Vari Mu comps. which one ?

[ispot]

snatched pulsar mu because of this thread. it does that relaxed pillowy thing quite nice (m/s is cool too). personally i always found MJUC a bit grainy for 2bus

currently rotating between MDE stereo, fuse 25a and Mu on 2bus. one of those + a hint of cassiopeia hmm

[simon.a.billington]

I work with a mastering engineer who often enough uses Pulsar. Can't complain about the sonics, it can do some very nice things to a track.

[sqigls]

Pulsar Mu is my fave, Fuse VCL-515 is the same kinda vibe to me, just a little brighter, a bit less functionality

[TMaudio]

Kazrog True Dynamics gives a few interesting flavours; I also have IRON, a couple from Fuse Audio and the T-Racks Fairchild/Manley sims.

MJUC gets more use than the rest put together. Second place is Fuse VCL-864.

IRON gives me trouble with gainstaging; it is configured to do subtle compression with hot signals (for mastering). I find it has to be set quite extreme in order to get an obvious/exaggerated action on individual tracks at my usual levels. The stepped output gain makes volume matching difficult without an external tool such as Letimix gainmatch.

Exactly why I had to put Iron aside. I wish they would update it with variable output gain as I like how it sounds.

[sqigls]

oh yeah, the ITA LA1B is a vari-mu too. That's smashing that thing, the Kazrog True Dynamics LA1B is my fave actually factually. Pretty simple to use that one. Gives helicopter basses some serious thump. Tightens everything up.