Mixwave Level - Gates Sta-Level Plugin

not everyone’s music needs murk and distortion added into it to make it exciting. Hardware advancement removed all of the gunk that got in the way of the music, the performance, the timbre, and hurt translation when the problems weren’t able to be fixed without adding further problems. Many musicians are that good.

All of that stuff got in the way. How do you tell someone that your new piece cannot fix the real world problems without major sonic degradation or cartoonish distortion because the designer thought it sounded cool on a fake drum? That’s when they admit that their processor isn’t the advertised type but is a toy. Unfortunately most of the market is toys trying to capture a past that never existed where most of processors weren’t pushed into distortion for very good reasons and many 70s productions even favored audible noise over distortion like Ryo Fukui’s Scenery.

Is wiz crazy about his 87 - I didn't know that.

His recorded voice sure sounds fantastic!

Quote SOS Hugh Robjohns an extremely respected ex BBC engineer on a Thermionic tube EQ






Whenever I buy these tube units, Coil CA-70, Retro STA, Millennia, Thermionic Swift, Thermionic Phoenix etc.

I'm impressed by how clean they can sound - if you have no hands on experience with them you might think they're going to sound "tubey" but actually they're capable of very clean audio.

I've solid state units capable of producing more "hair on the signal"

Yes, you can drive them if you want but I just love using them for that glossy sheen and depth of field they add.

My productions don't sound saturated in the least - just very big - two very different things to my ears.

I agree and technical things like more accurate compressors, better mics, and transformerless Pres but a direct circuit model of the compressor would melt cpus to get very similar tone and action like cytomic the scream does.

You could make a digital compressor that functions and copies much of the action and tone without the usually problems of circuit modeled compressors that have infinite harmonics of infinite harmonics and melt cpus but that wouldn’t sound identical. That’s pretty much what MJUC is for some other varimus and why it behaves better than most other varimu plugins. Or the glue only component models the sidechain of the ssl bus comp. HQ off simplifies the entire model of MJUC to run stably (and misfire more) without oversampling and sounds much more like a standard digital compressor. Or Arouser for the Distressor but Arouser unfortunately tends to misfire because they didn’t care to make it fully functional so you have a crazy overshoot and naturally crank the soft clipper to clip off the overshoot, unlike the Distressor. The Glue doesn’t do the ssl bus snare and guitar fizz thing because it’s more cleaned up being an ideal digital compressor that behaves like a ssl bus than even the cleaned up xlogic and smart c2.

Unfortunately so many plugins now let the user make the unit dysfunctional unlike the better pure digital plugins, by not modeling, decramp or upsampling filters, have auto upsampling at lower sample rates, smooth zero crossings, prevent hard code breaks and branches, smooth rectifiers beyond abs functions, fir smoothing filters to prevent aliasing, multirate sampling to anti-alias only certain functions, etc. the worst offenders often being emulation plugins that don’t brute force oversample like uad2, current softube, and fuse ones do. Even then, uad cannot make stuff like their 1176 fully functional. It’s the nature of the beast and just simplifying a circuit model.

eg, Pulsar 1178 sounds awful at 1x oversampling and melts my old laptop’s cpu at 4-8x. On my desktop, at 8x, the action isn’t bad anymore but still isn’t as smooth as decent digital compressors like even the old Sonnox ones, the goodhertz faraday limiter, the psp impressor, weiss ds1 set right to smooth it out, unisum I’ve tweaked some the presets to sound way more like a hardware fet comp than any model, the same with molot ge. And that’s just what I have installed!

You know - I have never seen that movie…I need to watch it. But that shit made me laugh

Mix up a few white Russians and laugh at a true masterpiece with your family and friends. It's an event.

I'm on the fence (mainly due to price)
Curious to know how this plug in compares to MJUC, which is still my fave Sta like comp, after having a pair for over a decade.
The behavior of MJUC is very much like the hardware (on HQ mode)
Lately I have been running MJUC into the Coil plug in, and finding this combo "closer" to the real tube / transformer magic.

The other compressor plug in that I have completely flipped out over is PSP Flare - I run it as the final comp in most chains.
It is insane how much invisible compression you can get, and still retain dynamics, and the high end gets more focused.
MJUC and Flare are incredible partners. (and Molot is the Mike Tyson of compressors )

  

  I saw the $15 off signup too but right below that in smaller print of the message it said something about doesn't apply to new or certain plugs. Something like that. You can always wait till Black Friday and see if it drops lower.

How does it compare to the Kiive/Audioscape or Arturia version?