PURE BLACK MAGIC - SPL BiG 🤯

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[dylanhughes]

Often under-looked but the hand movements on this A/B are excellent, so many people flick switches and turn knobs and block the picture or your not sure what's happening as they jump around from knob to knob, this is super clear along with no speaking between A and B and on a loop so its consistent. Super duper.

[namelesstherebel]

The lack of phase issues with this makes this literally the best widening tool on the market. It sounds so good I'm having a hard time believing what I'm hearing.

[LarryLobo]

It’s THAT sound! Wow! I bet this little magic box will change how the world perceives stereo sound. Thanks Colt! I can’t wait to watch my clients jumping around!

[timm]

This would be a great addition to my workflow, now that I have heard what is happening. To me this sounded as if you were moving the placement of the instruments forward and back. I really didn't seem to hear any degradation of the instruments. This sounds fantastic. Thanks Colt.

[Marines]

Finally an actual review on this unit, I’ve been waiting for someone to give this an extensive rundown. Thanks

[ALLGOOD_MUSIC]

This is absolutely mind bending how good that thing sounds! It makes the mix sound so clean and polished and powerful wow. Thanks for this video. Amazing.

[Ryan_Poff]

It's crazy how the big knob "seems" to add so much gain to the stereo signal, but in mono you can see it's not adding any. It sounds really good. Amazing technology at work.

[officialryanprice]

Just watched this again with a different set of headphones and this thing is WILD!

[mikeandersonwa]

I honestly love how real and authentic you are with these reviews. So many people pretend to know every technical detail about the device and it just makes me dizzy. I love how you use real terms to describe what the device does.

[DommoDommo]

Even on my laptop I could hear a difference. The mix REALLY opened the hell up.

[joesalyers]

It's an M/S processor using allpass filters. Which is very cool because there are very few allpass filters in the hardware world. This would be great for a mastering desk that uses an all analog workflow. Rupert Neve built a mastering desk called the Masterpiece for a company called Legendary Audio that had a very similar tool using allpass filtering. Sadly that it is no longer in production and fetches upwards of $12, 000 when they come up on the used market. But congrats to SPL for making a great tool like the SPL BiG!! Now I have to buy one COLT Thanks for demoing it.

[labarbadeoro]

Hey Colt… I was listening to this in the car and I could feel the Stage difference better… it might be cause of the extra speakers. What I kinda feel it does is give enphasis to the Mids or Sides… Anyways GREAT piece of gear. Thanks for your vids man. You give us great value with your knowledge. Blessings

[thoughtseyemanifestmusic]

This is a GREAT demo video. Literally what I needed. I’m in on this 500 unit. Thank you!

[launchpadmcquack]

I remember seeing a meme involving an artist asking for a demo to sound bigger, and the engineer turning up the "Bigness" knob.

And now it's real...

[themotownboy]

There is some phase shifting going on when it is engaged. It is heard in the mids when it is dialed in at the higher values. I believe that this box is able to sense a mono input and ignore processing when it does. That is not very hard with today’s technology. For me to test the mono compatibility, I would have to test it with music that I know very well. That said, the stereo widening result does sound very pleasing.

[TheBigBird]

I've been interested in this unit for a while, and this demo excellently displays what it's capable of! I restore/master quite a bit of vintage tape recordings, and often reach for stereo imaging tools. This would absolutely make it into my daily work flow. Thanks Colt and SPL!

Edit: I'd like to add, the mono compatability of this unit is a game changer!

[ingver]

My SPL Big just arrived and I was a little bit nervous regarding phase issues the might come to the fore as we know that stereo imaging plugins normally create problems. This is a truly awesome module - it doesn't introduce any correlation problems in the mixes (I measured it with the voxengo plugin - no negative correlations at all). It sounds great and I am very happy that I got it!

[audiodude]

Wow what a difference! I was just watching this on my phone and could hear the clarity of the mix just open up. Way to go SPL! Thank you for sharing this man

Okay, so....taking a guess. The big knob just adds side (as in mid/side). It would be cooler if it balanced between them rather than just adding sides. The range knob sounds like it could be a tilt eq, also just on the sides. Stage did work for me, and I think it's probably something like an all-pass filter trick that subtly delays either mid or side so that the wider spatial sound arrives at the listener a little early/late compared to the original. You won't hear it correctly unless your speakers/room/etc setup are damn near perfect and you're pretty close to the sweet spot. Or on good headphones/IEMs with a good HRTF crossfeed. All of those effects completely disappear in mono. The bass switch is the one that confuses me. And the YT app won't let me go back to the video while I'm writing a comment. There also wasn't a huge amount of low bass in that track to begin with and a lot of it was low end from panned instruments. So...wilder guess...it could just be a fixed elliptical filter. Maybe it depends slightly on the range knob.

If I'm even half right, you can do all of that with plugins, just not really a single plugin. IDK. Maybe pro-q3 does all-pass filters too. It does almost everything else. I'm not aware of an elliptical filter plugin that sounds like that. Basslane Pro actually does that particular job even better though...again, if I'm right about it.

[julini]

It’s amazing how dull the mix sounds when he bypasses it. I thought the mix sounded great already, but once you hear the AB there’s no going back!! This is an awesome piece of gear!