@@n.shafarich That’s cool, everyone has their taste. This was EQ’d as described to bring way more “forward” and sweet. You can equally soften and darken tones with this EQ if that’s more your vibe. This was recorded with a U47 though, so it was really nice to start with 🔥

@@SilkRoadMedia2010 Lots; we are the main UK dealer for Thermionic Culture. The Phoenix is a cleaner, smoother sound than the Tubecore, which is much thicker, punchier and more colourful sounding. As such the Phoenix is more versatile, but not as aggressive or bold.

Absolutely spot on - I think the 12dB version is better in almost all cases to be completely honest; when you consider the curves it's capable of and the bandwidth of each band, the 12dB version capable of extremely subtle changes and even in extreme use rarely seems to do too much. The 6dB version in some cases may not quite do as much as you might need!

It’s a masterpiece, especially considering the price! You’re very lucky to get the 5500 too, they are SO limited in numbers worldwide.

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@@sxproaudio It`s very cheap

Agreed!

Nice!!

It sounds very unlike a massive passive in tone, this feels somewhat clearer and a little less "tubey".

Indeed it is!

The WesAudio is undeniably more flexible but also costs quite a lot more. I'm not sure I can answer your question because your specific use case would determine which of these would would buy, if you HAD to choose between them and not have both for their respective strengths.

@@sxproaudio TO master and travk with. Thanks. I

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@@sxproaudio how is 'mastering' going to compensate for not having "the best gear"? mastering doesn't compensate for 'imperfect rooms' . If your mix is imperfect, you cannot perfect it with mastering EQ, best you can do is tame a piercing flute and that should be done at mixdown...... mastering is unnecessary, it's a scam you all got conned into , like 'sun lotion' and 'nature identical flavorings'....... mastering comes from a time when an album was a collection of songs recorded in different studios with different backing bands and when songs were recorded in studios in one take without overdubs ..... 'mastering' was purely to make all songs of a comparable volume while making the 'Master' record which the record stamper is made from. They found you could use EQ to bring out or hide a certain instrument but that is it, you can compress your whole track if you like but that is compression, not 'mastering'

@@dingbatjack1234 "lol" is the best comment of all time. "lol" means 'laugh out loud' but nobody who ever types "lol" is truly laughing, so it's a lie, they see anything they don't like, they pretend to be laughing to make themselves FEEL better, "lol" really means 'Lie On-Line" ...

You really have absolurely no clue, do you?

@@mirkomarkovic3438 cry harder

Thank you David - I totally agree with you about how beautiful this sounds, and I have a similar experience with other spring reverbs and plugins, they often have a certain sound that limits how you can use them. THIS, however, as you rightly say, sounds beautifully smooth like a plate reverb and I feel like it's almost like a musical instrument in it's own right! Thank you so much for your kind words too!

It’s a track that I recorded some years ago called “Wedding Dress”, written and performed by the excellent, talented and (currently) unsigned artist Roxy Searle: www.roxysearle.co.uk

There's absolutely no reason you couldn't also use this in tracking. It's a very musical EQ that shapes wide bands in a natural way so it's almost ideal for this purpose. Great idea. Thank you also for the kind words and feedback.

It would definitely work amazingly in mid/side for sure. The high frequencies on this are magic and silky, but also extremely notable are the very low frequencies - they're really fat and warm without ever getting too boomy. Possibly very powerful for mid/side use, great thinking.

@@sxproaudio Thanks

Good question! It's not the same in many ways. Looking at the functions initially, the Grandchild is more faithful to the fairchild design, with fixed time constant presets, where the Tubecore has dedicated attack/release settings. Mainly, the difference is in sound and how you use it. A fairchild (and Grandchild!) normally shines when it is absolutely smashed, meters pinned to -20. You can't do this with the Tubecore, but you don't need to. The Tubecore oozes flavour with much less effort. In short, the Grandchild is more subtle and handles more delicate sources well, where the tubecore is for adding fairchild-like flavour to your audio but via different application method.

Great question! The HEDD Type 20 is a supremely flexible monitor that will likely please most who choose to purchase. They are quite tunable, and have plenty of power so work really well with room correction too. Furthermore, i'm aware HEDD are working on some exciting enhancements for owners of Type 20s and 30s which will elevate their functions even further too. I couldn't really suggest a *better* monitor at this price point, but there are certainly others that compete just as well such as the Eve Audio SC3070, Focal Twin ST6 and Dynaudio Core 47.

You would need to ask WesAudio about such plans, but no other products of theirs are available as plugins (except to control the hardware) so I doubt it, at least for now.

Sorry to hear that. We had no trouble setting ours up and registering, but I agree that it's not the smoothest registration process i've seen.

Agreed!

And thus it makes a big difference even to those who listen through "normal, everyday" speakers! It's a superb EQ!

Thanks for letting us film with you and for ordering this beast of an EQ! I hope you enjoy it!

@sxproaudio love it. Best EQ on the market right. Packed full of features and sounds incredible.

It's a really well thought-out piece of gear, at a great price considering how much you can do with it!

This is a really interesting comment, thank you! We did some interesting shootouts prior to filming this video and it was hard not to favour the springtime against other well known reverbs. In particular, we found that the Bricast M7 performed better than any of the M7 plugins, which sound identical on individual sources but within a mix were obviously superior when using the hardware. It's possibly a video we'll look at in the near future!

Thanks 💯

As someone with more EQ's than there are people on this planet, I feel you are qualified to make this statement. Thanks 🙏

You bought one or did you get one from Wes at a discount etc? e.g. any sponsorship at all; in any way? I'm looking at buying a Massive Passive (non-master). Put aside the automation, why buy this one?

@AudioJanitor I bought mine through SX Pro. My opinions are not influenced by anyone. If it was rubbish, I'd say it was rubbish. But it isn't which is why I've installed it in my mastering chain. I'm not here to convince you to buy it. Buy a massive passive if you want a massive passive. But if you want something in my opinion that is better sounding than the massive passive and the most feature packed EQ on the market, Buy the Wes Audio NG Tube EQ. The choice is yours.

@@AudioJanitor I will also add that our video is unbiased also; WesAudio did not give us a unit or pay us for this video - we purchased a unit from them for demonstration purposes and used it in this video.

Thanks for the comment. It's not a product/brand we deal in so we haven't seen one to try it, so will reserve judgement and comment until we do!

Yes, got it within 0.1dB LUFS!

You seem like a wise engineer...

Thanks! 🙏

Please, an audio example on vocals !!! :)

You'll need to try one yourself for this ;)

Thanks for the comment and I hope this was inspirational for you. Enjoy!