounds quite like the GML but it's beautiful and just so useful! ... go play with George Konings' again 😊

I use non-visualizer plugins when I specifically want that experience. TDR SlickEQ, the free version without the visualizer, has super smooth curves and it sounds so good that I really like not knowing exactly what it's doing

Saturation. Band-dependant saturation, probably. Subtle. But there. That's why it sounds different.

for tilt freq. just move the orange button on the spectrum to the side

The Gain Scale feature is a must have for every EQ I think. The Amek 200 and Amek 250 has it too (I think also fabfilter has it but I don't have a Pro Q3). Invert or -100% would be a nice feature.

Yup I bought it. I was kinda worried since I still prefer Magenta over Massive, but this was just to good of a deal for an algo based version (guessing here) that’s not as CPU taxing

Very transparent and precise EQ. The UI is VERY good. I already have too many EQs, but this one maybe a good one for a beginner.

my plugins have lasted a long time. some of them have rust on them. but they still sound the same as when I bought them.

It’s🎉 subtle and there’s not a ton of resonance when you boost which is really nice. Kinda reminds me of the TRS Classic EQ but more gentle

did u know if you hit “alt” and scroll on pro q it will automatically turn on the dynamic eq range. I jusy got into key comands for pro q and it is wild how fast it gets

Pulsar make awesome plugins.

If you think about it, a *flat* tilt eq's frequency setting is the same as just gaining the sound. So in the context of an auto-gained eq, the frequency is completely irrelevant and is purely visual

The question is : Do analog parametric EQs sound the same? If you take this EQ or the Amek 250 (Plugin Alliance) for example, they emulate different parametric analog units ! IF these units sound different, then the digital emulations should sound different.

Song is Sandstorm by Darude by the way…cant get enough of it

I don't know why Since the release of Sonible I have just fallen love with them!

THE DIFFERNCES BETWEEN DIGITAL EQS (no analogue emulations) :::: To my Ears i hear different amounts of Ringing in Eqs. But the differences are often not minor, but very drastic. Some rarer used eqs have AAALLOT Post Rinig, you can literally make an acoustic kick sound a bit "electronic" for the lack of better words, it rings soo long. But funny i find that most like Fabfilter, i actually hear in Fabfilter it has a bit more Ringing. Go boost the BAssfrequency of a Kick on it, you hear it. But this is minor and i can understand atleast that people use it, its not soo obviously wrong like in some rare other Eqs where it sounds electronic... So, and other eqs dont tend to have this Ringing, those i personally preffere. OK: there are two main type Eqs, fir and how was the other Type called again, haha.. But yeah two types (im not talking about linear vs nonlinear. Each linear and nonlinear has fir and the other Type i forgot name. Further, Parameters such as "amount of Feedback" is theoretically also variable in each companys eq, alltho of corse many might use widely circulating ground building blocks hence they are often identical, and they sometimes NULL. And thats that postringing from feedback... anyway, i dont understand hudert how they function really, but remeber this from long eq-excursions .. Overall, its true, they sound very close, even the two filter Types, so that i cant really hear out drastic differences , and really settlet after my Eq excursions with "it doesent matter thaaaaat much, most are just good, nice, like you want it to be . IMHO. I would love of you would do a big Eq comparison, but you would have to google and ask companies if they use fit (finite impule response or something it was called ) or the other type (infinite impulse response, ) . so you can be shure you got bouth ground types covered. And of corse if you want cover the linear ones too if you want...

Sounds sweet and warm

i might be wrong but isn't there harmonics and oversampling on this as well? i think Paul Third mentioned it in his review video. Kinda cool.

Yeah! Another EQ plugin! Why?

I don't know exactly but if it sounds different you can always explain it with the combination of curves: frequency gain + phase response, this are the physical phenomenon that comes to your ear. The internal processing is a detail. They might have added non-linearities too though. But it might just be a psychoascoustic effectin the end ... Who knows :p

One possible reason that It sounds different because it's a parallel EQ not in series like Pro Q3 or Kirchhoff etc. The other reason is that it has oversampling and the curves maybe different to other EQ's.

There’s a tiny bit of saturation in this plug-in - why it sounds different than other eqs

I think Pulsar is planning to make their own bundle of plugins, in my opinion, i like more that Massive plugin, it can be a clean or a dirty EQ at the same time. This new plugin is just clean but it's really well rounded on features and it's very simple. Kirchoff has analog curves but it's way too much and complex. I use their 1178 plugin and Massive a lot.

I like Pulsar, have Mu and Smasher. This looks great, but no more iLok plugins for me

Can somebody explain me why ppl keeps making eq’s when we have pro-q3, split and kirchoff?

Excellent walk-through - thank you.

Love the pulsar stuff!!!

Gain Scale functionality needs to be adopted by every single plugin developer. A "Wet/Dry" for "how far the knobs are turned", it's gorgeous.

Very cool plugin!

5:05 Plugin alliance has a free tilt filter called nineau filter, great tool!

I tried it, it didn't just send fairly detailed analytics about my system home, it also seemed to be digging around in my Steam folder for some reason. Try to take a look with Process Monitor or something like it.

indeed that would actually make me buy an emulation/hardware looking plugin, the modern visual stuff I do like. As I am not used to just using knobs^^

Arguably you might want to de-ess an instrumental track on sources like harsh cymbals or metallophone instruments with high piercing harmonics. Not an uncommon useage.

You should take a look at Knif Audio Soma, it's tube emulation EQ is fab

Please, please, plase make a review of the new Black Salt Audio "Reviver" plugin (created by In The Mix). Even better, can you compare it to the Ozone plugins?

Does Pro Q3 not do all those things as well? Even the tilt and the de-esser?

The UI s similar to the way TDR Slick EQ M is laid out, and that one always worked well for me as a good balance between skeumrphic and... not skeumorphic.

I would be really curious about a version of this that throws in a full optional dynamic EQ section. I mean after all it is digital.

Love this verion of Sandstorm by Darude.

FF with colorful Knobs

Thanks

Shit... had my speaker turned all the way up and didn't know it when I started this video... you defiantly deliver a punchy tone right off the bat 😵🤣

Oversampling? EQ cramping?

When are you going to hire and do a 1 hour review of a Behringer Wing mixer and it’s 40+ on board FX?

Love the track more than anything else, with a 100s of EQs out there!

Is it possible to pitch your voice 2 octaves down?

I kind of wish all EQs had tilt controls.

Nice! It would be fun if you could make a comparison hardware / software with your friend George Konings, as he has one GML EQ in his studio (if I remember correctly the video you made with him).

You would rather buy a $4,000 unit than spend $150 on software that will last you just a few years? Doesn't a real unit require maintenance to last a lifetime? (which is, by the way, another expense for my wallet). And the software will stop working? I don't know about you, but I've seen producers using 30-year-old plugins, so I don't think software is only good for a few years. How did you come up with this opinion? But I know analog is analog, and digital can't replicate that perfectly. However, many smaller studios simply can't afford to spend their earnings on a $4,000 unit (or more). Additionally, consider that if you want an analog sound, you would need to invest in way more gear, not just one unit.

Question Wytse: when using your Thomann affiliate link, do you also get rewarded for stuff outside of your 'my gear' page? It looks to me like after landing on your personal page and browsing for something you don't have on your my gear page, I simply get redirected to the normal page and you don't benefit from this - which I would like you to of course! Please enlighten me/us?

nice review, nice song!

1:30 How do you define "toxic masculinity", Wytse? I'm assuming you're talking about gearspace.

Its a parellel eq instead of serial.

He Wytse, heb nog niet de hele video gezien, maar is er een groot verschil ten opzichte van Pulsar Massive?

Can I ask a question please? Do you use the tape machine for production or audio when recording live sounds 👽🙏UK

What's toxic masculinity?

Well, it's just another clean EQ🙃

You do know that you had it on bypass the whole time yeah Wytse?

why did you change the title of your video?

Good work pulsar! 🙂

This is really cool

Dessers are used on Cymbals, which is surprising.

**has opinions "That's toxic masculinity!"

Great video! I don't see the name of the track in the comments :(

I'm curious about something.. Is this basically just FiltR Bank Pro 3, but with a few extra add-ons?

No filter slopes kills it for me. Completely and utterly.

Does this EQ have a spectrum analyzer like fab filter?

there's a Delta 🔺 button near the De-esser section.

YEAHHHH BRO, i CAN EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU IN A SIMPLE SHORT WORD, "INTER-ACTING FREQUENCIES" That is why you've heard a difference compared to other digital equalizer.

telling people to listen with their ears is toxic masculinity for some reason

Voxengo deft comp review.

Cracks me up how he enjoyed the fact that it has auto gain

My close friend asks why he needs the twelfth EQ?

ik dacht, die gaat helemaal aan op de autogain...

You shoud make a new T-Shirt Line with "Auto Gain" on it....if you dont have it now. And then next one with " No Screws" ....🤔

Niiiiiccccceeee...!

In actuality he's saying, through his testing, that he doesn't hear any sonic benefits over his tried and true methods

We need auto gain on every damn plugin, why waste a lot of time and effort tweaking gains to get the perfect compensation when it could be used with some algorithms.

"Toxic masculinity space" - full on NPC.

I think it's because of the auto gain

Ahhhh take my money Pulsar! I was gonna buy Sushi buuut...

ugh, it sounds lovely but not quite like a real GML to me 😭

So many plugins now 😐😐

Has anyone used Shaperbox?