Lol I ended up buying it. The intuitive nature of it had me sold. We haven't seen him dance like that in a while!

Well, I wasn't in the market for a new EQ plugin, but hearing this kinda makes me have second thoughts. They're not lying when they say it sounds smooth. Plus the discount for existing customers is pretty nice too.

I bought it 2 days ago and got addicted! It adds excitement to tracks. First, surgical (notching) corrections with the Fab Filter Q3 … then the Pulsar for sound & vibe

The Massive Passive is actually inspired by pultec being a passive design, hence gain is either boost or cut (selectable on the MP, though).

Snake oil?! No way, this thing is too good to even qualify it for snake oil series ;) Great vid, as always!

We need a Snake OIL of The God Particle by Cradle Audio 🔥

The secret sauce is that the bands are parallel. This really contributes to my purchase of it. They gave a pretty hefty discount to existing Pulsar customers... I was all in.

I have had a Silver Face Massive Passive for 15+ yrs and a Purple Face Mastering version for about 10 and I still haven't heard a single plugin quite manage to capture the very particular magic of the Massivo. This is one of the better ones I've heard, but the real MP has a very distinct and slightly hard-to-describe mid range, it's very much its own thing (it's also very transparent and clinical for filtering, but its always extremely musical and punchy). The low end and highs are certainly in the Pultec realm, but the lows are maybe a bit tighter, but larger sounding and the highs are a bit softer, and it's got very extended frequency range compared to a Pultec, which I think is one of the hardest things for plug-in makers to capture. The UAD version was always pretty harsh in the highs and the mid range sounded nothing like a Massivo, this is probably the first one I've heard that does a decent job, though it's a bit digitally overly-smoothe, but again, the MP just has a very unique mid-range that is hard to replicate. Its filters are also very unique sounding, transparent but in a colorful way, if that makes any sense. Its certainly very passive sounding in all regards, as you'd expect, and passive gear seems to be a bit of a weak point with alot of software. There are some good ones out there for sure, but it's really hard for software to capture the almost "acoustic" vibe of passive tube gear. There have been plenty of analog attempts to copy the MP that sound nothing like it, as well. So I'm not sure if it's that it is just really hard to capture it's tone digitally, or if the Massivo's tone is hard to replicate in both the analog and digital domains. There's a reason it's such a staple for engineers everywhere, that's for sure. It's a piece of desert-island gear for me without a doubt, especially the Silver Face version (it's probably just semantics, but my ear tends to favor the Silver Face for some reason. The newer purple one has what seems like a slightly tighter bottom in comparison). I use my MP's on just about everything during tracking, mixing and of course mastering. It may be a bold statement, but I think the Massive Passive may be up there as one of the best EQ designs of all time, there's really nothing that does exactly what it does. Sure, there's things like the Curvebender from Chandler, which is an amazing unit, but beyond having 4 bands per channel, they're hard to compare sonically. They can often be one of the very first tools I go to if I'm mixing something that wasn't tracked by me, especially if there are sources that sound less than great, the MP is great for reshaping a track to give it some life, in the most natural sounding way. When used for filtering, it gets rid of problem frequencies in a way that sounds like they were never there to begin with, and for additive eq, it can go from very subtle and gentle to very extreme, without ever losing it's musicality.

I knew Pulsar had to make an EQ plugin like this ! haven't watched the full video yet but I'm hoping his review is promising, I love this company !

A real massive passive being a passive design has only so much boost or cut total for all 4 bands. So if you are maxed boosting the high frequencies and then boost the low frequencies the high frequencies don't end up with the same amount of boost. They are lowered to compensate for the overall boost or cut. Mainly because there is only so much headroom in a passive design. Hope that makes sense.

Ok, I think, Pulsar has proven, that they really, really can analog legends! Waiting for La2A (even though I have tons of them) and something from Sontec or Massenburg. I guess, they could to wonderful emulations of this gear

Have you tried Tokyo Dawn Record's SlickEQ GE? This reminds me a lot of that plugin.

Song ID: Sandstorm - Da Rude

i have smasher, mu and now massive from pulsar audio. I use them a lot, smasher is, in most cases, the compressor that i use in parallel compression. All these plugins sounds really so nice! And an soud enginer that i know likes pulsar, because he could compare the plug and the hardware and the plugs sounds in the way that the real hardware, and this is a case of massive, and the reason why i bought it!

I’m a big fan of Pulsar plugin. Massive Passive is a Pultec-like EQ (based on its passive design and thus EQ curves are very smooth and musical even you’re doing something crazy. The drive is subtle but audible. Great tonality for mixing and mastering purpose. Definitely will go for it

Autogain on eq would be useful if you were feeding the eq into a compressor or saturator that was already set up. I often change the output gain on eq's just for this reason.

Butter smooth!! Wow. What a delicious drive too. Would have loved to hear it with oversampling on, I’m assuming it would be under the top right burger settings like other pulsar plugins.

This sounds and functions a lot like SPL Passeq from Plugin Alliance. Massive Passive truly adds a little pixie dust that you can't get on other EQ's without tweaking the curve a lot. Totally worth getting...especially now while it's on sale Oct 2022.

Blessed and fortunate to have the actual Massive Passive hardware with the new power supply.

At 8:25 I started throwing my arms around like a rave dancer. I think I like this EQ 😂. Also, Glandstorm by DaRoot always slaps.

What I've heard of the Pulsar Massive EQ sounds great. I'm getting it as the Massive & Mu Bundle within the next month. That bundle also comes with the Relab LX480 Essentials reverb at this time. PS 12/20/2022 Last week, I bought this bundle that included the Relab reverb. All 3 are great IMO. I got the Pulsar bundle during their Black Friday sale, I paid $129 plus about $3.50 foreign payment fee. I'm in the US FWIW.

I definitely like the what this can do. I do more or less feel happy with my EQ options right now, but this seem to be very musical sounding. Also, extra points for the seated dancing!

Big Pulsar fan so looking forward to giving this one a whirl. Great video as always 👍

Autogain is so useful for A/B listening (as shown at around 8:33). Also this thing sounds super smooth. Nice demonstration.

Me like - had to sell my MP years ago, but the workflow on this one seems right familiar. Having the graphic interface is a big plus just to see what I'm doing with the knobs. The drive is a cool new feature, though that's more for da rude that what I'ld use it for. I like level matching too so you can A/B your mixes. With the wild disclaimer that I'm comparing a $5k box on my phone & buds over KZfaq, what's not to love!

very usable UI, always thumbs up for that

...of course the ONE plugin that has AutoGain (literally) front and center is the one where you don't need it xD (no front, just Murphy's Law. Keep up the great work)

I’m super interested to see what you think about Jaycen Joshua’s God Particle plug-in. I can’t find much about it or many examples but it looks cool

Nice video Pulsar Massive is awesome EQ indeed, but i prefer Mammoth Eq from Analog in the Box a third Party Library developer emulating Manley Passive for Acustica Audio Nebula i think its the best emulation in the box but pulsar is very close.

please do a review of the new plugin "the god particle" by cradle audio

The Manley is indeed based on a pultec. Or a pultec on steroids as claimed by them. Great review.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that track is call Sandstorm by Darude

In MS setting it is much better to be honest, I missed the dry / wet function, sounds nice and great reviewer :-)

i am not so sure anymore if there are any differences at all in the virtual EQ world -plug in doctor hepled me to come up to that conclusion. I did a test myself with 5 virtual eqs and the SPL EQ aswell... matched their curves with plug in doc, and they all sound the same... you can find the testvideo on my YT-page.

Thanks always clear I think 89 euros is to expensive but good product.

When it comes to EQs Fabfilter Pro Q3 is good enough for me. It appears they tried to emulate the display of Pro Q3, but add the Manley knobs at the bottom.

Nice demo!! Very useful/musical EQ overall.

Loved this review, was wanting an opinion on this, cheers.

i don't mind auto gain if i'm EQing something in isolation...mainly for sound design not for mixing

This was fun to watch. Nice review!

Everything Pulsar makes is great.

Would be interesting to hear how that EQ sounds when used with real music instead of beeing used with artificial samples/loops.

I wish they make the Mastering Slam plugin

I always thought using the scroll wheel on the mouse would adjust the bandwitdth in any decent EQ plugin… at least in FabFilter ProQ3 and Harrison LegacyQ. Would love to hear your opinon on LegacyQ. To my ears, FabFilter doesn't ”sound”, or aims not to, while LegacyQ is supposed to. I find myself using both in MixBus, currently preferring ProQ3 for most use cases.

haha, I just bought this thing on a whim (I like the Pulsar Mu plugin) and just now I see the snake oil video. Had to skip to the conclusion part of the video to justify my impulsive buy. I can test this thing myself with a clear conscience now ;) 😆

It sounds massive and smoooth ! (even if you have gone too far with the Drive knob)

Can you please review the motown eq by kit plugins?

4:40 Correct me if I'm wrong but if my memory serves me right, the song's title is "Sandstorm", produced by Darude.🧐

Variety of sound released Flavour MTC passive EQ and its free for windows users... it's no brainer.

Hello ! How does it compares to NI passive eq in terms of sound qualities ?

Pulsar top plugins !

I use NI Passive EQ A LOT... if this sounds better it's a buy from me..thanks for the heads up

It's Billy Idol - White Wedding.....i think....🤔

I think it has auto gain because it has the drive too.

4:00 Wern't you just changing the bandwidth a few seconds ago 3:56 ?.. with the knob right in the middle, that says.. umm, Bandwidth? 😐

sounds great!

I love the stuff from Pulsar Audio, but ever since I got TDR Slick EQ Mastering Edition I haven't even looked at another Massive Passive inspired EQ.

I watch all your videos but I would love if you would include whether or not a plugin is low latency and what latency it incurs. Would just save all of us going to read the manual!

This is a paralell EQ, thats why you can add so much gain.

Can you do a review of the new kilohearts update?

Please talk about the The God Particle

I’m copping this 🔥

First thing i think is the Q are very smooth like an eqp1

it sounds very nice

Isn't there already an extremely popular VST called Massive?

Please review The GOD PARTICLE by CableAudio Next, Its meant to be an Analog replacement and apparently its really good.

Do a God Particle review

I like your presentations, but why do you use this type of music to try a Manley/Pultec type plugin. Acoustic music and/or jazz would be better in my opinion.

Acustica gave Cream eq for free, that's really something.

I like Autogain on EQ.

Can't you hear that the decibels don't match to real life? Check out Dan Worrall's video on this. They are way off. But it's a good plugin though.

You should check out their 1178 emulation its really nice as well

Have tried UAD so many times but without display I don’t really like it…when playing with q values.

Big Pulsar!!!

Can we please get full length beginning to end live streams of mixing from raw to complete?

the real title of your test track?..is it available??..great reference track :)

I think that song is Sandstorm by Darude.

Original is nice but way to expensive for music producer. UAD is sounding little better in some cases and Pulsar is just awesome because it does behave like the real deal and has modern GUI which the better sounding (small differences) UAD version doesn't have. I need to make a comparison but the Pulsar one will be easier to use and does not require my M1 to connect to my thunderbolt Sonnet 3 x UAD2 OCTO ridge. Pulsar is well protected in the OSX world which I'm in and I don't mind PC guys having this for free I would never dump OSX for the reason of cracked plugins.

Would love to hear your opinion on the Ssl Fusion Native Plugins

What pop filter is he using? Is it a lewitt one? Tried looking online and can only find the metal magnetic one.

God particle please!

DO THE GOD PARTICLE FROM CRADLE

God Particle please I'll only believe your opinion

Curious how close this is to the Chandler Zender Bender

Is it really 10 dBs you are tweaking ( @09:24 ) ??? remember that dB is a very non linear unit. . . . . Could it just be the resolution you are getting withthe plugin's knobs??? .... I get similar results using 10cm motorized faders to tweak ProQ3..... or using the NOB controller. . . . . which are controllers that can bring more resolution and thus, controll to the tweaks I do to my filters. Hey!! what happened to the nails? I would've leave them on just to keep the haters anoyed! 👊

Massive Passive is a modern take on Pulltec…dude. 😉

They gave you gently used plugin to try? I see some rack rash on there. ; )

nice Choon

can you hide the graphic? It forces you to play by ears only

Hey 👋 just heard you are looking for a pair of pultecs. I can give you 2 new EQP-1A or MEQ-5. For like not very expensive.

More competition for Fabfilter Volcano 3?

Try the new pulsar :D

MASSIVE & MU The ultimate musical mastering chain update: digging further, the price is currently $89.00.

i wish that you review the UAD Plugins

'if you are making plugins, take notes!' LOL

What pop filter do you use in this video?

FabF 🧡

what is this song ? like it

How does it sound to uad

1:27 why?