This Channel Strip Sounds EXPENSIVE! - SPL Channel One mk3
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Always had SPL Tools...( Vitalizer, Chanel One, Deeser,Transient Designer, etc.)...since roundabout 1995 ... and I would always highly recommended their gear ...very high build quality and sounds fantastic...
So so good!
If this was a stereo unit it would be a no Brainer at that price point
SPL make a stereo version!!!!
Yerh would by it to if they made that stereo
@@hiddenmaterial They did have a much cheaper mono version without the transient designer..
and also SPL Frontliner Modular Channel Strip that has a more capable compressor for about $800 less. The transient designer by itself is only $380 or so in 500 format
To me (and most others), 2149 € / $ 2199 IS quite expensive 😝
It is, but for how this sounds, feels, and looks, I would have expected it to be more
Might as well be a million to me. Took me 4 years to save up for a crown and I have dental insurance
Nah not when it comes to audio equipment 😂 I don't know how long you've been making music but for a CHANNEL STRIP this is a bargain lol
@@blazing6stringWhy are you torturing yourself watching videos like this? Recording is a more expensive habit than coke.
@@louderthangoddepends how often you do coke
I love that you're reviewing more hardware. Keep going!
SPL is amazing, I was blown away by their Vitalizer. Thank you for the video.
Transient designer is on my wish
list, I have the vitaliser and love it,
the SPL stuff is amazing 🤩
It really is!
Older, multichannel version of transient designer can be had pretty affordable on Reverb every now and then.
@@Carsonchildersmusicnow Yeah, we have some great 2nd hands gear sites in Europe, mostly way cheaper than Reverb. I have my bid on model 9842 now, should be able to get it for 500 bucks. SPL still sells the 2 channel versions brand new for 449,- in their webshop 👌🏼
I have one sitting in my room waiting to get wired up. This video was an excellent primer. My only wish was, if there was an insert/return! But, for the level of flexibility and how top shelf it sounds, there really is no faulting it.
I'd just love to record a voice over through it 😁 I've had my eye on the Mk2 for a good while (either that or an Avalon 737), but the Mk3 is now the lead contender.
Brilliant review! I’ve had the MKII since it came out and it’s been on every vocal since. SPL make fantastic gear. Tempted to upgrade just to have the transient designer onboard. Subscribed!
See now between this and the last video, Colt has got me look at hardware.... thanks for that 😂
Your welcome 😜😂
Plugins are good but hardware is still the champion. It's best to have the correct tool for the job, sometimes it's a plugin sometimes it's hardware.
Sounds like Lester! That tom section reminds me of Pillar 👊🏼🤘🏻
It’s Lester!! He did all drums and percussion and I played every other instrument 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thank you for the killer review Colt!
Man SPL makes the classiest looking gear. Sounds absolutely incredible in your demo too. Brillant video as ever Colt. Cheers!
What do you think about two of them, and running synthesizers through them, as well, Colt? Synth bass, leads, and pads …
Great video! SPL gear is really amazing!
You are my new favorite producer dude! Great videos
That air band definitely is something. Reminds me of the Vitalizer a little bit. SPL really keep bringing the heat
For a price that this hardware comes, it feels like it's a steal! I mean if you compare it to other preamps or other individuals like blue tech tube compressor or LA - 2A. (only talking about price) In my opinion it is definitely worth it! Absolutely must! thanks for the review and for the understandable examples. Love your content!
dude, thank you…i’ve been hoping for you to do a review on this unit 👍 and now to find a way to get a pair !😅!
This is awesome and amazing ❤
We love this new Channel strip from SPL and have one in our flagship studio A. We also have the Tracking channel in one of our other studios. SPL gear is amazing, we started with a speaker selector and now use and recommend a selection of the models here at Empire Melbourne. As well as the new Channel strips we also have 2 of the Crescendo 2 channel units and one of the 8ch Crescendo preamps. They all have huge dynamic range without distortion and are also so so quiet.
@@whome3911 we mainly use them for acoustic instruments and specific music genres where huge dynamic range is the thing like classical piano or guitar works, strings and Ochestra predominately where you want to go from very quiet to very ff loud without distortion or noise floor. The Channel Strip Mk3 might suit your singer-songwriter work more than the crescendos would. Are you in Melbourne? If so please give me a call at Empire, you can come in for a look at both, we also act as a retail supplier for both units along with many other brands.
Great review and now added to my must audition hardware list. Out of interest what vocal compressor are you using after the SPL?
Amazing stuff.
For a master processor, apart from what you mention about it not having a Bypass i also miss a SC filter and a Dry/Wet mixer
Wow this piece of gear is 🔥‼️
Man this thing is nice! Totally gonna have my on it. Price isn't that bad.
Bruh you the best 😂😂🔥🔥‼️‼️. This is a dope piece oooweeeee
Between this and the RND Newton, both similarly priced modern channels strips with saturation, which is prefered? Great video as always. Thank you.
I think I'd go for this
Impressive. This is 1 of the more affordable SPL hardware too
They got a mono thinner less premium version. I'm sure it lacks nothing at al. Maybe switches and obviously less i/o. Even their plugins are outstanding compared to any because they all have real MOJO and crazy configuration( negative ratios, weird sustain, attac and release,.) Their eqs are just magic man. You just need their bx plugs and you can mix away. Really dreamy characters. They just God man. (On gawd) 🎉
Ordered a SPL Track One Mk III - can't wait to get it.
how are you liking it so far?
@@mixedbyedd It will become my daily channel strip.
Impressive. Fun fact, I am a SPL endorser since the late 90s and I think, I own the most pimped Channel One first edition of the world.
There's something fun using a channel strip, even the less quality ones. This is lovely. I love using my cheap Presonus strips on acoustic guitar and bass. I like a more thicker sounding acoustic guitar. What you came up with is a little to bright for me 😉 thanks for this video brother
Thanks for watching!
Hi Colt! Thanks for the review. I love the recommendation that this would work best for pop/rap vocals which is my focus. I recently saw your review for the RND Newton channels and I really like them as well. They both seem great and similar price points. I mainly record with a U87ai. Do you have a preference for one over the other?
Made in Germany.
SPL is so amazing. Love it!
Man I miss my Gainstation 1 too...
If I can make one request, MAN would I love seeing your take on their Crescendo mic pres. They’re a Grace/Millenia competitor as far as through a wire type clean mic pres but there’s next to no content about them ANYWHERE. Great video as always! And man a channel strip is on my list of things I want.. so you’re not helping my wallet here but I appreciate it.
My eye is on it as well.....gotta say u have real nice modest studio 👍
That's his B room...
hopefully we get a comparison video between this and the Newton channel etc. seems to be top interest in modern strips
That thing does look incredible, eye candy for the studio for sure, that transient designer thing is sweet, I wonder if they make it in a 500 series by its self. I am already too invested in other units at my stage of the game.
Yeah, they should release the transient designer and the deesser as a 500 series unit. Maybe even in one unit..
What I don't understand is that song sounds better than half of the stuff I hear on the radio.
One is for shure....SPL wons the Design price with this Unit....This looks very sexy
i had the mk2 for a while and it was awesome on all kinds of sources, screaming metal vocal, female rap, bass Di...was very happy with it
Soo happy you sold it?
@@hakanjohnson2726 needed doe
Understand 100% as these days we need money more than too much gear 👍🏻
I can't stop smiling!!!🔥
Thanks Colt! People shouldn't sleep on SPL equipment, it doesn't work for every application, but when it does it's almost magical and EVERYTHING they make is extremely high quality. I don't own any of their hardware currently, but I've had a Transient Designer, Vitalizer, Tube Vitalizer, Mix Dream, De-esser, and Daw Interfaces from SPL in the past. They never disappoint. De-essers don't get much air time and are hardly as "sexy" as mic pres and compressors, but SPL makes the best hardware de-essers in the business.They also make some of the lowest noise, highest range mastering, mixing and monitoring hardware out there with their 120v audio rail technology. SPL's recording channels have been practically ignored by the US market, but maybe with its "Iron" compressor looks and enough youtube reviews, the Mk3 will be a best seller.
Correct! People should sleep on beds hahaha
Damn.... Ive always wanted a 737... but this might be the go when I finally rebuild the studio....
Colt, Thanks for an expensive classy review. 😄 Can you please clarify if this is the standard Mk III or the Premium with the Lundhal I/O transformers? This is now on my shortlist for a new channel strip.
I have the same question. Is this the standard or premium?
I’m thinking this is the premium with transformers, as Colt’s rack gear link leads to the SPL Channel One MK3 premium at Sweetwater. I’d still like a confirmation from though.
This unit is Truth
Truth of …. GOD??? Or your weed brain?
Great review Colt,
SPL doesn't know how to fail, they just bring it every time!
Colt I'm feeling a MBT VS this CHANNEL ONE mk3 shootout...juss say'n
This sounds fantastic, but the problem is that, just one of this unit is not enough, at the same time its not practical to buy as many units as we need for serious mixing and summing. How can we be satisfied with just one unit ? 😊
SPL stuff is nice, if you don't have to get it serviced in the US. Their official servicer is awful.
I've had a TD4 unit at the shop in Vegas for about 8 months now (to replace a potentiometer and a couple other components on one of the channels).
I only receive updates when I get frustrated enough to email them every couple of weeks. This is usually met with gaslighting about the tech not wanting to rush the fix, or pointing out that parts ship from Germany, etc.
8 months and counting. I'll never buy SPL again.
How do you compare it to the rnd newton channel?
Great review Colt! Would you consider this a desert island channel strip? Thanks! 🙏
Id be hard pressed to think of a more comprehensive one?
Interesting channel strip, and yes, very much as ANYTHING by SPL, it's well built and the quality is obvious.
👌🏼
BUT - for this price, because it IS expensive, whatever you might say (and I find it sad how compared to their glorious past SPL lately seem to have jacked up their gear pricing logic in getting on the UA-cam bandwagon), IMHO there are several serious features seriously missing:
-variable high pass filter
-at least a couple of switchable "air band" frequencies (makes the eq an undefinedly targeted one trick pony as it is)
-master bypass all switch
-at least a couple fast/mid/slow attack & release switches for the compressor, Summit style
-some better form of two band de-essing metering than one tiny LED (and there even is space for it and also for the above mentioned compression switches in that empty circular faceplate space beneath the VU meter)
-separate or concentric pots for the high/low de-esser bands, just like they have both on their hardware and their plugin, as SPL's de-essing is, to those of us familiar with the company to the decades, just as legendary as their transient designer.
So... 🤷🏼♂️
I see there are 2 versions of this- a Premium model that has Lundahl input and output transformers, which ups the cost about another $280. I would probably go with the lower cost even though they are both above my price range. Or would it be a good investment to go with the Lundahl transformers?
This sounds incredible! Just curious, did you cut this with the Atlantis? (I’ve got one 😂) - and I’m shopping for a strip. This is ticking all the boxes! Hope all is good Colt!
I actually cut this vocal with the Eden. High pass two, Forward on the switches.
I bought this immediately after wacthing this video. lol.
If you had to pick one between the SPL and the Neve Newton channel strip which one would you keep?
There will probably be a video coming on just that. Both of them are versatile enough to use on everything… However, I think the Newton excels at rock, Americana, anything natural, and organic. While the channel one excels at anything more polished, pop, R&B, hip-hop, or any vocals, you would like to have that more poppy polish. I would happily take either, but since I have both this is likely how I’ll be using them.
I love the face of this thing 😍
It looks sooo good!
@@ColtCapperrune Looks really good and I’m very amazed by the results you can get out of this one box!
Hey Colt, I'm a 23 year old mix engineer. I've stopped for nearly two years just to get myself together. Since i just got back in the game, i'm on the lookout for new gear, especially a channel strip for vocals! The genre i work with is mostly Hip Hop, although time to time i get the chance to record and mix some other genres. So i have a question: Would you prefer this unit over the Neve Newton, Tegeler VTRC, or even the Heritage Audio Britchannel? Or should i maybe wait for the Elysia Channex to drop? Any advice would be great! Thanks🙏🏻
GAS
So much GAS
"Transient Designer" on vocal sounded good!
Who knew?
I think Clearmoutain would send high frequencies to another SSL channel and flip the phase, and use it to D-ess. Are there any plugins that work that way?
Which preamps do you think are better? The SPL or the CAPI Heider? Or would they be used in different scenarios?
Hey Colt. Do you think there is any plugin equivalent to this piece of gear? or is it a must buy if I want those things
SPL always releases very good hardware. I owning Vitalizer MK-2T. This is also cool device :)
I didn’t pay for this but you should!!!!! - colt capperune
Best This month LOL
Is it the one with lundhal transformer or without?
Does anyone make something like this for home audio not for recording but for playback?
How about as a line driver for the 500 preamp you promoted?
Thanks, what do you use your second Eaton channel on?
The second Newton?
@@ColtCapperruneyour second Newton channel
Is it possible to run a stereo mic through it like the UAD Sphere since it can take two mics?
Unfortunately, it will only process one microphone at a time. Believe there is a relay in the box that switches inputs. But only one input can be active at a time.
Wait this thing is only mono??? They don't make one for a mix bus In stereo?
I wonder if the premium version sound even better?
You couldn’t get that from your two Newton channels?
Yo Colt - whats this song is it released?
😮😮😮 great day to work with this thing. I guess I am the last to know. But things come to you simetimes in a while. I absolutely thing that it is a fantastic stuff. 😅😅😅😊😮
But you got your Neve channel strip ? Do you need this one ? Feel I need a comparison 😂
They definitely do different things! I’ll likely do a comparison video in the future
They not going let him do that with a product they given him
I do what I want
@@ColtCapperrune how before we see neve vs spl strips
@@ColtCapperrune I really would love it if you did the comparison, Thanks for the vids!
I love SPL products.. can’t wait to get my hands on some hardware
Sounds expensive, IS expensive, but man... SPL looks sexy AF to me.
I can hear that even on a crappy iPad speaker ..nice
Attack and Release?
So this is the version without the transformers?
To amazing not to be crazy expensive. Let me go look it up. Over $2000. Actually worth it IMO.
In the future can you ask the company if you can do give aways for the products you review?
Great ! I only need 7 more of these !
The Sound samples start at 13:12
😂😂 i used to trust you till u was trying to push that wa1b
This or shelford channel?
I want one, but at $2500, I won't be getting one for a WHILE!
Well, it IS expensive.
It is, but given its sound, feel, and looks I would honestly expect it to be more expensive
Compared to what? Budget 250 dollar interfaces lol yes but this is literally a steal for a channel strip of that quality
The title "this channel strip sounds expensive" implies that it's *not* expensive... then i saw it was $2200...
Sounds expensive because it is expensive! May not not be for you big ballers who got bag. My opinion only.
No disrespect but you keep saying EXPENSIVE it is obviously expensive. 😉
The sponsored product review videos you and similar channels are constantly doing are normally annoying. Admittedly, I am glad to know that this exist . I love how you keep using the word classy, all while the vocalist sounds like she is defending her Only Fans now that she is trying to settle down.
😂 yea bro and it costs expensive too
please dont send it back to spl send me it it is soooo freaking sweet like chocolate cookies
Sounds great. I'd like to hear it with GainMatch as well. But really nice.
And... another $2500 I don't have to spend. BLAH!
If you have to add 6db of EQ to the mix, that's mean the mix is bad.
THIS! Is what the expectation is for me when it comes to hardware. Sounds awesome and super usable. And a really cool song.
I agree!!
Outboard gear? for mixing? In 2024? Meh… nah, hard pass!
lol