LA2A SHOOTOUT RESULTS!

THE RESULTS ARE IN!!!

NOW, DON'T GO CHEATING AND COMMENTING ON THE ORIGINAL VIDEO AFTER WATCHING THIS...(WE CAN TELL)

[CaptainProton]

If us composers, producers and engineers can't hear the difference much then the public won't hear it.

[united]

I really like your sense of humor, I watch your videos with real interest, my suggestion for the next test, Mix Bus Compressors especially SSL TYPE... greetings from Poland ! :)

[Tha_Mecca]

I actually thought abt getting a KT2A but ended up getting the Lindell Lin 2A because of the T4 black lion opto cell.

[johnnyrenfield]

Great test this really shows the quality of not only plugins but the lesser priced klark units too 🤘

[marksaxon_plays]

This was a great video and I would love to see more comparisons. I did my own Neve preamp only solo bass gtr test and it was interesting to hear the subtle differences but in the context of the whole mix, the differences become less obvious. Point being plugins are valid tools and people don't need to spend tons of money to get that sound. The other thing is the concept of good music is more important than worrying about minuscule differences in audio plugins.

[juhakuvajainen]

This was so great. Thanks buddies! For some reason this ”different sounding” Softube plugin was the most appealing to me with the Bass (I am a bassist) and the real thing too harsh with the drs. 🙄 Absolutely no way to tell these consistently apart. Once again it is proved that the sound is really in your head and not in the equipment – as long as you can produce the imagined sound with the gear at your disposal whether it is software or a hardwired box. Great job! Cheers – Kippis!

[ytnsanw]

Best takeaway from this is: don't waste thousands of £/$ on hardware, that you will also need to rack up, provide clean AC power for, maintain and repair when it malfunctions, etc. I'll just split the difference and use the UA LA2A plugin (IK MM one is good too..).

[sebastianmirceabadiu]

I think the problem is, no one knows the original one...and nowadays, you can get a good sound out of anything, if you know how to use it

[DanielGuillaud]

thanks to you guys. well i learned. i am unable to recognize the real la2a :) that i like the soft tube and that i would not buy a real la2a but rather another kt-2a. the same exercise with eq 1073 would be fun.Merci a vous deux !

[vektacular]

They’re all great….i like the LA2A silver and original from UA and I love the Logic compressor….im assuming you’re talking about that blue compressor in Logic with different type of compressors in one?

[loveMusic]

I think the Logic comp should go native. VST3

[VinnieDangerous]

I used the Ik Multimedia & UAD LA2A emulations and they really are very similar. I just use whichever one I get to first in a session lol

[OLLiGoldeaux]

Don´t forget: outboard gear is great, but you have to have good cables, routing etc. to get the difference !

[wouterdesmedt]

Mixland and Eric Valentine just dropped their Fairchild plugin, which sounds really good in the audio demos. Might want to give it a try. And complain about the price.

[rossjohnmartin]

I think this shows what amazing cheap tools we have these days!

[peterwaterman]

I was so incandescent with rage the moment I realised neither 1 or 5 were ever the real LA-2A that, at that exact moment, all the spots on my back simultaneously emptied like some kind of great puss tsunami. Needless to say after a short time had passed, all of my skin had cleared up lovely. So I must give public thanks to Dan and Sean for giving me such a good emptying. I'll be sleeping on my front no more!

In all seriousness, I'm just glad that my majority favourite (alongside the stock Logic plugin which I've never used) was an actual piece of hardware. Thank goodness for that. Dignity saved....

[johnellers]

Yank you for this experience. Very interresting!

[vitmedia]

I have to be honest (at the risk of being called an uneducated pleb) but I could barely discern any difference (in the mix) and none of them stood out as significantly better than the others. I use a KT-2A (as well as the UAD LA-2A plugins) and I don't think many people who listen to Detronics' records (that's currently 4 Spotify listeners per month) have any idea what a compressor is, let alone whether it's an original or a cheap clone or a plugin. And they probably care even less! For me, this video was a really good affirmation of this, and justifies me being an utter miser when it comes to gear 🙂. Excellent content, gents. Keep it up. Pultec next? 1176?

[djvictornova]

Remember that your ears are more important then your eyes, Musically speaking 😁

[SConway-vx]

Great vid! I was listening on a headset at work so couldn't discern differences but what would be interesting to know - you said you 'dialed' them in by ear to sound as similar a possible. I'm wondering what the controls looked like when you were done? were they at pretty similar settings overall? Did one have a more granular, finer tuning to a setting while another was more of a brute? thanks, SC