How a $299 Blue Box Humiliated a $5,000 Abbey Road EQ
8.3K views · Sep 26, 2026 · Science & Technology
Comments · 12
@leshaglory · 4 days ago
I have the original device, and the plug-in! They sound very close, but the iron device sounds bigger and richer!
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@nama_108 · 2 days ago
how much did you pay for the EQ you used on the voiceover in this video?
@johanneseberhard9726 · 2 days ago
I wonder how many hours that guy sat behind a mixing desk and really worked on music with real musicians ... no plug comes close in my world - sorry
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@Soso-km8er · 4 days ago (edited)
Analog fetches good money because it works extremely well. Most of the „good“ music has been transferred between so many tubes, transformers, tape, transistors, cables and inductors that it should sound bad. The opposite is true. Plugins on the other hand drop in price harder than broken Gucci sun glasses. There is nothing in it that is a secret anymore. <br><br>There were reasons for DAW-Plugins when DAWs were new. Buying any plugin beyond what Logic gives away for free means you don’t understand mixing and mastering.<br><br>Selling plugins is good - one time development cost, marketing cost, endless passive income. Buying plugins shows you have no clue what you are doing.
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@IgorKhainskyi · 4 days ago
Plugin on mixing, analog on mastering.
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@RichardBronson-l1y · 5 days ago
“This would explain why the Chandler Limited TG12345 manufacturing team felt the need to attach the Abbey Road name and reputation to its product in the first place, instead of letting its product’s sound quality speak for itself. Riding the coattails of another is almost always a recipe for failure.”
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@bluematrix7 · 4 days ago (edited)
This is al kind of worthless, as yes everything looks impressive from a technical standpoint and there Digital wins in most cases, and yes Digital is good, but our ears seems to prefer all the "flaws" and imperfections of Analog..... is all about EARS and feeling.
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@ernestomekam9402 · 4 days ago
These plugin company would stop at nothing to make real analog gears inferior to their plugin emulators 😂 it's funny cause the new age aspiring engineers will never get the chance to know what the real hardware unit sounds like .in my opinion that comparison is highly embarrassing hard ware always and will always win period.
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@BarneFred · 3 days ago
What a contrived load of rubbish. <br>Sounds like sometimes trying too hard at their first attempt at romanticizing hardware vs software. 🤮
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