Best Top End and Midrange EQ - Softube Curve Bender Mastering
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I love how it makes the highs and high mids pop out without sounding hard but punchy instead
I bought this today, and after mixing with it for five hours, I can’t stop smiling either ❤
the way it opens up the mid presence is SO good and incredibly musical. and when I fiddled with the 1Khz presence knob i smiled like an idiot. Instantly made the mix mesh well and the vocals so juicy! Plus, Pairing this with the softube bus compressor is an incredible experience. Lovelovelove LOVE this plugin. It’s now my go-to eq for color and non technical eq work!
Great content man! You sold me on picking this up today! Glad you're safe and well!
Ahh Yeah I also LOVED the Chandler Curve Bender, and it always was a dream EQ for me as well (ecstatic to see it in plugin format).. But if you haven't tried out their Zenner Limiter, or Softube's Chandler Germanium Compressor.. they're also "stupefyingly" good - even the Germ Comp pushed - I was surprised & basically shocked how much more roundness & punch on the low end I was hearing - even on my HS7's (which are only a 6.5" cone) - something I never exprerienced from ANY other software compressor high end plugin I've tried (idk about "them all", but i've 'tried a lot'!)... The Germanium Drive and Feedback knobs REALLY gives you that Germanium style tone.. Softube really knocked these, and the recent Kerry King JCM800 straight outta the park.
Big Smiles all around on these products!
You really know what is best of the best stuff out there :) I just happened to jump across this plugin yesterday and used it for some experiments. It blew my mind, to say the least. I think there's no better mastering EQ than the Curve Bender by Softube. It emulates some specific grain and saturation that the hardware adds, amazing stuff.
Really nice, loving the air that it adds and the extra grip in the low ends. Price is great too with the actual discount. Great presentation! Kindest Regards from your friend François in Montreal, Canada! 🎼🃏🎶🎵🙏😁👍🌠
Excellent demo!
Used the hardware extensively for a few years and just loved it, on all sorts of material. I wish the low mids went down to 200hz and the high shelf down to 1.6k though. Either way, Softube have done a fantastic job on this. Picked it up in January and have used it every day since. So musical
I have to say, every single thing I’ve bought from Softube ended up being 100% top notch quality in sound and musicality. They really nailed analogue emulation SO well. Most of the stuff on my 2-bus is softube at this point. The bus compressor, chandler eq, and their TAPE PLUGIN… wow. The tape one really blew me away. After that i run the mixes through my optical tube compressor with VERY light settings and then print out the mixes through my SSL fusion. Really some great stuff from softube. They’ve got a lifelong customer after all their amazing plugins I’ve bought from them.
the presence knobs really do the magic here transforming it into royal polish
It does put a smile on my face cuz everything is balance as it should be 😂😁
So I downloaded the Demo and this has overnight become my all time favorite plugin. Its so badass that I started showing it off to friends.
It will make your best mix look like it wasnt shit before you added this in it. I wish I could afford it though. I am looking at the RS56 as an alternative.
Bought the console 1 version 2 days ago. Can’t wait to run it! 🔥🔥🔥
Just bought this plugin after using the demo for 2 minutes or so. What also helped was the discount they had on Softtube.
Glad to see you back. I sent messages to UA-cam telling them how great your channel is and that they need to bring it back for my sanity
Thank you Kody! They've been awesome and fixed everything in no time
Thanks for everything you do man.
This and the gulfoss are our new secret weapons
That smile is priceless Dave, keep it up lol. Don't tell your wife about the plugin, she might get jealous
How's quarantine going? 2 of my 3 jobs got sidelined but I'm getting in a lot of running and learning new shit. Much love!
This is an amazing eq
after few years still love this plugin
100%
I love it... wanna try it on vocals
Love Softube products! Really tasty stuff. - chaz
SUPERB!!!. GREAT VIDEO MAN. THANKS. WANT TO HAVE IT😁
Saw that your channel missing yesterday, immediately went aw hell. Glad it was a quicker fix this go-around. How would you compare the Curve Bender to the Manley Massive Passive as far as opening a mix up? Different saturation characteristics aside
Yes all solved thank you. Manley is smoother and it's power is in the cut/boost at the corner frequency, it's a pultec on steroids so it's all about the musical phase shift and it's designed very well. The bender is more straight forward (the MP has indeed a learning curve) and easier so to speak but it can't do the trick the manley does. Personally this is one of those cases in which I would split genres between them, rock, indie, heavy bender, everything else MP, with hip hop in common, but I might like the MP a tad better in the low end.
Acustica Audio new Coffee is very nice as well. Includes Germanium Tone Control. Alo lots of nice preamps :)
I agree, you should try it David!
We should do something together with them soon
MixbusTv awesome! I am a fan of them from the early days of nebula. Although the comps needed some work the eq and for instance taupe is really amazing. Their latest comps like coffee and others are awesome now too. But you need the horsepower. I am really curious of your opinion David. Too be honest i think you will be blown away. Especially their eq’s. Thanks for all the great video’s mate
@David G, I know I fly off the handle sometimes, but thank you for not cancelling me; it really means a lot to me. I like how responsive you are to us in the comment section. Grazie mille!! Here's another question from my personal yet calculated grab bag: how do you classify the Weiss EQ1? As an additive EQ? And how would you classify the Chandler Limited Curve Bender? As a mastering additive EQ or just a mastering EQ?
Weiss=problem solver, as precise and transparent as it gets. CV=color enhancement, doesn't work on everything
@@mixbustv Thank you that sounds about right.
Waves rs 56 and soft curve bender are Lit
Hey man, I'm curious about it...what MSI model is that laptop? Does it handle properly large mixes?? (I'm just about to get a MSI) Thanks for the info and great video as always!!
GS603 7RD stealth. It depends what a large mix is for you, sure it doesn't handle a mix I do on my main machine, but I also don't use it for mixing
The waves RS56 is also surprisingly good. For us poor people, I guess
Good one!
Yeah I thought that was a great EQ too!.. Softube is pricey, but they're worth it if it's on deep sale!
Well waves is a subscription that you pay yearly so softube you own your plugins and no yearly subscription
@@mrvron you can buy waves and use permanently. I bought my first waves plugins in 2018 and use them to this day without any additional cost.
@@banigrisson good for you
I came across another original pultec style EQ, it's called Lindell TE-100. What do you say about that one? Would you make a review?
The lindell is a low price unit,/clone I can't imagine the plugin being better than the very good original pultec plugins.
Could it replace your drawmer in your mixbus chain? I mean isn't it too colored after neve/ssl?
No it's not, but not being a full parametric I wouldn't replace it with the Drawmer
Ok so as a soon as I saw the GUI I thought it was the waves TG mastering chain. When you said curve bender, it reminded me of the RS56 passive EQ from waves. Wondering if it compares or is even anything like those.
They're different, RS56 is well, passive, smoother, less in your face and it overlaps in all bands, this covers more the mid and high range overlapping those bands and it's more colored and open, faster on the transients too
MixbusTv thanks so much for the insight! 😀
cool, and versus massive passive ( very good for me) for electro .. i look also dangerous, hittville nice less setting, neve 1073 high 12k great. bie
Do they do huge discounts like plugin alliance?
This thing is amazing but quite pricey though.
They do the sale just ended unfortunately the channel was down for few hours and delayed the video release.
I have the real thing and exactly as you describe it, I always have the same feeling 😍 how would you say compares to the SPL?
So very different animals. This is a sweetening eq the SPL is THE mastering equalizer, so precise, it can literally do anything, insane headroom and part of the music no matter what you do
@@mixbustv Yeah I believe it has the highest headroom of most if not all. I use Bettermaker as the precision eq but yeah Curve Bender really gives a nice colour to the type of music I usually work on. Thanks for responding.
Hairs are fly af
I had Covid19 but I'm back to 100% better now
Damn,hope you're well
MixbusTv I’m feeling back to my regular self now. Thank you kindly Sir
MixbusTv Just keep the videos coming
How close does it come to the hardware equivalent? Does it get you 90 percent there?
Yes! Its amazing
is the tg 12345 by waves the same plugins but a different gui
NO it isn't. The TG 123345 doesn't have adjustable Bass n treble. Those are static and only 1 Precence has kHz selection. The closest on Waves would be the RS56.
Definitely different
How does this one sound compared to the UAD version?
They're the same
@@mixbustv Thanks man! Love the videos! Can you do one on the Rupert Neve Portico 2 Master bus processor?
Hi David. Would you say, if I haven´t a specific Mastering EQ yet in my arsenal, this one could be a go to? Thank you.
BTW, I often watch videos from you, where I got the impression, you like the VSTs you showcase but you wouldn´t buy or use them, maybe you present them for other reasons. But when ever I see those rare presentation where you show this certain smile on your face or hear that special something in your voice, I know...yes, this is it :)
I can't use all the things I have :D not all the time all of them, but if I have it there's a reason or I won't keep em. This one, I used in every single mix I've done since I got it, this, the Zener and the Harmonic (I got these Softube at once) not used them for mastering, also, I mix about 4 tracks a week :D I don't show them all, with that said, I present the things that I like and I think will be useful for the audience.
In fact, I tell you I wouldn't get this as the only mastering eq, granted that Fab Filter ProQ3 is totally fine for mastering to fill the spaces this one will leave, but, this is more of a refined sweetening eq, the mids and highs it has are second to none, but if you need surgical work or more control on the low end, you can't with this one. Worth the price for the things it can do? Yes for me it does, but I mix for a living. If you want one shop stop mastering eq, I'd say get the Slick Mastering EQ: bit.ly/3dk57VS and if you want color add a saturator to it, there are so many. Another one that I presented and used it (several instances actually) on every single project I mixed since, is the BlakQ bit.ly/3c8D0Zr you would have a really nice combo with this two as the second had 2 stages of really nice saturation. Here, with less than $100 I gave you a full set. Remember a lot of professionals watch my channel, and I present tools for both home users and pros, and for a pro, a plugin or an hw is an investment worth making.
@@mixbustv Hi David. Awesome. Thank you as ever for your ongoing help. I got both, the BlackEQ and the TDR Mastering EQ and I like both of them. Cool. Sometimes I forget about all the stuff when amazing new things come out. I wanted the Zener Bender also more for mixing individual tracks or groups. Is the BlackEQ equally good? I also got the VQA-154 EQ from Fuse Audio. Hmm, if you´d say this would replace the Zener Bender in a good way, I would save a lot of money, what is very important for a non professional musician :) Would be glad if you can drop some further 1 or two lines. Thank you and have a great weak.
I forgot, I also got FF Q3 a long time now, but I am not convinced about - quality wise - how it handles the low end.
Bro, your UA-cam channel was deleted yesterday ? What happened ? lol By the way, it's too bad you don't keep the live sessions with the F.A.Q. A special reason for that ? Thanks a lot from France. ;)
Yes went down for a minute, UA-cam fixed it. No the replay will be available
F me sideways, that sounds great!
You are evil I just purchase the EQ1 and now im heading to Softube to get this