Everything sounds BETTER: The Master Bus Transformer from Rupert Neve Designs

[@DaversTravels]

Just bought one last week. It is absolutely delightful! This is a fantastic review, Dale!! Thanks for the extra content!

[@sxproaudio]

Appreciate the kind words! Enjoy your MBT! 🔥

[@studioneo986]

Another excellent video Dale. MBT is a winner for sure.

[@sxproaudio]

Agreed! Thanks for the kind words too!

[@Orge77]

Nice demo of what this unit can do. I agree with all the points here and have found it to be a very intuitive bit of hardware for sweetening a mix or stems. I had the fusion beforehand and, whilst the fusion is great value for money, this is a noticeable upgrade and basically made the ssl redundant in my setup.

[@sxproaudio]

Great comment! Thanks for watching!

[@braxal6983]

Nice video. I wish you give that poor SSL Bus + some love in the video.

[@sxproaudio]

This was a video made to specifically discuss the MBT - i'm sure the Bus+ will find plenty of love when we come to make a video for it!

[@braxal6983]

@@sxproaudio Awesome!!!

[@vasili.8267]

The best toy for snobs)))

[@Foundry-TV]

Definitely in the basket as soon as I have the £££"s :)

[@hafimula]

I use the plugin from Kiive Audio and that’ll do! I’m sure the box is fantastic in person though.

[@The-Skyking]

Thats the kind of width I was expecting when I started summing. :(

[@sxproaudio]

@@The-Skyking Summing does veeeery little; the MBT is the kind of product most people should be buying instead when they want warmth, saturation, width etc. Just the act of summing audio down to two channels itself doesn’t really do anything of note to the sound.

[@ainnelrosirrosias3338]

The white harmonics knob, is it like a mix knob for the harmonics generated by the red and blue? Or is it a seperate stage? The way i understood is that its parralel saturation and you use the white harmonics to add more or less of it. Is this correct? Also are the REd and Blue parralel of does blue feed into blue? thanks in advance

[@sxproaudio]

It's a seperate stage. It's actually in series and comes after the red/blue silk stage in the signal flow. It's not a parallel blend and is used to further enhance the harmonic content of the audio on top of what the red/blue is already doing. As it comes after the red/blue silk stage, the harmonics generated are affected by how you use the red/blue silk . To ensure I answered your question clearly, I just went to the studio to do some comparisons, and this is really interesting: The Harmonic control does a fair amount of noticeable distortion/saturation, especially to mid-range frequencies and to instruments that already have a good level of harmonic content. The Silk red/blue almost function like super-smooth EQ shelves, boosting the high and low areas respectively not with gain, but harmonic content. In short, the silk is like smooth saturation, and the HARMONIC control is a little more crunchy, almost compression-like at times, it certainly smooths out transients. I hope this answers your excellent question!

[@ainnelrosirrosias3338]

@@sxproaudio Thanks for your detailed reply. It helped alot. I also saw u on Pauls podcast, great stuff and thanks again :)

[@CHILE_TZ]

blue/silk add harmonics at their range. White knob (harmonics) give amount of what you already chose before (how much red ,and how much blue). He amplify them