You see, I'm in search for the sound, it's really all about the sound. Super efficient, unbelievable, well up to this point I was willing to leave protools for the availability to have this EQ on every channel. I have 32 channels open with little to no resources being hogged. Efficiency? it can't be possible that this killer EQ is available in line on every channel? Yes, this isn't a plug-in, it's an integrated part of each, and every channel of this Harrison beast. I apologize for all the excessive background stories on who I am, and what I do, but I believe you need to know the man before you believe his observation, and opinion of a new product. So much that if this was offered as a EQ plug-in just by itself, it would take this industry by storm. I own virtually every Eq plug UA, and Waves make, and they're great- but not close to the level of the Harrison 32C's EQ.
The onboard Harrison 32C Eq is the best digitally replicated EQ I have ever heard, and thats a big deal. This would be a good test because I had thousands of dollars of Universal Audios meticulously modeled plug-ins so I put Ua's 32C's EQ against The Harrison Mixbus 32C's modeled Eq. I was still into demo mode trying to ignore the bursts every 20 seconds or so, and I had to prove to myself if Harrison truly scoped out, and measured every component in the 32C's circuit as they claimed they did. I had to try out the demo, and I did, The Harrison Mixbus 32C was much more than a "new DAW"- it was the complete package. This also resonated with me because my very favorite plug in is the UA Harrison 32C Eq- my goto EQ for every channel until my UA Quad 8's tell me I'm done. The Harrison Mixbus 32C, what is this? I knew of the 32C from my analog console days. It's that tangible, simple, hands on, artform of mixing. Still not proficient and completely comfortable with this world of endless options, and pages in Protools- I knew that it was the only real "big time" DAW studio standard, but something was missing, a void. I spent all the rest of my studio years mixing in the box, and editing away. We loved the ability to not have to cut the tape for editing, or have a technician come in a spend 4 hours fixing the Otari remote- those days were now gone. Many years, and records past and we switched over to Protools. I will never forget the aroma of the electronics warming up, all of my senses were shocked to life-this is the real deal. The first studio record we did was recorded on a Harrison analog console- we were in awe of the site, and glory of this beast. Since then I have recorded, played on, and produced over 19 studio records. I have been involved in the recording industry since the age of 14 (1985), that's when my band Mad At The World was first signed in Orange county Ca. This sounds huge, warm, wide, and still clean.My name is Randy Rose from Rose Studios/Hindenburg Records. But when you tweak, even just a little, some pots here and there. Ps: no demo available for mixbus, but you won't regret this choice. There is a great quality in it, the stereo field is wide, and I easily got a great mixdown of tracks I could never achieve in Live for 2 reasons, a) when using live I can't resist and get back to re-arrange stuff, re-tweak stuff, etc., so it never ends, and b) all in mixbus is already here under your fingers (mouse) each channel has its compression, eq, and the busses are dope with their proprietary tape emulation algorythms, you don't browse all your vsts and live devices to fill empty channels. (search the gearslutz thread about harrison mixbus, it's discussed a lot). Go mixbus, it's a joy to use, and the sound is indeed great.
I ended like memes, enjoying the 2 softwares for the composition and mixing tasks separately, rendering my separate tracks in live, then importing them in mixbuss to get a quickly done proper and great sounding mixdown. that was a bit of pain in the ass, and CPU hog, and screen mess. I tried the audio streaming with jack, and it works fine, but a lots of patching, setting up the 2. Mixbus is a great cheap but quality virtual mixing console (and DAW, but this is ardour, not harrison)
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