32C Channel Plugin

[madmaxmiller]

Final post in this series of experiments:

To eliminate the stochastic phase shifting (or whatever it is, I have emailed Harrison about it) in the input stage of Mixbus32C I fed both signals into Mixbus: the original signal of the noise generator and the signal from the AVA32C channel in Carla and I summed them in Mixbus32C's master. Both again at -6 dB which makes a sum of -3 dB unflipped. Flipping one channel nulled as expected.

Experiment: set a frequency gain in AVA and try to match it in MB32C using ONLY the SAME two DIALS.

I don't have time for screenshots etc today, but the findings are:
- it's rarely completely nulling
- it's possible to get very close using only the same two dials
- using more than the two doesn't improve the result, it makes it worse (more difference)
- with both mids at a positive/negative gain and high and low at shelves or bells with +/- gains it was always possible to closely match both curves with a rest noise (difference) between -50 and -40 db
- the frequency/gain readings in both EQs were slightly different, so you can't set one to certain values and replicate the result in the other by setting these same values

Conclusion:
It was always admitted by Harrison that the numeric values are not exact (can't be). Debates at this topic are in the forum.
It was always possible to match settings closely (difference for the respective frequencies in the -50 to -40 dB area) using only the same corresponding dials. Perhaps even better, I did these tests very quickly.
Therefore the characteristics of both EQs are the same.
So I believe it can be said that the modelling is the same. The fact that it not completely nulled in all settings (although in some, down to -120 db) could very well point to the gain bug and the noise floor bug Ben mentioned, we have to wait.

Anyway, I hope some of you enjoyed the nerdy stuff, see you next time.

Cheers,
MMM