KVR Audio

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:09 pm

Frankly.. I'm blown away by this! There's a tiny tiny difference in grainyness/highs/spatial, I think.. I may be affected by placebo but I feel the hardware is grainier than the plugin but we are talking about incredibly small differences at 100% wet source! EXTREMELY impressive A/B shootout.

Cheers!
bManic

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:14 pm

bmanic wrote:

Frankly.. I'm blown away by this! There's a tiny tiny difference in grainyness/highs/spatial, I think.. I may be affected by placebo but I feel the hardware is grainier than the plugin but we are talking about incredibly small differences at 100% wet source! EXTREMELY impressive A/B shootout.

Cheers!
bManic

Certainly sounds the same to me. I'd be interested to hear a test like this against NI's RC 48.

Cimbasso · Post by **Cimbasso** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:18 pm

bmanic wrote:

Frankly.. I'm blown away by this! There's a tiny tiny difference in grainyness/highs/spatial, I think.. I may be affected by placebo but I feel the hardware is grainier than the plugin but we are talking about incredibly small differences at 100% wet source! EXTREMELY impressive A/B shootout.

Cheers!
bManic

Aren't they offering a free license to anyone who can spot/prove any, even incredibly small difference like that one you've noticed? You just saved yourself $500 in that case.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:25 pm

Not really.. I'd have to do a real double blind test, setup by Martin. I'm 99.999% sure I'd fail it.

I'll gladly pay him for LX480. I love his dedication and hard work. The least I can do is to pay him for the work.. and I will at some point. Right now I'm a bit saturated with high quality reverb plugins. AriesVerb, ValhallaRoom, Lexicon LXP, Exponential audio Phoenixverb, EAReverb, Empty250 and Arts Acoustic verb make for a nice setup. I'm pretty much covered for a while. Someday I'll get it.. for sure.

Cheers!
bManic

Fred_Abstract · Post by **Fred_Abstract** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:15 pm

yes really impressing !

here some link Warp posted on gearslutz 100% wet

Where are the switch locations (if any)?

http://www.relab.dk/downloads/sound/AcGuitar.wav

http://www.relab.dk/downloads/sound/Drumbus.wav

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 12:51 pm

$500 is cheap if you love that sound! i been looking for a chamber verb. i still use impulses for that. the LX480 sounds good in the center an the empty250 on the sides. that's been a magic combo for me.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:28 pm

Have you tried exponential audio Phoenix? I think it does a pretty darn nice chamber.

Cheers!
bManic

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:50 am

i gave Phoenix a whirl last night it sounds good but doesn't get close to my putnam echo room impulses. i was tired when i gave it a shot i will try it again next weak when i get some horns in here.

SWAN808 · Post by **SWAN808** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:28 pm

yes its a good test. Best thing is to not look at the screen and not count the bars...I thought I heard more weight and bass in the Lexicon but after doing the test blind it was much more difficult...

kmonkey · Post by **kmonkey** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:32 pm

Echoes in the Attic wrote: Certainly sounds the same to me. I'd be interested to hear a test like this against NI's RC 48.

You don't have to wait. I tested both. It's a no contest really. RC 48 is TOTALY different sounding to LX480 Complete. Very nice but not the same at all. Entirely different reverb imho. But it is usable all the way.

FeelingMachine · Post by **FeelingMachine** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:58 pm

Quick question ; what are the differences between the lite and full versions ?

@midnight · Post by **@midnight** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:19 am

The lite only has a Random Hall algoriddum the full version has all the algoriddums.

FeelingMachine · Post by **FeelingMachine** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:23 pm

@midnight wrote:The lite only has a Random Hall algoriddum the full version has all the algoriddums.

Thank you midnight.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:26 pm

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Fred_Abstract · Post by **Fred_Abstract** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:28 pm

doubt the ni sound the same (but these are good too )and relab have more algos if i m right? so to me it can be a replacement.

the interface is perfectly fine once you have spend a bit of time using it...

Relab LX480 A/B test versus Lexicon 480L. Most impressive hardware vs plugin test ever? You bet!