A MasterBus EQ I Can Trust! | AMEK EQ 200 Demo & Giveaway
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2020
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In today’s video, we are trying out the AMEK EQ 200 plugin! This plugin is based of the first parametric equalizers that started it all and is inspired by the classic sound of icons like the GML 8200 and vintage SONTEC EQs. This is a truly unique plugin, and I love the way it sounds!
The best part is that we also get to give away 10 copies of the AMEK EQ 200! Enter for your chance to win!
After testing out this plugin, I think it could very well be what I would use on my master bus for EQ. The AMEK EQ 200 contains Brainworx’s patented Tolerance Modeling Technology (TMT), which simulates channel to channel variances in order to create the most realistic analog sound possible inside your DAW. What we love about analogue is its randomness; the tiny little differences and idiosyncrasies in each channel that give it personality, and this plugin works to create that digitally. The TMT in this plugin makes it so that each channel is different, just like how on my console the master right and left busses sound slightly different, for example.
This plugin takes what we love about digital and what we love about analogue and combines it into one plugin. The AMEK EQ 200 gives you everything you need to bring the amazing sound and intuitive workflow of the very best vintage EQs to your DAW!
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What would you use this plugin for?
Heck yeah
Everything!!! Lol😁
To eq stuff.... lol
I would use it to master (or even get hints to mix) the previous video! :D
I agree with I would use this plugin for everything also 👍🏾🙏🏾👍🏾🔥😊
If all teachers were as entertaining as you are, there would be more and better professionals. For that, I thank you again Warren
PS: Love the voice in this track. It reminds me of Steven Tyler :)
I love Plugin Alliance - Black Box Analog Design HG-2 is magic!
They have so many great plugins. I have the mix bundle subscription and it's worth every cent
Probably their best plugin
Been using the AMEK since it came out and love it. Plugin Alliance has done it again.
since i got this, it's become indispensable..really musical and you can crank it and it it still retains it's musicality..wonderful eq
This is a complete game changer plugin and I don’t say that often! Great walk through Warren, you helped me immensely in understanding all its functions!
The guys at Brainworx simply know what they're doing, since they came in the game they stepped it up tenfold! I have yet to try the AMEK but from your video you can hear all of its power; what I really like is that auto-solo on bands, which really lets you hear what you're doing with zero hassle, just amazing!
Amazing and informative man! Happy to always see giveaways from you!
Thanks Warren!
I got the Amex 200 over many months ago, on a sweet deal. It was a real game changer, at the time.
It can really dial in some great tunings, especially on the low end. Great to see how in the box solutions just keep getting better and better.
The low end on this is really sweet. That sounds weird to say for a plug in but my 12" JBL studio sub loves it. I love how the solo doesn't cut out all of the other freqs.
Great demo Warren.
Wow, what an fantastic tool. I'm new to production and engineering, but I can totally see the value in having the AMEK EQ 200. It reminds me of a diagnostic tool I would use to find performance e issues in an automotive context. Thank you Warren, PLP, Plugin Alliance and everyone involved.
Very impressive, I think it's greatest attribute is its simplicity. Can't believe how easy it is to achieve pro o/put .. Thanks for the excellent post.
I got a deal from the Plugin Alliance on the Mix & Master annual sub bundle that included this plugin. I messed around with it a bit but it was nice to see a demo from Warren. I will be throwing it on my master Buss and giving it a thorough workout. All the Brainworx stuff I've used has impressed me so far. Love the TMT modelling. I'm going to try the AMEK on everything.
I just got this yesterday for $50. I'm loving it so far.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing
Awesome and very informative video! I just got this yesterday from PA, and was about to dive in. I have it on my master buss in Studio One. Thanks for doing this!
Warren, love your videos. You always have the best content and always share passion in every video. Make sure you are getting enough rest and relaxation and spending good time with your family and friends. You deserve it. Much love from NC
Just downloaded it!
I have the bundle subscription (a great value / option for those wanting to check out ALL their plugs without committing to buy any particular plug) anyway had forgotten to check that EQ out!
Excited to try it out after watching :)
Thanks as always!
looks fantastic! I use the SPL Iron compressor on my master bus, it includes the Plugin Alliance TMT - it's a game changer
Haha loved your face every time this plug impressed you. Such an honest expression of your joy. Ace plug and as always, great dive into the product!
Great video, Warren. Thank you. I love the Plugin Alliance plugins. Dirk and all the other girls and guy from PA make so many great sounding stuff and some very handy tools as well. The ADPTR AUDIO Metric AB for example is such an awesome tool for referencing. This AMEK EQ seems to be the latest amazing plugin from PA. I have to try it out as soon as possible.
Just love Brainworks Plugins! This one sounds awesome!
Thank you for the review!
Really nice EQ Warren. Great features. I would use it on my master bus most likely and in post. Thanks for yet another interesting and insightful video, as always!
Really loved that video. Seeing your process and "play" and discovery was awesome. I get it! Watching and listening was a treat!
Awesome! Thank you!
I really like this review of this plugin. I have used the bx_digital V3 on every mix for a couple of years now, especially for the "mono maker". But I think this one can easily replace that for me. Thanks for such helpful information, Warren!!
Georgously simply laid out MasterBus EQ video hahaha. I love the Chandler Zender Bender Master Bus EQ myself but love to try whatever juicy "in the box" master plugins are help keeping us engineers employed 🧙♂🙌
Your video is awesome as always Warren! I have a question for the mix competition that you might have missed in the last video: will we get a chord/tab sheet if we want to do a remix of the song? Thanks for the info and all the best!
Just tried the demo. I was blown away! 😆 Thanks for the tutorial.
Thanks great to hear Justin!!
Incredible...Great Warren...you´re the best!!!
Again another Fantastic Tutorial, Many Thanks Warren
Your mixes sound great!
Thank you for this. The band Splitting feature was really awesome. This actually inspired me to create my own band splitter preset using Gaffel by Klevgrand and it works like a charm. Thank you so much Warren. 💜
Great Video Warren ! Thanks for this review. Plugin-Alliance also has the bx_digital_V3 which has the same auto-listen function as this AMEK, Mid/Side, Stereo, Mono-Maker, Stereo expander, EQ curve choices etc. etc. - really an amazing mastering plugins and it's on the master bus of many of my projects - the bx_digital_V3 has been among the best there is.
What the Digital_V3 does not have is the TMT. That, to me, could be the game changer since these top plugins often find their way on my BUS's also. So if you have 6 instances of this across your mix and mix-bus, then the TMT could be the thing that really sets the AMEK apart from the digital_V3.
Micheal White (Plugin of the week) also did a really detailed review on this plugin well worth watching where he goes into incredible detail for this AMEK EQ 200. In his review he mentioned how musical the AMEL EQ200 actually is. The EQ curves, according to him, are extremely precise and musical and enhance a master. For me, currently, the bx_digital_V3 does this on my mix bus and on busses.
Awsome to see you excited about the PA products.... I own most of them and look forward to WINNING my AMEL EQ-200 here :-)
Greetings from Switzerland
Great video. I didn't know about the auto-listen feature, that's helpful!
Sounds incredible! I am definitely a newbie and am always nervous about the Master Bus...
I would like to see and hear a comparison video of this and the console mixing of the same song on the master bus ? It would be very interesting to hear the results of the 2 thanks much appreciated for sharing this also 🙏🏾👍🏾🙏🏾
Fantastic content as always, thank you Warren!
Thanks for sharing Warren! Appreciate it!
Thank you! I've bought it :) This one is really great
I really like the way the controls solo the freq range and the fine tuning of small amounts of cut and boost is great. Looks complicated at first glance but is laid out very well. I did enter the giveaway. 10 copies up for grabs is very generous especially considering what it retails for.
Amazing sounding eq!
I was new to Plugin-Alliance last year so I bought a discounted MEGA subscription around Christmas time. Courtesy of the subscription, I've received access to the Shadow Hills Class A, SSL9000J, and this new AMEK EQ. In addition, they sent me a one time use voucher for up to the cost of the subscription. I've been moving away from Waves and closer to nothing but IK and Plugin-Alliance since they easily install on my desktop and my laptop without licensing hassles. I still use a few others that don't overlap, but great stuff.
very effective EQ indeed , i'm really curious to use it on my mixes
i installed a new subwoofer today - i can hear all the low end - pretty good
This plugin sounds great! Love Plugin Alliance
Love it for mastering it brings all my tracks to life!
Neat EQ Warren never saw this one. I'm using mostly the Sonnox Oxford Dynamic EQ AAX version these days.
Giving away ten? Doesn't even surprise me. Dirk is a great guy.
A nice little piece of software. Works really well. Depending on its CPU hunger, I think busses in general are good place to put it on.
This plug is so wonderful.. It sounds like money!!!
Hi Warren, big fan of the channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
I just want to go off topic and request something. I have been producing and mixing for two and a half years now professionally. However, I am always struggling with High End issues. I cannot understand how much high end is necessary in a mix. I like warmth in a mix, but usually when i reference my mixes with the top stuff, they seem to be a lot brighter. I'm just really having a tough time in perceiving the top end.. Can you give your insight on that?
Warren, what are the specs on your main Mac? Just curious on what a master like you are using to mix
this mix is joyful to listen to, i would like to know how Warren manipulates this EQ, thanks for this great demo video!!
This thing looks like a monster!
Brainworx puts some serious deep R&D into their modeling.
They really opened some doors with these two simple features....mono-maker, and click-hold freq analyzing. I don't know if they invented it, but their plugs are the first I've seen with it. Mono-maker does it's job simply and effectively. I've got the bx_Hybrid V2 eq. It also has the mono-maker and click-hold freq analyzing. A HUGE time savor, and really versatile.....I see it as a really good training/corrective tool......revealing issues you may have missed.
Their Brainworx bx_digital_V3 mastering plugin (Plugin-Alliance) has had all these features for years. What's new is the TMT on a mastering grade EQ.
Fantastic, but I can't find where to enter the giveaway with the link you provided above.
Could you tell me about the headphones you are using? Are they ones with an amplifier in them? Thx
I've just bought the Amek 9099 plugin.
Big love.Maybe next sale day.
THANK YOU for focusing on how it sounds rather than banging on exclusively about features like seemingly every other video!!
I think I might be able to live this this, need a real A/B though! Trying to find a plugin EQ I don't hate brought me here. ;) I'm really not being a snob. I'll use a £10 plugin if I prefer the sound. But after using the GMLs (swoon), Focusrite, SSL etc.... I find that I generally last about 5 seconds with digital EQs before having a sort of knee-jerk "I cannot stand it" reaction. It definitely seems almost silly to be coming out of the box into SSL comps/EQs and then back into the box again, but it's still what I do. What do you use on channels?
All I see I have already in my Hofa IQEQV3 Equalizer plugin with the benefit of 2 more bands and compression on top. But it's a nice usable plugin
I could really use this EQ, it sounds great, good review....
Can't believe I missed this giveaway :( AMEK 200 is the only missing plugin in my arsenal :)
Great video Warren. Thanks
Been living on my Master bus and at times group buses. It is bloody amazing.
Thanks ever so much!
@@Producelikeapro Do not look up their Bettermaker EQ. I thought AMEK EQ200 was amazing..and it is, but Bettermaker. oh my oh my
@@SebastianKomor cant even see better maker - outdated graphics..blurry...not in 2021 ...I'll pass. otherwise good.
Great video sir. Thank you for the time
Subscribed with RESPECT!
This and the AMEX 9099 Console are game changing and I don't say that much.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Just got this for $30, can't wait to start using this marvelous EQ
how?? It's $399 on the plugin alliance website.
@@AlexAlcyone It was on sale and I had a voucher
Great EQ! And it's included in the Mix and Master Monthly subscription! And that's just $14.99! Great plugs from PA! Thanks Warren!
Thank you for the walkthough ,I Know how to use it properly now. just bought this for $61.49 dirict from the website. It has to be a steal at this price.
i need that low end focus and stereo image on my master bus now
WARREN I HAVE A SOUNDTRACS 32-8 AS THE HEART OF MY STUDIO I SEE THAT YOU MENTION YOU HAD THEM IN THIS VIDEO, DO YOU RATE THEM ?
THANKS
ALEX
The question is, would you put this before your mix bus compressor or after?
I am sure you have used the UAD Massive passive, how does it compare
Man, I love this thing!!!
Me too! Expect to see it A LOT Mario on my mix bus!!
This is probably something I could use now that I'm in full fledged computer usage mode again. I don't know if I could label the graphics part in a way that would work though, ...maybe Reaper could be used to finesse something like that, making it accessible...just thinking of possibilities...
Hello Warren ,this plug-in is very expensive but it does its job thanks for this demo.
It's not if you subscribe to plugin alliance. Basically $25 a month for 100+ plugins.
My first ever time in a pro studio was over 30 years ago, a place called Twilight (nicknamed Twiglet) in Manchester city center. It had an Amek Angela desk, and to this day that is my idea of the perfect desk, it was almost magical, I really wish there was a plugin channel strip of that very desk.
The other bit of magic in there was a somewhat unreliable Lexicon PCM70 verb and I have that a s a plugin and it's great and I don't ever need to take a screwdriver to it.
I'd love to win this, but if I don't I am highly likely to buy it.
What a piece of kit ...
So if GML emulation is called Amek, will they call the Maselec emulation MCI or what? I was expecting it to emulate Amek Medici EQ or 9098.
Great review as always Warren! But to be fair i don't think this mix needed anything at all, especially in terms of stereo width.
Mono-maker is great though
1. What is your view on online mastering services such as Emastered and Landr? Are these services recommendable for a low budget music producer?
2. Should a track in some cases be mastered twice? For example, one master without, a second WITH the vocal track? In such a case, would an online mastering service meet the necessary requirements?
Deffo gets use on dense metal mixes for me. Adds that magic presence and depth even when just activating the plugin.
When you set the width wider, the bottom end dropped out a bit in my phones. Is that normal?
Phase incoherence will cancel out sub frequencies faster and more noticeably then other frequencies. Any tool that widens the stereo width is doing so by effecting the phase relationship between the left and right channels. The trade off if you use it on the whole frequency spectrum is less low end. This is why some plugs will mono the low end and then widen only the frequencies above a certain point, say 100 hz or so, so you can retain a solid low end. This is also why having multiple low end signals, say a DI bass and a miced bass cab will seemingly have less low end when summed then either individually. Warren will typically use just the sub frequencies from the DI, and high pass the miced bass cab before summing them, so that it retains the phase coherence of the bass, and keeps as much low end as possible. If you already knew this, I apologize, hope this helps. Much love.
Amazing!
Hi Warren. Hope you had a great Christmas time.
Are you still happy with the Amek200 and still using it? If yes, what do you think about how faithful it is to the original audio source? Thanks a lot for your opinion on that. Cheers
It’s still one of the few EQs I might use on my master bus!
@@Producelikeapro cool thank you. I'm thinking of sacrificing my 240 dollars voucher for it. It's 200 euros right now. Have a great time. And a healthy new year :)
@@nichttuntun3364 did u do it or did u get scared and held on to that voucher...
@@nichttuntun3364 did the same thing. Voucher used...That thing is great.
I almost forgot and I think new readers should know that the FABFILTER EQ3 also has the auto-listen function for listening to isolated frequencies etc. as well as many other amazing features, and it's also insanely expensive :-)
FFEQ3 is much cheaper - like 30 bucks with the whole bundle..it' s as good or better than Logic Stock EQ - nothing more ,,.usually DJ;s and single dudes use it, nodding heads on laptops...sweeping frequencies all day to find "problem" spots lmao...
Thanks..great review..
Plugin Alliance has another similar plugin, the bx_digital V3 (earlier V2) that I've been using for a long time on my master bus. It has some features that the Amek EQ 200 doesn't, like the choice between stereo and mid-side, a handy bass and presence shift, de-essing, dynamic eq, balance and correlation meters etc, and it costs less. Perhaps the Amek EQ 200 has more of that analog mojo, it has this THD feature that the bx_digtal V3 lacks,. and perhaps the eq is smoother sounding, I haven't tried it so I can't say. But I'd advise anyone to try-out both before buying.
AMEK has mid/side
Do you know of a reason why auto listen would not be working in pro tools only? I have the amek 250 and for some reason it does not solo the band when I press and hold on it , it works just fine in Logic Pro though
Sounds like something to ask the plug in manufacturer, unfortunately that sounds like an update they might have to do for Pro Tools? Im not sure
Thanks for the feedback , love your content !
Trick on the TMT: It is more obvious when you crank parameters, so the reason it is so subtle for you is because you are precisely using it as a mastering EQ with no extreme settings, but try and see, at least that's how it behaves in other PA plugins I use.
Brainworx kills it everytime!
Amazing looking plug-in. I barely EQ my two-buss at all (..maybe I should :-/ ).....That song is really bloody catchy. Got a really late 90s, Placebo sound to it. Who is it by again??
Ah haa. i went and looked it up and lo and behold 'Produced by Warren Huart.' Knowing more about you now Warren i can totally feel you all over that mix. its not my every day fare but I love it!! took me right back to being 18 or so even though it was recorded long after i was that confusing and wonderful age. Made my day that tbh.
is warren's voice a bit more to the left?
YES ~ I love the AMEK EQ 200 plugin and I will of course use it on my MASTER OUT :)
I also think it's about time a Norwegian person win something Warren... hehe.. ;) I would LOVE 2 win a copy ~ Peace, Love & MUSIC B-)
Wbr ~ Harald
For the less economically capable (or lucky) of us, the band-solo function can also be found on the EQ section of Ozone Elements which is free on Plugin Boutique right now. So... it's great for the price!
For anyone who is not interested in Ozone or the registration process or just gets here late, the Nova EQ from TDR has a band solo function that works exactly like the eq on the video. The new precision+ mode sounds way better than the old precision one (so make sure to update it!).
And the Plugin-Alliance bx_digital_V3 mastering grade EQ processor plugin has ALL the features of the AMEK except the TMT and it can be had for very little money during their sales.
@@mickeymessstudios109 How much little money are we talking about here?
Between this and my UAD Pultecs and UAD Massive Passive, I have my mix/master buss pretty dialed in. All great sounding plugins, but the Pultec still has the extra mojo.
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Hi Warren, thanks alot. I know Dirk from the past, even if just briefliy, since we're from the same town and our scene wasn't that huge :).
It would be great, if you could have a chat with him, what do you think?
Ive been a subscriber to Plugin Alliance's MEGA all year and i think their plugs are amazing
by gum that sound great
Plugin Alliance make really awesome plugins I really love using their “Essential” bundle really amazing collection of great plugins. This one looks absolutely futuristic. Entered the giveaway as always! Hope to win one of the copies! Gonna be using on my mixes and masters ;)
You should interview Mix Engineer Jimmy Lovine on producing “Because the Night” by Patty Smith at the Record Plant. Best to you !!!
prefer softubes chandler stuff after days of head to head, just need the money, they really need to get a grip with the pricing, as a drawmer saturation hardware unit with multiband width wipes the floor with plugins