Its simple, show me in congested mix and in solo how Vdelay is not sounding good...bmanic wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:40 pm It's not quite that simple. You need to test the delays in a congested mix. That's when you notice if something fits the mix or not. Having said that, the example in the above post does exactly what you just asked for, except there is only the dry and wet files, not a 3rd for comparison but you can just download the .wav and do it yourself.
For instance in the case of Valhalla reverbs (mainly room and vintage verb), they have the problem of quite easily congesting a busy mix. There will be a perceptual buildup of mid and low-mid frequencies whereas the exact opposite sometimes happens with for instance classic Lexicon algorithms.. they seem to instead phase cancel the mids and low-mids, thus actually alleviating problems in the mix instead of creating them. This is the very essence of "gelling with the mix" or not.
Again, lots of talk, like on gearslutz, but no evidence, no examples. When you present hardcore hardware fans to say which mix was made with hw and which with sw, they never give you an answer, but pop out in each thread praising how hw is superior. I see the same pattern here.