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The Mastering MONSTER EQ!- Knif Soma #knif #soma #pluginalliance #eq #mastering

Published 13. augustā 2025.

This is just masterlicious :) 00:00 : Intro 02:55 : Synthwave master bus 11:24 : The Curves (a bit of Plugin Doctor) 12:55 : Pop Master Bus 15:36 : Adding Color with harmonics 19:14 : Rock Master bus #pluginalliance #knif #soma #masteringeq 🪐🚀🪐Check Apollo, my new Padshop 2 Signature Expansion here: https://new.steinberg.net/vst-instruments/padshop/expansions/apollo/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=dom&utm_campaign=apollo-03-2021 Favorite gear I use (Affiliate links- feel free to use them to support the channel at no cost to you :) ): My favourite TRACKBALL mouse for audio: US: https://amzn.to/3jg4K50 UK: https://amzn.to/3h4qUED My favourite wireless trackball mouse: US: https://amzn.to/3jaGiC1 UK: https://amzn.to/3h9mewW My keyboard for Mac and PC (super quiet too): US: https://amzn.to/3xOmx76 UK: https://amzn.to/2UFJwDh My LED pixel panel: US: https://amzn.to/3xWKdWX UK: https://amzn.to/2UusGHg Studio RGB Bulbs: US: https://amzn.to/3wWMOQB UK https://amzn.to/3xSallV

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A special version of Eksa, finally delivered. The filters are similar to the ones in our mastering controller. No OP amps, just class A JFET buffers.

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AB-testing Knif-Rauman speakers and pair of Genelec 8351 with Jonte Knif. Very interesting indeed. #knifaudio #genelec #studiogear #mastering #audiochefmastering #hifiaudio #recordingstudio

OK, it was not fair. But it was interesting. We had a couple of hours of comparison between Genelec 8351 and Knif Rauman No1. Although it was obvious pretty soon, that Genelec was not very good in any respect, it was actually much better than I anticipated. The biggest problem is the weirdly annoying mids/low treble. Other differences, easy to notice, were in realism, transient response, stereo image and depth, all favoring the bigger beast. But let's not forget that Genelec is portable and cheaper. The most interesting questions to me are: What causes the slight lack of resolution and realism and the annoying tonal character? I don't claim to have the answer, but lets take a look at the distortion spectrum. It reveals some things. Note that this measurement was taken at a very low level, and I was in fact not expecting to see much. How ever, we do see very clear peaks, which correspond to the break up modes of the drivers. For example mid driver has break up mode at 6k, and thus it boosts the third harmonic at 2k. It does not boost 2nd harmonic at 3k, because it is crossed over below that. We also see the 2nd and 3rd harmonics of the treble driver at 15k and 10k (break up mode at 30k) and 2nd and 3rd harmonics of bass driver at 400Hz and 270Hz (break up mode at 800Hz) Let's also take a look at the time domain. Step response is, let's put it mildly, interesting. It seems that the X-over between mid and treble is very steep (steeper than 24dB/oct), which causes a lot of spread in the step response. How audible this is, is probably still not fully understood, but since the speaker doesn't sound very convincing, perhaps this is one of the reasons.