Wurlitzer Blindfold Test - Real vs Plugins!

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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
» 0:00 What We Are Doing Today!
» 1:00 First Listen
» 2:08 First Thoughts
» 2:54 Playing Something Different
» 4:00 Oz's Thoughts
» 5:25 Hearing Them Again!
» 6:00 Chris Guesses the Brands!
» 6:33 Oz's Final Thoughts!
» 7:00 Revealing the Results!
» 8:00 Thanks For Watching!
» 8:33 Chris Plays Around With Each Sound

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[AlejandroMS]

The mighty Wurlitzer blows doors off the others. The warmth, the richness, the depth, it's like having a spinning Leslie without the extra cabinet.

[simoneh]

YES!!! More of these!!!! One with a Rhodes would be awesome.

[stevem-h]

Have to admit, I'm pleasantly surprised how well Scarbee acquits itself. I've used that for years. The Keyscape one doesnt surprise me as to how good it is, but the real thing is just bloody glorious.

[blackdownAV]

Oh baby the real deal… All day long. Especially when you feel it!

[peterkadarmusic]

This was great. Scarbee and Keyscape were the most impressive emulations. I'll join the chorus of comments wanting to see more of these. Rhodes and clavinet would each be a great start but some with analog synths vs emulations would be cool too.

[jonbirchartist]

The soft versions would be closer to the original with different eq settings. They appear to have been created to easier fit within a mix. They're all good, but within a mix it's probably the real one that would need more work done on it to find its space... unless of course it's the upfront, main sound in your track. Nice video.

[andrelindenau]

He really pushed the Scarbee, can sound much warmer. Best buy to me, using it since 2011

[TimMcGlynn]

Nothing beats the lushness of the real Wurlitzer, and the Keyscape was closest to it, but for whatever reason, I actually liked the Scarbee better than Keyscape.

[derekfernandez]

Wow amazing ears Chris! Well done! The NI Scarbee sounds pretty great! This 3:18 is just gorgeous Jack! 😍 I loved this blind comparison!

[jayrob]

The wurli 200a is my favourite sounding electric piano by far. I have a one but it takes so much maintenance to keep it in tune :(

[beat]

Very informative yet fun to watch. Thank you so much 💗

[WAGSUBE]

Great video! You should do another Wurly shootout with hardware: Kronos, Fantom, Montage/YC/CP, MPCKEY61

[floppydisk]

I think the midi keyboard is making the velocity too high, I know for a fact this happens with my keylab mk2 on the Arturia rhodes compared to a real Rhodes, just makes it go into that super brittle distorted sound

[airworthy]

Ngl, Keyscape has nailed the sound of the Wurlitzer, it really made my mind blow.

[JayTheLane]

I have the Scarbee Rhodes and it's great...

[UNAI_IKER_Music]

So good guys!!! These shoutouts are so useful, keep making them please!!

[furiobisotti]

Lovely test. Very useful. My personal comment: with that controller is nearly impossible to get a decent dynamic from the key as needed for an EP. It is very very soft

[FuncKeR]

The thing about devices like the Arturia, Lounge Lizard, and the new Audio Things Wurly, is that you have to really dig into the parameters on them when comparing it to any particular real Wurlitzer. They are physical modeled synths. Not sure what the Logic version is. And the sampled ones are a particular real Wurlitzer, just with canned noise and limited expressiveness.

It's kind of becoming one of my pet peeves when I see Rhodes or Wurly shootouts, and when the physical modeled ones get pulled up they are sitting there at default completely naked, un-tweaked, and un-processed. The people filming the content and doing the shootout just never seem to be aware of how these physical modeled offerings really work, and how powerful they become once you start adjusting the parameters like hammer hardness, pickup height, damper noise, etc. Some post processing like saturation and a good speaker IR really throws the physical modeled electric pianos into sounding super authentic. They take more tweaking, not as "out of the box preset ready/beginner/non engineer friendly, " but ultimately way more flexible, and lastly can be taken into straight up "sound design/synth" territory if desired, which is awesome.

I've pretty much been able to exactly replicate whatever Wurlitzer reference recording I hear using the physical modeled offerings I mentioned and some post processing (saturation and speaker/microphone IR) It's really impressive that they can go in so many directions once you really understand how to adjust their parameters accordingly. And lastly, unlike the sampled ones, they don't take up over a gigabyte of drive space and actually use way less CPU and memory than a sample player does. (Scarbee and Keyscape)

[DaraM]

Loved that shootout. How about best way to amp all this stuff?

[torbenanschau]

Tested my Kronos along it... would have been third after the Keyscape but ahead of the others, pretty impressed. Would like to hear how a Nord would have done.