Pulsar Modular P455 MDN Sidecar & P450 MDN EQ: Marc Daniel Nelson Signature Series Bundle Plugin
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- An idea fueled by collaboration, a shared passion for sonic excellence, and the vision of bringing a complete audio workflow to your fingertips. The P455 MDN Sidecar is a mixing and mastering audio plugin capturing the analog OTB chain of Marc Daniel Nelson- a two-time Grammy and French Academy Award-nominated mixing engineer, music producer, creative director and educator.
Chapters:
00:00 INTRO
00:35 DESCRIPTION
4:30 OVERVIEW
13:53 AUDIO SAMPLES
24:23 FINAL THOUGHTS
www.marcdanielnelson.com/
www.pulsarmodular.com/
Music track by: Alex Mick • Alex Mick - THE WAY SH...
#pulsarmodular #marcdanielnelson #summing #audiomixing #audiomastering #P455MDN #equalizer #audiomixing
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All I can say is God bless you. I started in analog in the 80s and mixing totally in the box does smush or "constipate" a mix. This actually made be teary-eyed. Well done indeed.
I couldn't agree more. This is the first plugin that has ever made me emotional
The mix already sounds fantastic.
I tried the demo and have to say that it sounds pretty fantastic. However, I put it on a mix and replaced my usual mixbus EQ Knif Audio Soma with the Sidecar with it and got it to 98% sounding the same. The harmonic distortion modeling on the Pulsar is second to none and the additional compressor certainly rounds of the transients beautifully. When I blind tested both versions of my mix I was hardly able to distinguish between the two, however when I did a blind shootout, I preferred the Knif Soma version 100% of the time.
What I found particularly interesting was, that I had to put on 120% stereo spread and the mono maker to 60Hz to achieve similarity. So that’s probably something of the special sauce happening in the Pulsar. Nonetheless great sounding plugin, albeit pretty pricey.
You had already finished the mix with the Knif, so your ears have already got accustomed to that EQ. Knif is tube based EQ while ours are virtual op-amp based. So it has a different character. Update this thread once you start on a new mix and now in reverse, use the P455 EQ and at the end take it out and use the Knif and see how you feel about it.
I have to give it to @@pulsarmodular on this. Fair is fair.
This guy's an actor, actually this guy is Jude Law's cousin
the acustica API samples sound incredible. definitely want to try this out though.
It sounds much better than Acoustica - besides, the Acoustica squeeks and spikes drive me mad.
@@Schilliebillie eh idk about sound better although i will try this out. the cpu spike is absolutely annoying though.
Loving this on busses and master! I would really recommend the ability to bypass the A/D as an option AND more wet/dry options esp when we are using on a master....sometimes I want a little of the color but still some transparency from before. Preferring the Line Amp off on the master to keep it super open. Also wet/dry on the compressor :) Anyway, loving how smooth and beautiful it sounds.
I think the plugin looks beautiful mostly, but the top bar looks like Waves in an unpleasant way. Strange, as Pulsar usually does suuuuch a top notch job with the design of their stuff.
That is the opposite of the emails Ive been getting
This plugin is very cool
🎉😮by itself , but add p42 and Goodhertz Tupe OMG
Congrats guys! Sounds amazing!!
I have learnt a lot from Mark over the years and his attention to detail is what always impresses me most.
He having worked with Bill Schnee says it all.
Congratulations on your new plugin.
This sounds irresistible - excellent overview, thanks!
sounds lovely - like all the demonstrations on Marc's page we hear, how great his taste and skills are in context
Sounds great in terms of eq & overall colour, but the absence of a proper easily relatable gain reduction meter, the unnecessarily clunky procedure for output gain compensation and the price are just silly, IMHO.
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Also, I would worry if my choices of A/D conversion made such an audible difference as the two being emulated (??) in this plugin seem to exhibit.
To each their own, I guess.
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The Gain Reduction read out is clear as day giving you exact number down to the 10th of a decimal point. Hitting SHIFT to get Auto gain is not at all clunky when you are wanting to use it on and off on the fly versus having to hit a button to turn it on and off. The opposite really. Price for 2 plugins is very fair.
@@marcdanielnelson317 Hmm, agree to disagree, I guess:
-the GR is not unclear, indeed it's very precise, I wrote "easily relatable", meaning not everchanging tiny numbers in the top edge row, but a good old VU/LED/PPM style meter like 99.9% of compressors people are used to
-clunky, in this context, for me means unusual, requiring a different thought or additional move, to which there already have been more elegant solutions
-the price may seem very fair from your chair, but IMHO companies like Valhalla or Boz or TDR get that right, i.e. very fair would be approx half of what it goes for now on "sale" - do remember that there are different markets and economies, and that one can buy a full pro DAW (without which a plugin is useless) for just 2x that price.
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This aside, I appreciate you answering, and more importantly I'm a big fan of your work, sound and ear!
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Pretty Darn cool.
Hold shift while toggling the red input pot and it automatically compensates the output sliders. Maybe it was mentioned and I missed it but worth knowing.
Great job, congrads on this! I was wondering when you were gonna jump into the game
WE WAIT SSL FOR YOU MAN❤❤❤
Fantastic work Mark ,will add this into my work flow and provide feedback ;)
Thanks Marc!
this song is amazing 🥲
this is the perfect example of a "last 2%" plugin. Don't need it, but wooWHEE it sounds fluffy & thicc.
How does the summing work???? It's not made very clear
Simply insert it on your 2-bus and voila, you are done!
@@pulsarmodular that doesn't explain how it works
another great plugin that is prohibitively expensive for the majority of consumers
Remember, investing in good gear saves money the long way. This plugin easily replace a lot of other stuff and the urge to buy more plugins minimizes.
not true lol@@nichttuntun3364
Best to buy one stellar plugin once a year, than 20-30 $29.99 plugins throughout the year. Do the math. I have (meaning, it's not hard math).
I hooked P455 as channel for an M/S mic setup for an acoustic guitar... MIND F***ING BLOWN!!! it sounds fantastic!
Marc’s “yeah buddy!” face after switching to Atticus at 15:54 lol
is there a diff between pulsar audio?
Yes, they are two complete different companies.
I get that it’s a marketing ad, if you didn’t tell me what was what I wouldn’t listen to the song any different. Songs are good or not good to the end listener. All the gear or plug-ins in available in this world can’t change that. I don’t hear enough difference to make me like or dislike the song more or less. Just my 2 cents
A valid opinion - but I'd argue that maybe you haven't been producing for a very long time. Eventually I think everyone in this profession reaches the conclusion that you only get one fleeting chance to make your first impression with a song. The emotional impact of the song is decided on the first listen. Everything you heard after his first play of it is likely not going to change the way you feel about the song.
With that said, a mixer's pursuit is to make the best first impression possible. I could definitely feel the enhanced emotional appeal of the song after some of his changes. If it were my first listen, it might have helped me better connect with the track. If you don't feel this way, mixing might not be the right pursuit for you. The world needs creators, producers, mixers, engineers, etc so there's no problem with that!
Oh No!!! Not ANOTHER channel strip.
How dare these people make plugins
Hi Marc Daniel & Pulsar. If you truly wanted to show how accurate of an emulation this plugin is you should have done a proper A/B test. It seems a little disingenuous to have the real thing sitting right behind you and not compare them at least briefly as a testament to how accurate your plugin design is.
There's another channel where someone is doing that with their API analog summing.... It stacked up impressively
@@ramspencer5492 sure, I can believe that, my point is it’s a little frustrating for a plug-in developer to say the main function is an emulation a hardware chain and then not even demonstrate how accurate of an emulation it is, but rather just “take their word for it”. Customers are rightful to be weary of overly positive sales language and bold claims these days.
Pulsar Modular are becoming one of beasts of analog emulation in the digital realm. Cool to see them collab with engineers, they'll only learn more that way. Pulsar is a brand to watch out for in future for sure. Can't wait to try the Sidecar
All facts!!!
Absolute best
Hey Marc, any way you can share some wav files for comparison?
Man, the analog warmth, glue, depth and sheen, is just beautiful. Great job!
Couldn’t have said it any better
I think you nailed this one Daniel. It really does feel more like hardware since you really "can't make it sound bad" and it makes everything sound better. Wish you a lot of success with this.
congratz on the plug Marc!!! Sounds amazing!
“Silkiness that puts a smile on the face” sums it up about right for me. I’ve been listening on repeat to some parts of the video because the sound felt so good that it made me smile.
I love "velvet puff". :) And the fact that no matter what you do and how many instances you use, there is no sign of harshness or the piling up of negative digital artifacts, even when the plugin is pushed. That's incredible.
AMAZING WORK!
Wow! I downloaded the demo and tried it for like 10 minutes. Bought it straight away. Great sounding and inspiring to use. Congratz Marc!
When you switched to Mod 2, it sounded FANTASTIC… The very right mood for the song. Looks like a great color box. And the EQ feels pretty expansive (and expensive). We needed this plugin, I think.
Love the way he explains his thought processes. Gold! 😊
Saw the email the day of release and have been reading every post in headspace and testing this plugin myself the past 5 days. Prior to that I was watching Marc’s videos regarding how his different AD converters impart different sounds and found that to be very useful after importing those stems for myself to hear. Seeing all this plugin offers and the originality behind its design AND the intention behind it is fantastic. I’m a huge fan of Pulsar Modular’s tools and Marcs teachings, this couldn’t have came during a better time. Thank you to you both for your innovation and dedication. Just finished a mix with these last night and it replaced the mix I had considered to be done without these tools. Also… READ THE MANUAL! All of PM tools are very detailed and if you take the time to read and understand these tools you’ll get the most out of them. Arigato!
-Crispy Akiyama
Well done you. Sounds frikin awesome. Great stuff Marc and Pulse Modular.
Marc truly is amazing! This sounds amazing, congratulations and great job!
Can’t wait to demo this. I got P42 cause of you. Then I discovered the P44 after that and abyss. They’ve taken over my mix bus and things have never sounded better!
Thanks Marc for demoing the plugin on my tune!! It sounds delightful!!
Great track. I watch Marc’s videos just as much for the music as the reviews / instruction.
Congratulations for achieving this together with Ziad and thank you for persevering with the arduous and meticulous work process. Having tested this for over 2 months now, I can say it could not have been more rewarding. The video is awesome and it´s just a pleasure to listen to you and the audio - till the last second. I wish the MDN product-line it will get all the attention it deserves. 🙂
You have to present a plugin with such a good song. Great presentation Marc.
Sounds incredible! Great explanation. What an insane plugin. Something so satisfying about API tones and this seems like a heartfelt homage. Will buy
So happy for you Marc, very well deserved!
i love it mark gonna grab one
MCD is such a cool guy and fantastic audio engineer!
Agreed great guy
Congrats y'all, sounds great. 🔥
Song sounds just gorgeous, amber for my ears. That's a great job and great devotion. Thank you all!
Thank you very much!!
It just sounds so good on a 2bus! Can't wait to discover where else I will use it 🙂! Great job!
Fantastic Ziad and Marc, sounds fantastic!! Im a deep P42 User plus the P65 and the Lunar lander, great for special sauce!!
Exciting news!
Sounds really beautiful. Congrats.
Been testing this on some mixes for different clients and it’s exactly what I have been looking for for so long 👏🏼👏🏼🥹 incredible incredible job on this. Love all the different colors and how the bands react when cut or pushed, and the analog openness is so great. Almost went for the UAD Mastering Comp for a similar effect but this has way more. Sorry I’m rambling.. THANK YOU!
you know all these plugins that emulate analog gear, and doesn't EXACTLY get it, they're good but something is off,
But with THIS plugin, it's the real deal. We finally did it, can't tell the difference between analog and digital anymore.
Pulsar Modular does really scary good plugins that feel like Analog. I know this is gonna be insane!
So nice ! Smart GUI, great features, useful modules and beautiful sound. No bells and whistles. My favorite features (beside the sound and the knowledge of a master music engineer and producer) : clickable text, double-click for reset, HD resizable GUI, VU Meter with peak values with in and out values, output gain per module, the filter buttons and fader with great resolution. One of the fastest workflow i ever seen. Thanks Marc Daniel Nelson & Ziad Sidawi. 👌
Bravo for your work. Fantastic plugin!
Great plugin!! Bravo Marc
wow - fantastic! great presentation
Nice video, Will try the plugin . That said it’s hard if not impossible to hear the subtle differences when the plugin is ON Verses OFF. Not your fault…youtube Audio is too low resolution
If mark did a video for coffee and dog food id buy that.
Im so close to buying a 5500. I probably still will, but this thing is cooool
access analog?
@@jorykevinberger7047 love it, use it all the time. But i like to own my favorite gear
I'm going crazy, every product you make is not like what you've done before, or like anything else! Thanks again PM!
Whoa.
Tested couple of days and this plugin is just amazing! Make tiny steps in each section and after that press on/off you can hear huge difference - thanks MDN!
Awesome
noice !
Very cool! Nice job.
I love this song! And I LOVE this plugin just demoed it and WOW! That sounds like a console! 🔥
why label it ratio a and ratio b? why not just put 1.2:1 and 1.8:1? This kinda crap is the reason I keep neglecting these plugins when it comes time to mix down... JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS
If you know you know. Why cry about it?
Nice - spoken like an amateur who has plenty of time to wander through tutorials all day and never make/mix any music. I am not alone in my "crying" - as an actual professional who has to make deadlines, I am not using the same tools every single day. SO when I pull out the plugin after a week of using outboard/other plugins on a few tracks and I forget which ratio is which, I am more likely to chuck it aside and move on because I don't have time. @@Feerlyss
by the way I'll add that I think the sound from this plugin is incredible & potentially unmatched. I WANT to use this plugin because of that, but I am repeatedly frustrated with Pulsar's CONSISTENT UI fails that seem to stem out of pure arrogance.
Imagine designing a UI that only you know and the rest of the world needs to read a manual to understand.
Imagine believing that everyone who tries your plugin will develop a cult-like obsession and use it daily for the rest of their lives... and then building your UI around that belief.
This is called bad UI design - it typically stems from a lack of empathy for the end user.
@@user-bo8ex4ji7n I'm not the one crying about a button
@@user-bo8ex4ji7n it does sound incredible I just picked it up and stuck it on a few of my projects. It can be subtle or it can be very heavy. The airyness it adds to things in the back of the sound field is rather pleasant. Reverbs shine.
can we just take a step back and really enjoy the way Mark explains how this plugin works? its so natural and the examples are so high quality it makes everything just feel so natural.
dud, this is magic x_x
velvety puffiness. :)
That's the one I caught as well :)
I can't wait to try this, sounds sensational. The depth on the low end of the kick was incredible. Love the fact it's a labor of love for MDN, dude is a great engineer and teacher.
your great taste definitely coming through on the audio examples - love how it makes everything interdependent without being squashed. the right kind of magic glue. **DOWNLOADS AND TRIES DEMO** ok this a perfect 'finishing touches' plug-in - I"m adding it to a mix which already has outboard 2-buss stuff of a very high quality (Unfairchild, Overstayer, Terry etc,) and it's a great way to manipulate the 3D space a little more - it's very immediate and I definitely needed to back off the bias in order not to overdo things but I would say this is an instant purchase. things like this and the new Coil CA-70 are taking plug-ins to a new level and blow away the flat IR style plugs from the likes of Acustica which always sound like someone stuck a filter across the music to me. these actually have non-linearities and respond to what's coming in. bravo!
Beautiful, Beautiful...
Congrats Mark!
sounds dope Marc
If Marc Daniel Nelson condones it, I buy it. Trust that man completely. This sounds great and awesome to see a collaboration between you guys!
watching Marc's excitement throughout this is just infectious. I know he doesn't connect his name to many brands or companies, so to see him so pumped about this is a massive endorsement of authenticity!
After testing this I think the sidecar is great! While the separate EQ sounds nice I don't think it's particularly special. It would be nice to have the option to buy these separately.
I have a serious question and depending upon the answer, I will either buy the plugin or not.
I mix Atmos with a very similar concept to your summing. I have a 12 stereo channel master bus with a Lindell 50 Channel with different TMT settings and an API550A on each with the opamp driven a bit. The compressor that comes beforehand on each channel is sidechained externally to the stereo bus so the Atmos mix gets compressed the same as the stereo mix.
So the question is does your plugin take a external sidechain?
It is exactly the plugin of my dreams if it does. 🙏🏾😉
wow the A B is actually insane. As soon as you took it out everything got noticeably dull and flat. It adds a crazy amount of space between each element while maintaining their complimentary relationships. Air, man. Its all about that air.
You are great, Marc!. All that u said its true, and ease to fell. Congrats and thank U!.
😍😍😍😍😍
I just tried the demo and omfg! sound great, just set the input and thats it! I liked Willie for this song
Sounds amazing and Marc seems like a genuine guy backing this plugin. No snake oil. I pulled the trigger, the separation, depth and sheen it brings sounds very professional.
Love this and love Marc!you are my biggest mixing and Audio hero in general. Because of that I do wish the comparisons would be level matched a little better tho’
The plugins own input and output meter show a clear difference throughout the video.
Alas It’s marketing, so understandable.
Can your share your 2 bus EQ settings?
realy analog sound !!!!!
Team Atticus all the way!
GREAT NOW DO THE NEVE SHELFORD VERSION
This thing is a serious resource hog!
another "best in a market" one.... .5 years of development, etc..Right! Anyway - these are .too expensive no matter how good they are. Pulsar Modular prices are ridiculous. I wonder if anyone paid them money they ask for their very "special" products. If you want analog - get hardware , don't trust "emulation algorithm" and other B.S.
tell me how you really feel?
You should stop fooling people! Teach them how to mix properly (so the mix would not sound "constipated in the first place") instead of turd polishing with $250 plugin - that's how I really feel.
No one, absolutely, no one! Can "teach" you how to mix a record. Maybe you're just not good at mixing. Reason being... this product is phenomenal, and I heard it as soon as I inserted it. If placed on submix or master bus of a project that's "mixed" well, it shines bright like diamond. Seriously, I own a lot of plugins and some hardware, and this thing is the real deal. Despite the price tag, it's worth science put behind it.
250 is more than fair for the bundle and 189 into price is a steal. The plugins have excellent audio quality and that will save you money the long way, as those tools will sit in your folder a very long time; and they will replace a lot of stuff, if you start to compare.
You sound like you are a paid plant for Pulsar modular. I've never heard a normal person spit out so many numbers to convince a total stranger why they "need" something. It's similar to the Jedi mind trick approach where one simply tells another "what you say is too expensive is actually a bargain. you will buy it and it will make your life better. You will feel whole again after buying 200- 400 dollar plugins that make such a small difference that only other producers and engineers will be able to discern, but trust me you need this." @@nichttuntun3364
The nasal sound in the vocal without the plugin is crazy
If anyone has superhero hearing that can feel this correctly, that's Marc!