#Harrison mixbus 32c v7 review full#

soooooo what was meant to become a great fun morning piping this mix I'm working on from Logic into Mixbus turns into a bit of a feast of wrong. Certainly I have had bad experiences and not-so-good sound from software that is quite expensive. May be more of a labor of love and support for open source as much as anything. Ben Loftis from Harrison is listed as one of the Ardour developers. Not sure if they are really trying to make money from it, which is kind of a refreshing thing.

I think the reason for the low cost is that it is built on the open-source Ardour DAW, and they just ported the algo's from their digital consoles and changed up the mixer UI. The fast and easy workflow is probably just as good of a reason to use Mixbus as the sound. Better is a subjective thing, but I'll just say that they are on par with the best software I've used. The built in EQ's and compressors are great and extremely usable, especially for a fast workflow, but the excellent stuff is their proprietary plugin set. This in my experience is actually closer to what a good tape machine like a Studer does. If you push it harder then it starts to add more of a saturation effect. What it does unless you push it is limit inaudible transients to raise the entire signal, while remaining transparent. The tape sim is excellent, but it may be different than using tape sims that basically add harmonics. Yes, I know that in general all DAWs sum exactly the same. Not sure what they cooked into the summing algorithm to make it sound different from other DAWs, but it does.

#Harrison mixbus 32c v7 review full#

You'd probably want to use individual tracks, not stems, for the full effect.