Frankie.T wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:25 pmThe reasons i used a so different values sometime is because it was the only way to achieve the samish curve. If some plugins are very similar when you move knobs, others react very differently.Zaphod (giancarlo) wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:48 pm
I saw in the video that the settings change quite a bit in the comparisons between one and the other (i.e., you don't give the same attenuation and boost), so I don't really understand the test.
For Purple you can also test other emulations that you will be more familiar with. and compare them with hardware that is very common in all studios.
I see also settings are COMPLETELY different for each device. In our case they are attenuating 5kHz, for other plugins they are attuating 10kHz sometimes. Also amounts are completely different. It is a very strange test
Anyway as i wrote in the previous post, i don't think there is anything wrong with Purple (more info in the previous post)
This is the setting to which purple was proposed.
I compared purple AA (a clone, bottom) with purple P1 (the real deal, top) and I see all hardware with those settings will have similar mids (we are subtracting 7dB at 2kHz, with a very wide bell... I would say that the mids with those settings can't be there.
It is interesting in the clone to see that the treble bell is less narrow.
I have seen the settings of the other plugins and it is normal to have midrange frequencies more present, in other cases. For example, with Tubetech's settings for purple AA (which has the same frequencies so it is easy to make a direct comparison) we have the second graph, with rather present mids and a rather light smile curve. I expect Softtube's plugin to make a curve similar to this, usually they are quite accurate.
In my opinion the test would make sense by trying to get close with the curves, OR by offering the same setting for everyone, otherwise a matter of personal taste in each person's use comes into play.