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The buss and says he has 2, so that when the one dies 'and it does' he has a replacement. But he also says it blows away the GML. Gear Addict Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 483 🎧 10 years I always thought the GML sounded better going to tape. Digital seems to bring out the worst in it... Which isn't so bad!But mine gets used for surgery more than sonic bliss.I have 1084s, Helios modules and an old quad eight graphic as well and they ALL sound more musical to me than the GML... But the GML can do things NONE of them can. Quote: Originally Posted by GRUNTBOY ➡️ Inherent to some fundamental design differences in the GML, it will never stack to the reference standard grade which is a Sontec.... and about those claims that the Sontec is not reliable... they're simply not founded.... unless a person is going to tie it to the back of their VW and drag it around the Church of Scientology parking lot... who also happen to be the actual makers of GML Unit to unit they can range from very solid to very flakey (specially the new ones). I'd buy vintage Sontec and keep in the 4XX series. Quote: Originally Posted by James Lugo ➡️ In the new Joe Barresi mixing video, he uses a Sontec on the buss and says he has 2, so that when the one dies 'and it does' he has a replacement. But he also says it blows away the GML. I wouldn't say a Sontec blows away a GML at all. Maybe he preferred it over the GML, but these sound wise are very much in the same class. Burgess and George were partners years agoand both lay claim to the invention of parametric eq.IMO/E they both are very good in their own right.A Sontec 250 will not recall like a GML 9500and a GML 8200 will not recall like a Sontec 462but if you are putting a 4XX vs. 9500 or a 8200 vs. 250 it comes down to preference. Gear Maniac Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 169 🎧 15 years Quote: Originally Posted by James Lugo ➡️ In the new Joe Barresi mixing video, he uses a Sontec on the buss and says he has 2, so that when the one dies 'and it does' he has a replacement. But he also says it blows away the GML. Because Sontec have one knob per functionEnglish isn't my native language but I didn't understand at any moment Joe commented on the Sontec vs GML sound wise... Maybe I misunderstood something...Btw I haven't any experience with the Sontec but I have with the 8200 so I can Gear Nut Joined: May 2005 Posts: 125 🎧 15 years GML 8200 vs. Sontec MEP-250ex I found an old thread about these two, but it refers to old Sontec. How the new one compares with GML, why such a big difference in prices?Thanks member no 666 Joined: Jun 2002 🎧 20 years Because the GML is built like a tank... its reliable, its solid, and on the rare occasion it might break [which I've never seen in 30 years of the unit's existence... but I'm sure some have at some time] there is the ability to repair it.I haven't been able to get a return phone call from Burgess [builder of Sontec] in close to two decades... and Sontec stuff breaks more than it works [kinda like a 1970's "Jaguar"].Its worth paying double plus for the reliability alone... couple that with the GML sounding better and you have ample reason for the price discrepancy.Peace Registered User Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 790 🎧 10 years Couldn't agree more with Fletcher. Based upon personal experience. Registered User Joined: May 2004 Posts: 936 🎧 20 years I'm curious. When you say the Sontec MEP 250, is this in the same family as the original ITI MEP230?thanks,David member no 666 Joined: Jun 2002 🎧 20 years Sure... its a 3rd cousin on the "uncle daddy" side. Gear Nut Joined: May 2005 Posts: 125 🎧 15 years Fletcher, thanks a lot. I was just wondering whether the GML is too expensive or Sontec too cheap (regarding its reputation and same or similar concept).I have GML and love it, it looks like I'll never have Sontec... Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2007 🎧 15 years I bought a used GML 8200 and it died... I sent it for repair and that would have been more expensive than buying a new one :-(It had a solid sound. Before I buy a new one I want to look into alternative apples. Gear Nut Joined: May 2005 Posts: 125 🎧 15 years And soundwise? How they compare? Registered User Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 15 🎧 15 years Quote: Originally Posted by Ognjan ➡️ And soundwise? How they compare? Inherent to some fundamental design differences in the GML, it will never stack to the reference standard grade which is a Sontec.... and about those claims that the Sontec is not reliable... they're simply not founded.... unless a person is going to tie it to the back of their VW and drag it around the Church of Scientology parking lot... who also happen to be the actual makers of GML Moderator Joined: May 2004 Posts: 8,108 🎧 20 years In the new Joe Barresi mixing video, he uses a Sontec on

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Sightings of Burgess ‘Mr Sontec’ Macneal are rare, and interviews even rarer. So lovers of fine audio design settle back, pour yourself a glass of something short and smooth… and enjoy. Sprinkled in between the big names of the audio industry at last year’s AES trade conference were countless boutique manufacturers offering everything from ‘better than original’ U47 replicas to 500-series rack module EQs. There were even re-issues of esoteric ’70s keyboards replete with their associated snarls of patch cords… all who saw were amazed! There was also a Mellotron on show, but no-one responsible for it wanted to tell you who made the tapes… oh no, that was far too big a secret to divulge… national security would have been compromised.Amongst this fever pitch of ‘re-issued classics’ was an impressive white EQ ‘replicating’ the now almost legendary, nay mythical, Sontec equaliser. Now the Sontec was the stereo EQ that started our whole love affair with fully-parametric equalisation back in the early ’70s, and replicating it seemed mildly scandalous, I thought. Having said that, if it was any good I could imagine it might prove quite popular provided it didn’t cost anything like the sums of money that currently change hands when a Sontec comes up for sale. But surely a faithful reissue would be impossible to make, regardless. The construction of an original Sontec EQ is a marvellous thing; dialling in an EQ setting on one of these babies is like cracking a safe. After nuclear war the three things left standing will surely be my old Studer, the Sontec EQ and Uluru. Anyone who owns an original (and there are a small handful of lucky individuals in Australia who do) swears by them. They’re like the EQ equivalent of a Neve BCM10 – at parties, to say you own a Sontec is to immediately draw a crowd… or clear the room, I’m not sure which.On the so-called ‘Sontec’ stand was an old gentleman who appeared to know a thing or two about it, and as I wandered past he was busily showing some eager customers the various control knobs and switches. They seemed impressed. But I kept walking; I’d seen enough replicas for one day and my feet were killing me. So I wandered around the corner and sat down on Joe Malone’s stand for a breather. No sooner had I alighted on his couch than Joe was at me: “You’ve just gotta go over to the ITI stand and meet Burgess Macneal, He’s a total legend.”“Who?” I responded.“Burgess Macneal… Mr Sontec!” said Joe, looking both excited and stunned that I didn’t know the name.“Really, I just assumed the EQ I just saw was a re-issued copy.”“No, no, this is the real deal!”So, with renewed enthusiasm, I went back over to Burgess’s stand, introduced myself and asked him if he might like to have a chat about the history of Sontec, and the bona fides of the ‘replica’ now turned ‘new original’ sitting in front of me.“Why sure,. Sontec instruments are guaranteed to be free of defects regarding materials and workmanship. Any Sontec instrument that is determined to be defective willbe replaced or repaired at our Pemco Incorporated is an authorized distributor for select Sontec Instruments. Pemco sells Sontec on Ebay Sontec on Ebay. Contact Pemco Incorporated. Go to Contact

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Changer" after all? nothing is, IMO.Even the real Sontec in the hands of a moron is worthless. +1 pretty hard to make a sontec sound bad when just turning it on makes it better. Gear Addict Joined: Jul 2010 🎧 10 years Quote: Originally Posted by MakeBelieve ➡️ +1 pretty hard to make a sontec sound bad when just turning it on makes it better. never underestimate the power of stupid people I've seen (and I'm sure many others too) studios packed with $$$ worth of gear producing mixes that made you cringe and others, with very limited budgets, really great ones. talent is everything. Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2018 Posts: 2,522 🎧 5 years Quote: Originally Posted by mastervargas ➡️ What is a "game changer" after all? nothing is, IMO.Even the real Sontec in the hands of a moron is worthless. completely, the only "gamechangers" iv'e encountered have been few and far between.When I think about it, the only ones that really come to mind are:AutotuneSootheGullfossEach of those spawned an entire new category of processing tools Gear Guru Joined: Oct 2006 🎧 15 years Quote: Originally Posted by motomotomoto ➡️ completely, the only "gamechangers" iv'e encountered have been few and far between.When I think about it, the only ones that really come to mind are:AutotuneSootheGullfossEach of those spawned an entire new category of processing tools ....and they aII changed the game towards even more 'un-wrong' records. A sad direction, but hey. Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 5,138 🎧 15 years Like I alluded to earlier, there is something really interesting going on in this plugin, something PD doesn't have the tools to measure. You can discover those oddities by severely overdriving the plugin (hit it with more than 24dBFS levels) but BE WARNED, it gets super loud and supremely weird, even if you compensate -24dB at the output/master. Make sure you set a limiter on the master before exploring the unknown areas of weirdness.No other plugin has ever had this kind of oddity when overdriven. I've never heard anything quite like it and I suspect it really does reveal some of the secret sauce going on. It's some sort of dynamic stuff happening per sample/per audio chunk or something.Here is an audio example of this in action. NOTE that I have Pro-L 2 with the 'Safe' algorithm inserted in this example (that algorithm produces minimal distortion and never clips)! These are NOT the results you get on your own without using a limiter! The Sontec plugin goes extremely weird and EXTREMELY loud (more than +60dBFS!!) when it starts distorting.I find it refreshingly weird and strange behavior. Haven't come across anything that behaves in this way. Most plugins have some kind of internal clipping point where it all just turns to mush. Here you can still sort of make out the dynamics of the track and the movement in a very odd way.WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME WITHOUT A LIMITER ON THE MASTER OUT.I start Is still exhibiting his wares at the AES (as is George Massenburg). From what little I knew, Sontec hadn’t existed as a company for decades and Burgess Macneal was almost mythical in his elusiveness – the pro audio equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster. So what does the Sontec EQ consist of nowadays… and I had to ask him where he’d been hiding all these years.BM: Well, I’ve always been here. And as for the Mastering Equaliser, it’s the same… well no… I’m half lying. Here’s the deal: The unit was originally designed to be semi modular. When the ITI unit was first built they were using a military connector. So when we did our first Sontec, we built exactly the same board, the same size, with the same connectors in the same locations, so we could just drop it in. That way people with ITI boards, could drop in Sontec boards and get back to operating again.These first Sontec boards are to a large extent very similar to the present ones, except for the tuning amplifiers. At that time we were using an IC, and it was the best IC available, but it was a long time ago – we made those boards up to around 1987. At that point I went into a complete redesign. Originally they were called MEP 250A, 250B, 250C and they were all – internally and structurally – very different to this. I went back and redesigned the thing to go into a discrete amplifier at the tuning stage. Which did two things: 1: it made it quieter in the EQ mode, and; 2: it gave it about 6dB more headroom in the equalisation circuits, which most people don’t notice unless they push the originals really hard. With the new amplifier I found by changing two resistors it became a lot more ‘crash’ resistant. That’s been the major change.AS: What do you mean by ‘crash’?BM: If you push an amplifier too hard, it clips. And unlike tubes, transistors clip hard and you’ve got all kinds of garbage coming out. So by moving the clipping level up 6dB, it became a lot harder to push the equaliser into overload when EQing. There have been minor changes in components too. The earlier modules were ‘potted’, whereas the later versions – from 1988 onwards – have little plug-in boards, no potting, and they work fine.AS: So the switching on these new ones is all ‘original’?BM: The switches that ITI used, and the people that made them, went out of production long ago. We subsequently found a good substitute, after a long time searching, and we used them for about eight years. But then I grew unhappy with them after reports of noise and people having to clean them started filtering in. I inquired about repairs with the supply company, only to discover that they’d been bought by somebody bigger, and they, in turn, by somebody bigger still. From there someone had decided that these were military grade

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And you could only buy a thousand at a time, at some ridiculous price, and we said ‘that’s enough of that’.I eventually discovered Shallco and told them what I wanted. Initially they said they couldn’t do it, but after looking through their catalogue and saying, ‘couldn’t you take one side of this switch and one side of this other switch and put it with this body?’ they said, ‘I guess we could try it’. After a few reworks I still needed the positive feel, but without the ‘click’. They said, ‘we already make a switch like that!’. The new one works like a champ. IN & OUT OF PRODUCTION?AS: One thing that confuses me about all this Burgess is… has Sontec always been in production?BM: Yes. With the Sontec we’ve been in continuous production since the spring of ’75. There was a period in the late ’70s and early ’80s when digital equalisers first appeared and business for analogue mastering equalisers disappeared. But eventually it went crazy again after the people that bought digital EQs started to revert back to analogue. The Sontec equaliser hasn’t changed much at all in that time; people’s perceptions have just swung back. You don’t want to fool around with a unit that does exactly what people expect it to do.AS: Well especially now that they’ve become a classic. People are more concerned with what hasn’t change than what has.BM: Well, that’s 100% true, but making them the same is now almost impossible because you can’t get parts. The transistor industry, for instance, stopped making some of the products 15 years ago. Trying to get those transistors sourced is a major headache. And we’ve even gone to the extent of having one transistor custom made for us.Most of the Sontec equalisers I make are now 9dB models [boost and cut] and that’s a result of the Japanese wanting 6dB, and this being a compromise. So, effectively, we’re a large shop. I make everything modularly, and if you want a 9dB that does this, I take those switches, this front panel, and those boards, plug it all together in the chassis and voila!AS: So, you’ve basically got Sontec building blocks that piece together.BM: Exactly. Modularity has its plusses.THE HOME OF SONTECAS: Do you still do all this in Baltimore?BM: We don’t do any of this in Baltimore. My wife and I had wanted to move out of Baltimore for quite a while, so we eventually found what I call ‘Little Italy’ – a rural county in Virginia with a lot of farming, basic manufacturing… and very nice people. Pearisburg is the name of the town – a beautiful place with a population of about 2500, where half the county is national forest, filled with deer and bear and trout streams. When we first discovered it, the only trouble was it had no commercial rental property to speak of.But then one fateful day we had a meeting with a local real estate agent at his home, where,

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Quote: Originally Posted by Karloff70 ➡️ What, the entire bundIe? That's amazing! Am about to swap my Iio-8 2D for a 3D one and Iooking forward to these goodies a Iot!!! Yep, the whole heap o' good math. Gear Addict Joined: Oct 2022 Posts: 385 Quote: Originally Posted by MakeBelieve ➡️ We actually copied the nomenclature down to the T, thats how it is on the hardware. My bad, didn't realize that it was also like this on the hardware. Apologies. Make Believe Studios Joined: Aug 2021 Posts: 658 Quote: Originally Posted by loji ➡️ the MH Sontec is very very good... does the same tricks as the real hardware.I've been lucky enough to own or use about 6x different 430/432 series Sontecs over the years Scarlet is poor (IMO) technically there is ripple in the response at 44.1, making it not match the hardware. It's only close running at 96k. . . it might sound good subjectively on some program material , but it's not what a Sontec sounds like. . . plus its bugs, chirps, and CPU consumption issuesIK is better, the curves match the hardware correctly, but the hardware sounds more open. IK sounds a bit cleaner than the hardware in my experience .. which can sometimes be a benefit. the MH Sontec (IMO) nails what the hardware does ... I don't like the sound with everything set flat, and the tone can change in non intuitive ways .. ie: flip the low shelf from 50 to 100, you get a different tone even set at 0dB. (same trick gets used on the hardware to make choruses sound Bigger, etc...) There is a reason that this version is the only one Burgess himself has ever collaborated or approved. hi Loji can we use this in a quote thank you. Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,967 🎧 20 years Tricks ? Maybe some presets would be fun for people Unfamiliar with this beast of an eq and what tricks it has up its sleeve. Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2018 🎧 5 years Quote: Originally Posted by MakeBelieve ➡️ Check your emails! Its christmas! You crazy freaks! Yes you, MakeBelieve and Metric Halo!❤️ Make Believe Studios Joined: Aug 2021 Posts: 658 Quote: Originally Posted by shahstlz ➡️ You crazy freaks! Yes you, MakeBelieve and Metric Halo!❤️ I am stoked to hear that you’re loving em! Gear Head Joined: May 2022 Posts: 60 Got back to the US and setup some projects through the MiO console -using the new limiter on parallel channels, Sontec here and there, etc - sounds amazing. Becoming less and less enamored with plugins over time, but can see these getting use for years, much like CS3. Gear Maniac Joined: Jul 2005 🎧 15 years Wow!! Really solid mid range equalizer , very smooth sound!!!. i must to spent more time trying it, but i have to say it's really good.Pd how do i unlink the channels? Last edited by OberHeim-Kenobi; 3rd November. Sontec instruments are guaranteed to be free of defects regarding materials and workmanship. Any Sontec instrument that is determined to be defective willbe replaced or repaired at our Pemco Incorporated is an authorized distributor for select Sontec Instruments. Pemco sells Sontec on Ebay Sontec on Ebay. Contact Pemco Incorporated. Go to Contact

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2022 at 03:26 AM.. Gear Addict Joined: Jul 2010 🎧 10 years Quote: Originally Posted by MakeBelieve ➡️ We actually copied the nomenclature down to the T, thats how it is on the hardware. Now, this kind of attention to detail I like! ) Make Believe Studios Joined: Aug 2021 Posts: 658 Quote: Originally Posted by OberHeim-Kenobi ➡️ Wow!! Really solid mid range equalizer , very smooth sound!!!. i have spent more time trying it, but i have to say it's really good.Pd how do i unlink the channels? You can right click the sontec logo and click unlink! Gear Maniac Joined: May 2012 Posts: 265 🎧 10 years Don't get stucked up, choose one of the 1000x more alternatives for Windows than there is for Mac. Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2012 🎧 10 years Quote: Originally Posted by Jantex ➡️ Wow, amazing. I am surprised, I always picked them apart, bit was 100% that it is just the other way around, because this is the type of sheen that Sontec makes so effortlessly. But anyway, if I was making my eq decision, I would strive more to sound like A. And on the other hand, Crave Eq has been my favorite EQ for a few years now ������ Man , you praised this sontec version as a phenomenal one of a kind breakthrough of the decade in the plugin world , but u picked Crave in blind A/B , however , back in a Noiseash thread , you bashed the hell out of their neve version as being nowhere close to where it suppose to be or being even remotely close to a hardware behaviorWords spoken with utmost confidence...Yet, u picked the Noiseash file as ur favorite in a blind shootout that included an actual hardware unit too...Dude , i just don't get u Peace Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,797 🎧 15 years Quote: Originally Posted by Digital Crush ➡️ Man , you praised this sontec version as a phenomenal one of a kind breakthrough of the decade in the plugin world , but u picked Crave in blind A/B , however , back in a Noiseash thread , you bashed the hell out of their neve version as being nowhere close to where it suppose to be or being even remotely close to a hardware behaviorWords spoken with utmost confidence...Yet, u picked the Noiseash file as ur favorite in a blind shootout that included an actual hardware unit too...Dude , i just don't get u Peace You obviously do not understand. One thing is listening to the clips produced by others and totally another thing to actually use the tool and see how quick and how close you can arrive to your desired result. Saying I prefer someones clip A to B, doesn’t mean that one EQ is better. It just means that in my opinion he did a better job with tool A. If I used both tools I would prefer the tool