Michelangelo EQ by Tone Projects: Full Master Class (ft. Chris Henderson!)

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📓 CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
09:00 Overview
03:14 Main UI Elements and Features
03:59 Aggression and Trim
12:11 In use: Aggression, Calibration, Trim
17:14 Low, Mid, High, Air
20:52 In use: High
22:20 In use: Mid
24:21 In use: Low
27:41 In use: Air
29:37 Advanced Controls: Crosstalk and Spread
32:54 Advanced Controls: Tube Comp, and Tube Blend
34:44 In use: Crosstalk, Spread, Tube Comp, Tube Blend
37:14 Improving on the original analog outboard version
38:11 Advanced Controls: Mid/Side and Dynamic Control
44:08 Advanced Controls: Extra bands, Low- and High-Pass
45:34 In use: Advanced Controls
50:37 Use-case scenario considerations
52:18 Bonus: How Chris' Presets are intended to be used
53:30 Conclusions
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[@patrickalphenaar]

Bought this EQ about 2 weeks ago and seriously it became my number one Color EQ and saturation plugin within few days and probably will be for long time! Its truly mind blowing that one plugin can separate all instruments from each other, add more depth and width in a incredible natural and musical way! It does sounds like a good piece of hardware. Its magic especially in “Pristine”. Well done Tone Projects and Chris! Great Vid! Thanks and Cheers

[@arizzoschettino]

I couldn't agree more and, in all honesty, I'm getting grumpier and grumpier towards plugins. I don't "need" the latest toys and when I'm composing and producing I'm so on the clock, with many retouches and revisions, that I almost cannot be bothered to change my autopilot mode. Which is not good, I realize that. Sometimes things like this one come out and it's worth taking 5 minutes to realize this can be amazing for our music. The Michelangelo EQ falls into this case.. but I'm also partial because I always have such a great time with Chris and Rune and I get along with how they think about music and code. I'm glad you liked the video!

[@conrow1157]

Big applause for this masterpiece of deep diving plug-in review

[@arizzoschettino]

Thanks for putting the accent on the resources we put together across two continents ;) I appreciate it.

[@hiddenmaterial]

Chris is a gem!!!

[@arizzoschettino]

Indeed! Such a blessing to have him talk about what he originally built in hardware!

[@jjones7837]

Thanks for this. Great work Chris. It's amazing.

[@arizzoschettino]

Thank you, glad you liked the video, thanks for watching.

[@tryingtotryistrying]

saving up for this

[@arizzoschettino]

Still to me one of the best, few plug-ins, that came out recently. Worth the wait, I hope you get your copy soon.

[@jvf6257]

After cv19 closed my mastering room and sold all the HW, was missing this unit so bad for my own projects, Tone and Chris’s done a great job, will be an stepped Ver lol, kidding love the way the unit was designed, Maybe the Pollock next.

[@arizzoschettino]

Totally agreed. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@jvf6257]

Just bought the Tone Projects entire Bundle are in an other league, got DMG, Softube, UAD, Toys etc the warmest and natural sound shock me, glad that saw your video just caught it, last day promo, Thx to you own you a beer@@arizzoschettino

[@arizzoschettino]

Many thanks, I'll hold on to that beer for the good times it will generate! If you want to support my music education project,, check out my Patreon as it's almost as good as booze. 😉 👉 Patreon.com/arizzoschettino I totally agree with you on Tone Project being "next gen". I basically use all of their plugins in my work!

[@saardean4481]

I just got this amazing plugin 1 day ago. My hat off to you. Now in the video you got me thinking. I don't know if its possible using the dropdown menu but is there a way to apply something like a SC filter to Aggression in order to let it leave the low end intact and only saturate the higher registers? If not this would be a great feature (for my taste at least)

[@arizzoschettino]

You are most welcome! I am glad you liked the video, it was such a blast running this with Chris (I have a "talk with" video withi him, from some months ago). You can achieve something close to what you want to do (but in my opinion a bit more organically than having a SC on it) by lowering the drive on the low band (in the advanced controls), up to all the way counter-clockwise. This will saturate the lows less, and in my tests I noticed that moving the frequency point of that band (even if you are not even using it) will also improve where the 'easier/desaturated low' center will be. Also moving the Mid frequency point can help. You can even take one of the extra bands in the far right of the advanced controls to point them dynamically into a low frequency are, and have it work dynamically to either boost or dip very slightly, depending on what you need to compensate with that de-saturation trick (IF you have to compensate anything, that is). It sounds super geeky and advanced, it's nothing genius but I hope it will help!

[@saardean4481]

@@arizzoschettino very elegant workaround! Will try it out. Thank you! By "moving the frequency point " you mean the switch 80-150hz , Or the Frequency on the left of the Driv e section in the advanced menu? Edit: Forget about it. Just arrived at minute 33 of the video where it's all about that . How impatient of me! :-)

[@arizzoschettino]

@@saardean4481 no problem, yes: we did talk specifically about that with Chris. By 'moving the frequency point', I meant the "Frequency" knob on the left of the "Drive" knob (I know you did find it but I am answering this in case someone from the future reads the comment, it might be useful to them!). Thanks again!

[@saardean4481]

@@arizzoschettino Thank you!

[@lumicstudio3525]

Since it's a real colour box (along with being an EQ), when using it in mastering session would you use it first to roughly sculp and form the mix with subtle saturation taming off the peaks and then do all the rest of mastering processing. Or you would use Michaelangelo later in the chain before main compression (but after all corrective moves)?

[@arizzoschettino]

That's an excellent question! Both approaches are valid, it has so many elements in it that - depending on what you want to use - it makes sense both ways. I have been writing a lot of music, whose mix bus has the Michelangelo on it, and in my case it is placed quite towards the end. I have recently started to use quite a lot of plug-ins on the mix bus and the order is a bit unique to me and my workflow, but I am sure if I moved the Michelangelo somewhere else I could still find settings that would make it worth having (albeit different from the ones I might dial in, in the previous position). It's so versatile and subtle (if you want it subtle) that I see no problems using it first, last or in the middle! Maybe it's more use-case scenario, if the song really needs a general tonic on it and a "statement" in terms of sound field and density, I'd go Michelangelo first. The only thing I might place before is something like Unisum, to get about half a dB of movement and let the Michelangelo crossfeed go all artistic on it.

[@pongmaster123]

is this a joke? i mean the testsound...willingly chose the least usable sound ever?

[@arizzoschettino]

Hi there! Thanks for watching 😅 despite you finding them the worst possible sounds, that's what I do, I tend to do it a lot! I appreciate you reaching out with a comment and surviving the experience, it's proof the Michelangelo really lives up to the most extreme of tests!

[@pongmaster123]

@@arizzoschettino hi, just take a fresh recording of acoustic drums without any pre-processing, maybe with a bassguitar in it. you will hear the effect of the plugin much much better.