Savant Audio vs. Relab - Quantec QRS - Mixing With Mike Plugin of the Week

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[joesalyers]

I still have a Quantec Yardstick in my rack and to this day it still has the most unique reverbs I have ever heard. Apparently Quantec didn't concentrate on room reflections like the other reverbs of the era, they measured the resonances of the rooms for their diffusion characteristics. The QRS algorithms are still in the later Yardstick models but the Yardstick's add things like higher sampling rates, multichannel and more DSP options like modulations and delay. These types of reverbs have always been hard to emulate on CPUs due to not using conventional ideas but now we can get them. THANKS MIKE you are the best!!!

[billyfileccia]

I have many Reverbs, just purchased Savant Quantec QRS and the tail on this is second to none. Glad I got it.👍

[joost]

happy new year boil patiently waiting for the Klanghelm TENS here!!

[angelorasmijn]

I just got the Relab. I used it on a saxophone and it sounds great.

[davidharrison]

Hey Mike, reverb time was different on the vocal and drum examples - 1.25 seconds on the Savant and 0.9 seconds on the Relab.

[donnas]

Savant Audio has a much more reasonable fair non-greedy price at $74 compared to Relab 149 = savant audio for the win 🏆

[Barncore]

13:23 You've got the relab on 0.9sec and the Savant on 1.8sec, that's why the savant is so much longer

[Seanrayamusic]

Got the Relab just because I’ve had a great experience with the company. Never used Savant Audio before so brand loyalty won me over on this one. Both sound great!

[njcity]

I can only imagine Savant audio being so miffed about this. As far as I can tell it's their first product of any note, and they probably thought they'd identified a gap in the market (no other good QuantX emulations), spent ages making it, refining it... and then a few days later Relab, a well-established and known brand in the reverb game come out with the same idea. Unlucky I guess.
I'm not in any way knocking Relab. I LOVE both Sonsig-A and LX480 and use them both frequently. I will definitely be getting QuantX from Relab.

[dwightdeon]

Unrelated to the reverb. Mike, are those horns real or a synth/VSTi? I'm looking for something like that for a track and I'm gonna
assume they're real players in this example

[sevenmang]

Please....
how to mixing vocal forward and instruments are behind.
Please can you explain about this vocal forward mixing details❤❤

[Duracellmumus]

So we have a qrs/l from 83. it has not got any HF content because it has a built in 96db/oct. LPF @ 8Khz on input and on outputs.

[sebastiandior]

Personally I like the relab better, it just seems to give me a vibe.

[soundshigh]

The Savant sounds like has a longer tail/size/predelay maybe at the same settings. The Relab sounds tighter. It seems to me that the Relab version maintains the sound of the source a bit better also.

[amunahm]

Relab doesn’t have the reverb tail, Savant does.

[Am-]

Only tried the Savant one, but the usability with that is really horrible. Completely baffling to me how anyone can think that transporting a hardware user interface from the eighties 1:1 to the computer screen would be a good idea (and the solution would be so easy, just drag up/down on the numbers)… Relab seem to get that right, although whether that is worth the price difference I’m not sure.
Oh, well. Saved some money, planning on getting to know the dozens of reverbs that I already have better 😊