Thank you Mike! Love your reviews and explanations!!!

Your plugins tutorials, theoretical aspects and practical applications are exquisite!!! Best on KZread. Please continue and revisit some older waves plugins and groups of selected plugins that work good together.

Great review. I love this plugin!

You are the BEST! at what you do man, thank you.

Good job. Thank you! I have the AR collection. I am starting to use some of the plug ins. The reviews are great as it gives ideas during non-production time.

Thank you Mike! Great video tutorial👌, I think you are one of the best on KZread.

Another great review. That 'duo' mode really opened the mix out.

The R124 adds a nice color and richness to the track you put it on fantastic piece of software. put if on my kick and drum set and instant magic. Great plugin Waves

My guy.... You have made me a fan of this compressor.. WOWWWWWW!!!!

Nice review Mike as usual.

Wow.. Again.. Amazing information.. So in depth.. Incredible sir.. This is FullSail.. lol.. Bump that. I am dedicating 4 hours to your channel tomorrow.. Fantastic..

I had a chance to use those Chandler compressors, before they were released on sale. An old school friend of mine works at Abbey Road and is pretty good friends with the owner. I think he may have been involved in the process, somewhere down the line. As I was more in the "composing/playing" mindset, I took the gear for granted, But he had a few different pieces of hardware that we used in recordings.

we was waiting bro. 👍🏾

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@kingech_B15

3 жыл бұрын

@@mixingwithmike 🍻

Michael "pump n breathe" White lmaoo

Great review! I will test this out! Question...did you get a chance to compare this to the “Royal Compressor” from United plugin? Apparently it’s also an emulation of the rs124.

Awesome thanks for the video 👍

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Hi Mike! Thank you for your channel. You give great info! Can somebody help me to know which program to use for streaming that only takes the screen. Thanks.

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

Check out OBS

@gnprice

2 жыл бұрын

@@mixingwithmike Hey Mike! Does OBS allow PCM audio capture while recording? I've been using Audio Hijack as a secondary app to record 24-bit PCM audio in parallel with Camtasia since it only records audio in AAC these days. Nice review as always! Picking up RS-124 on sale for $29 and I expect it to change my life :-)

Tested this against Aqua's Cream version on bass and preferred the Aqua by far. Warmer and more 3d sounding.

@wickstorm_records

3 жыл бұрын

”Warm and 3D” 🤦🏻

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

I like the Acoustica products in general for single tracks. I find that they fall apart a bit with complex program material though and the CPU hit makes them a bit too difficult use on larger sessions.

@willogburn6158

3 жыл бұрын

@@mixingwithmike I have found using the DAW Reaper helps significantly with the CPU hits and allows you to use many more instances of the Acoustica plugins, Aquas are most of my favorite plugins and I end up using them on everything, I would love to see you review more of them on your channel. Anyhow, thanks for your content, it is consistently top notch. Cheers!

@Zenvo-uu9tm

3 жыл бұрын

@@mixingwithmike hey Michael. It's Acustica. Acoustica is actually another developer in the field. So you don't get misunderstood by Acoustica guys😂 Thanks for in depth no nonsense videos like always. Regards

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

@@willogburn6158 DAW CPU efficiency always comes with a tradeoff. I cannot speak specifically for Reaper, but every other DAW I have used that runs more efficiently than Pro Tools with plugins sounds worse.

The sound reminds me a bit of the waves pie compressor

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it does have a solid state kind of sound to to it but the release curve is a bit different from the PYE compressor

I mean.. it’s iight 😌

Thanks Mike much appreciated! ,looks like another comp for the collection! I'm just intrigued almost every analog plugin emulations that comes out is referring to 60,70, hardware etc referencing pink Floyd Beatles etc is there any other music groups or genres that these plug companies can reference, feels like always the same pitch ,! just saying

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

The market is saturated for sure. Ultimately, the best selling point you can have is sound quality. That said, I like having a few versions of the same vintage emulation because they all sound different and that gives me more options in a mix.

@khalilroukoz

3 жыл бұрын

agreed! makes sense to have various comps different tones and character! still trying to figure out a go to chain and comps and every track is different! Thank you sir!

Hi, I just compared with my old 32 bit original RS124 plugin from Abbey Road. The attack is much better present with the first original RS124 plugin. Can you make a A/B?

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

Is that plugin even available anymore? I think they have turned everything over to Waves.

@reknefeu5955

3 жыл бұрын

No, they don't upgrade it to 64 bit because Peter Cobbin, the technical director from Abbey Road validated the plugin version as a perfect emulation and when Chandler released the Hardware Version they don't wanted a 64 bit upgrade to do not stop the selling of the hardware ;-) I still using it with 32 lives...Sorry for my English

@reknefeu5955

3 жыл бұрын

@@mixingwithmike I noticed something, the first plugin endorsed by Abbey Road and Peter Cobbin is not calibrated as the Waves Abbey Road. In the wave version the input is 5 db louder than the Abbey Road. For the same setting there is around +5 db Gain Reduction. After several test, the distortion and color is 99 % same, the 3D and the attack is different. The Attack is more transparent with the Abbey Road but the 3D is more pleasant with the wave

Hmm, this compressor does sound really nice, but is it just me or does it add a considerable amount of noise (white noise) if the Auto Hold function is switched off? I mean, maybe if Auto Hold is on, it reduces gain, but how does switching off Auto Hold add so much noise? Then again we're in the box, so it must be coming out of the plugin? At the same time there is no 'noise' button.. Also, is it possible this noise is added again if 'fuse' is on and thus the Auto Hold doesn't necessarely work??

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

I got a bit happy with the pumping and breathing of the compression. Also, the hold was not kicking on the vocal track and that was adding quite a bit of the noise you were hearing.

if you said it's good for the beatles, then it's good for rock and pop only

It has a huuuge boost on the top end, would this feature be some kind of scam? Or does the real unit has this “EQ” behavior too? Anyone who has tested the real one here? Thank you!

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

Just ran a series of frequency sweeps through this plugin in a variety of settings. The biggest difference I could find in the high frequency response was + one half a dB at 23K. Not so huge!

@Clarity-808

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t hear that. Maybe you were hearing the drive or the gain difference?

@SaturnVoyager11

3 жыл бұрын

@@mixingwithmike I´m using it for mastering and it´s giving me a huge boost in the most higher frequencies which I liked. So I run it through doctor plugin and yep, it has a boost of almost 14db starting from 5k and finishing on 22k where is the bell of the boost. and it takes a little from the bottom end. but definitely it´s a beautiful sounding plugin.

@mixingwithmike

3 жыл бұрын

@@SaturnVoyager11 How did you set up the plugin settings? You can't run a frequency sweep because you will get heavy compression on the lower frequencies and none on the higher frequencies. That would fully explain the curve you are seeing. Run pink noise into a frequency analyzer with ethe RS124 in between and compare in and out with any setting. You will see a minimal boost at best on the very top end of the spectrum.

@maxmileski1248

3 жыл бұрын

I a/b’d this against the Kush AR-1 and spent time getting each of them in the ball park and also detected a bit of hard or ‘s’ syllabic hype in the upper register with this Waves release. I was able to duplicate that syllabic hype with the AR-1 by pushing the ‘lifting/dark’ pot - obviously in the direction of the ‘lifting’. Otherwise, I felt they could both essentially cover the same ground and both offered that vintage vibe. I thought the Waves was pretty good and I know they aren’t 1 for 1 models but didn’t feel like I was missing too much without it since I have the AR-1 via subscription. They each have particular features that are unique beyond the the original unit(s). Mike, that was a killer track you used to demonstrate this plugin. Loved it.

Why are you always smacking the hell out of compressors?? Have you not heard of subtlety???

@BrofUJu

3 жыл бұрын

Please it's called spanking