Thanks for the note Thomas. We tend to do everything live with no editing, so things can jump around a bit. 😅

Yeah, it's a bit frustrating for an hour of total length vs just a few minutes of A/B examples, and un-annotated. He didn't let the A/B play past halfway through - twice in a row - so wondering why the verse was recorded... _twice(?)_ It could save a lot of people a lot of time to do a 15-20 minute edit with a few paragraphs of text and/or graphics to replace the ramble about signal path and the test-tones.

The Bus+ has a larger feature set, is more versatile, and can handle more genres. Is it worth upgrading over the Warm? That depends on you and how much use you would get over the extra features. If you mix a lot of different genres, I would say yes. If not, and the Warm is doing it’s job for you, I would save that money for other things.

in fact, I'm a professional sound engineer, so when I have clients, they often have a lot of different musical genres... so yes, it can be interesting to get on the bus+ because in fact, I finalize all my mixes with fusion and comp bus so far… but on some genres the comp bus goes moderately… so if the + bus brings more possibilities on different genres of music then I'm very interested. Otherwise, when I'm doing my own kind of music, the comp bus works pretty well because before I was using wave's ssl comp plug-in. I just wanted to upgrade to a hardware version.

​@@ironperezimorxrecords1208 the D-EQ alone is worth the ticket.

Have Bus+ plus Fusion on the 2Buss and Tegeler EQP1 following. More tweakability on the VCA compressor, with some colour as needed, with that lovely heft that a stunning Pultec clone delivers. Not expensive overall.

i have both and i use them in 2 different stages.....bus + with ssl fusion on 2 bus situation creme in mastering

I hope some of the info was helpful!

@@somni_studios absolutely

If you wanted to use The Bus+ for just its 4k mode, it probably wouldn’t be my first choice given the price. But it does have many tweak-able options and extra features, making it a powerhouse to work with all kinds of music. Just comes down to what you want out of a bus compressor

just with mid/side,and dual mono and stereo option option there's no way to comparate the 2....without mension the other features ...bus + win hands down.....probably you guys are missing something and don't understand what bus+ it is....warm audio is just a compressor that's it

I have heard that in all the comparison videos and just thought nothing of it until you said it !

It's true

And the 3rd place is the Seventy 80.

@@auntjenifer7774 very close aren't they? I have compared them on the same amp on the same room and was amazed at how close they were.

@@mike42356 in a way yes.

It can be a great placement to get all the drums for demos, or use it as a “color” mic in combination with other close mics.

You can certainly use it as a “color” mic! Distort it, compress the s*t out of it, throw it into a reverb pedal…. The uses are endless!

At school I liked using it almost like you would a parallel compression aux. I slammed it with the SSL bus comp and blended it it for body

You can definitely use a wider pattern. Just remember you will also pickup more cymbals as well. Its fun balance to get the sound you are looking for.

Give it try and see how much cow bell you get! You might need to push the mic in a little further toward the snare, or raise your cowbell up away from the mic a bit. In the end, if you have a fever, the only prescription is more cowbell!

then you'll have a free close mic cowbell too!

I mean it kinda already is since yk the white house has used them since the 60s

yesssss

The last example is just the sm57 in the "Wurst" position! No added eq or compression

@@somni_studios That was a truly fantastic sound! Thanks for the video!

Thank you kindly!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for listening