Pulsar - Mu - Mixing With Mike Plugin of the Week

[@mixingwithmike]

For more info, here's the direct link to Pulsar Mu: bit.ly/2UALuRE

[@nolanmarshall3212]

Driving the input in parallel is magic

[@matt_nyc_audioengineer]

Fun fact (and very useful)! If you hold shift when adjusting the input it will automatically adjust the output accordingly.

[@__Stelios]

So helpful, thank you

[@eds4754]

bought this one around christmas, just couldn’t resist after a brief time using it. really has something that I hoped the UAD emulation would have (but lacked). Pulsar did an amazing job!

[@nigamshahmusic]

Great video, really helpful to see how you get different results. Just bought this plugin and I am excited to experiment with it.

[@nikola.kovacevic]

Another great walkthrough MIke, thanks! If you hold shift and move the dual input it will link and turn down the output. I wish more plugins had this!

[@mixingwithmike]

Great Tip!!! Not sure how I missed that one!

[@nikola.kovacevic]

@@mixingwithmike they added that option a few versions in I think. Great feature

[@orphic-trench]

The Pulsar Massive (Manley Massive Passive emulation) just came out! Looking forward to checking out what you think about it!!!

[@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579]

FWIW I myself am using the Pulsar Mu and Massive combo. I use them always on my Studio One 6 Livestream session effects chain. They're not at all surgical, and I don't care. I bought them to compress and EQ broadly and musically. They do that with excellence. I hope you're liking yours, because for me, it drastically changed my mix for the better.

[@PaulMDiaz]

You convinced me! Getting this after loving the 1178. Thanks Mike

[@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579]

I'm planning on getting this as a bundle with their Massive EQ. Both have a great sound. The GUI for these look nice as well.

[@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579]

Update, I have bought the Massive and Mu Bundle from Pulsar over their Black Friday sale. It came with the Relab LX480 Essentials reverb. $135 for all 3. And it's a great sounding trio in person.

[@jmorrisey79]

The Pulsar Echorec is pretty cool too. My apologies if you reviewed it already.

[@mixingwithmike]

Coming soon!

[@elgamerico]

Managed to pick this up on a sale and their other plugins too. Really good company doing some great plugins.Look forward to seeing what they have next.

[@SheldonTam]

Great plugin! On sale for $45 now!

[@Byronic19134]

My fav new compressor along with the Fuse Audio Lab offerings but this one despite being a Mu has a very modern sound, like i think of Mus of having a creamier sound but this is punchy and gritty and i love the GR grafh that's very Fab Filter esque.

[@tommymai3062]

How does it sound compare to the uad version ?

[@slamcrank]

Great video as always, Mike!!

[@mixingwithmike]

Cheers!

[@luroque]

Hi Michael ! Big fan of your videos. I remember trying a custom Vari-Mu (different tubes) during a recording session in a studio in Paris, just 1 or 2 db of gain reduction on the vocals got the sound so warm and beautiful, I really fell in love with this amazing piece of gear, did you feel this when you tried it on vocals with the plugin too ? Or it is transparent/colorless ? Best, Lucien

[@mixingwithmike]

I've never found any analog emulation to feel completely the same as the real gear. I don't think it's about the quality of the emulation but rather that everything else is analog around the hardware and everything ITB is digital. I still love this emulation and it's a valuable art of my work.

[@luroque]

@@mixingwithmike okay, makes sense, thank you very much for your feedback :) !

[@psysword]

My fav limiter on my mastering.

[@mixingwithmike]

Mine too!

[@Zenvo-uu9tm]

Favorite itb comp

[@mixingwithmike]

Rockin!

[@GuyTallo]

Sounds great. Nice demonstration & explanation.

[@mixingwithmike]

Cheers!

[@BigMuff75]

Finally a good native one.

[@mixingwithmike]

yes!

[@tobiasjone]

I thought the UAD one had a slightly weird release compared to the stock hardware unit. The Pulsar sounds pretty convincing to me.

[@psysword]

How does the external side chain work? I’m on a Mac and haven’t read the manual. Maybe through ableton.

[@mixingwithmike]

Click on the Ext switch in the lower left and assign a track to feed the S/C bus. Not sure how it's set up in Ableton. In pro Tools you select a bus and then assign a send from the trigger track to that same bus.

[@Am6-9]

I demoed it when it was released and what I didn’t like is that I needed an unusually hot signal or really crank the input and threshold to get some heavier gain reduction , say more than 3-4 dB according to the meter. Impossible to get it to 10db like in this video, which was a pity because that sounded ace on parallel drums. Maybe they changed that.

[@mixingwithmike]

The default setting has the input level all the way down, you can change this as store it as the default

[@nichttuntun3364]

Again a great indepths review/showcase-video from you - THX - as always I can draw something interserting out of your informations. :) For the plugin: I think the sidechain could go up higher then 200 hz and the drive is blurring things up too much. Funny, cause (at least pure without warming transformers and such) tubes should make things brighter and cleaner after all. All in all this seems to be a great plugin, like Pulsars other stuff. I was often one click before buying their stuff - but each and everytime the iLok-conditions kept me away. And of course there is Toni Frenzels Klanghelm MJUC, an amazing plugin compressor for almost no money and NO copy protection. So, sorry Pulsar :)

[@Am6-9]

nichttuntun this one is very different from mjuc, if I remember my demo time with it correctly. I don’t think you can replace one with the other. And ilok isn’t actually too bad imho once you look past all the forum hysteria and drama. I was all set against it, too, until I actually tried it and realized that it’s maybe not the best option, but also not the worst (migration to a new computer is a breeze compared to e.g. entering a serial in dozens of plugins). Klanghelm’s or hornet’s system is much better, though.

[@mixingwithmike]

I hear what you are saying about driving the input too hard but it settles into a nice place when you back it off a touch. I've never driven the real hardware this way so I can't say that there is a problem here with Pulsar's emulation

[@nichttuntun3364]

Thank you for sharing your opinions :)

[@user-hy4xz1qt9h]

are u entirely in the box mike?

[@mixingwithmike]

Yes! For now anyway. That's a long story I will tell sometime...

[@user-hy4xz1qt9h]

@@mixingwithmike is it a big no no for you to do a top 10 list mike?

[@papa.alfredo]

At 5 minutes talking I could not listen anymore, I can't understand these type of disturbing videos and people without noticing that what matter the most is sound example and showing the products to work as soon as possible, but no, there are people that love to talk like parrots, USELESS

[@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579]

😭

[@HOBBITSODYSSEY]

@@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579 you talk to much.

[@puresoundstudios]

He’s one of the best plugin reviewers out there. The detail he provided here was exactly what many of us would want.