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Post by spock on Jun 30, 2015 14:29:30 GMT -6
Has anyone been using Harrison Mixbus, if so what are your thoughts? I have it installed on my RADAR Studio, and am curious about it.
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Post by scumbum on Jul 1, 2015 0:02:23 GMT -6
I have it but have not put the time in to learn it .
I wish switching DAWs wasn't such a PITA .
Out of all the other DAWs Harrison Mixbuss seems like its worth the effort to learn though .
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 3:19:52 GMT -6
For me, Mixbus has a very fast workflow.
I jumped into it from Sonar.
I barely ever read in the manual. The manual is short and very usable, which is rare nowadays. I really like the condensed style.
I use it for mixing only, right now.
The learning curve has been very shallow for me, don't know how you percieve this coming from other DAWs.
So far, main point in using it for me is the sound, the behaviour of analog gainstaging, the excellent EQ, tape emulation and channel and bus dynamics. It has everything on-board what is needed to effectively make a good and expensive sounding mix.
With mixbus i don't have to think about gainstaging at all, it is just sounding like analog consoles, saturation, clipping and such. If something in DAW world comes near analog mixing, Mixbus is it.
Especially the EQs and filters are excellent. Very effective, good sounding, it's pure fun to dial in whith them by ear.
Setting the parameters of the dynamics is as easy as it gets. I particularly like the leveler, it's a secret weapon.
All in all i can very easily make a wide open sounding mix with great everything - nice sounding top end, solid bass, excellent mids, width and glue. Seems, i like the Harrison sound very much. I am a tiny bit fed up from the SSL comp glue sound, somehow, the Harrison sounds a little more classy to me. But that may be a personal preference thing.
Mixbus has this kind of mojo, where you don't need to think about how to achieve it, it's just there and sounds good. I barely use any additional plugins, except verb, i bought the license for the Harrison verb plugin that is already integrated and am set up. Usable.
I did my mix of wiz' song with this configuration. Mixbus, without external plugins. Just works.
Downside: Flying fader control surface support seems buggy (same in the underlying Ardour version), no MIDI track or virtual instrument support right now. I save often, so if a session gets corrupt somehow, or Mixbus has a problem, i don't lose much.
The fast mixing workflow and the sound alone are worth it anyhow.
Plus: It's very, very affordable.
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