In using the EQ and compressor on each Channel instead of third party plugins improves your workflow. It is faster, easier and more straightforward. The good news is the EQ and compressor on each channel sound very good and I find myself not needing to go to third party plug ins as much.

In Cubase I am going to inserts trying to find out which of hundred EQ and compressors I have to use on each Channel. Opening them up, adjusting them, and going back to your main mix screen is really a negative experience.

How many of you stick with just the EQ and compressors built into Harrison 32C？ in addition I don't need to run to third party tape plug ins either

I use both MixBus 6, and Mixbus32C 6 as my "summing mixer". I really enjoyed using a Rupert Neve Designs 5060 summing mixer at a local studio. I would do all the tone adjustment. EQ fixing, etc. in Logic using lots of plugins when necessary, then move audio around so I could use the 5060. Basically print my tracks and buses for "final" mixing.

I really like what Mixbus does to the sound just simply passing it through the channels and the mix buses. I usually saturate. The only 3rd-party plugin I use is one of my choices of mastering tools - Ozone 9, T-Racks 5, and sometimes the Lurssen Mastering Console.

I use Mixbus when working on live tapes, just seems to fit my mood. 32c for studio projects. Pretty much my "mastering" tool...I really like being able to use my X-Touch for working on the mix buses...wheee...

The one thing I miss about conventional parametric EQs is the real-time spectrum analyzer, so I usually add this one to each channel since I already have it:

http://x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-eq

I've gotten better at doing EQ by ear in Mixbus, but it's still sometimes good to have that real-time display to verify what I think I'm hearing and where I'm hearing it.

Yes. It took a while for me of blindly AB’ing to get confident with the built in dynamics, but now id venture that the bass and lead vocal are some of the only track level dynamics I don't do with them generally speaking.

I have two big areas where ii use third party most of the time: bus processing....and reverb.

I'm now doing the same thing.
I'm a Logic user and do some crazy stuff with scripter scripts I wrote and I use to use spend too much time inserting and hearing which plug-in sounds good.
Now I just export all the tracks to audio and bring them into MixBus 32c (just bought it on an upgrade price, was using MixBus v6) and I too have found that I'm using no EQ/Compression plug-ins anymore.

The only 3rd party plug-in I'm using would just be a reverb.

I even figured out how to use Space Designer in Logic Pro X with MixBus.

Logic user here as well who mixes in Mixbus 32C. Great combination!

I usually have everything taken care of with my track editing in Logic and then just import the bounced tracks out of Logic into Mixbus 32C.

Like everyone has been saying, I just use the Mixbus EQ and compression and some saturation. And I own all the Mixbus plugs which I use too.

I use a mastering chain to preview how the track is going to sound after it is mastered, but I bounce the mix without it and then master in Logic or DP.

Pat

I guess I'm bumping an old thread, but there's so little traffic in here it's OK, right?

For me, using fewer 3rd party plugins is the magic of Mixbus 32c. The inclusion of EQ, compression, and drive on every track -- it's going to save me dozens and dozens of VST windows.

I'm also a big fan of Waves NLS -- and I was able to achieve a similar result driving the tracks and busses in Mixbus32c.

Having everything right there, easily accessible without popping up so many windows -- it's really quite exciting. You don't realize how much of that you do until you work in Mixbus 32c for a while...

Then when you jump back to your previous DAW it's nonstop popups for edits.

I'll probably still compose in Reaper since the possibilities are endless, but finalizing the mix in Mixbus 32c is a good way to take off the composition cap and just focus on the mixdown. The finalization.

The sound of Mixbus32c is half of it - but the other half is usability. If you embrace the workflow, it can be a really enjoyable DAW to work in. You can get good results quickly, which for me is a magical escape from the OCD mixing habits I've gotten into with the endless possibilities of other DAWs.

And V7 feels really stable compared to previous versions. It's the version that made me finally buy it. (And it's $149 right now for anyone interested. Sometimes they have sales for $99 though so you might want to wait... But I'd rather pay the $50 and have it sooner while V7 is fresh.)

Short answer Yes. I have been Studio One user for some years and I have used Waves NLS and Studio One Console Shaper and some other plugins to get saturation and analog feel to my mixes.

I had purchased the Mixbus licence two times earlier with poor results: Crashes and compatibility issues. That was the regular version of Mixbus. Now I got the 32C because the offer was good. I also now have RME audio interface which can affect the stability.

So I purchased the licence one more time and I'm glad I did. The software has been stable with both of my computers Win10 desktop and old (early 2011) Mac laptop. I was able to get the good sounding mixes without additional plugins. But I still have a few additional plugins I want to include to my mix like Pultec style EQ, 1176 style compressor and a few master bus plugins I always use. But I would say this has been a game changer for me.

I will continue to work with Studio One when producing but I will start mixing with Mixbus.

A side note: We did a live streaming gig last week and I used the Mixbus to mix it. I was also playing with the band so I figured we'd record a few tunes and I'll find a good general mix for the songs and use the template to mix the band playing live. I only used the Mixbus mix tools (didn't want to risk the stability by adding other plugins) and I worked out fine.

A few like pro q3 or elevate if I need to make finer cuts.

But mixbus32c and my hardware is a match made in heaven.

I track, edit and produce in Cakewalk then export to MB32C for mixing. Many recordings need brought up to studio quality and CW workflow, lower cpu usage and midi editing do this for me. I can concentrate on mixing and mastering workflow using the EQ and mixbuses with minimal plugins. In sum, workflow (and templates) and separating basic duties and producing from mixing and mastering reduces plugin count. Happy days!

Also, a bit late to the party, but want to definitely confirm that I reduced the number of 3rd party plugins.
Actually, it is namely iZotopes flagship plugins, the Klanghelm plugins, lately I often grab for Acoustica Black (free!) and some Analog Obsession plugins (also free in the meantime, I was very surprised how good some of them sound to my ears, I use compressors on drums and bass). I use airwindows NotJustAnotherDither and NotJustAnotherCD (I have the impression it is somehow better than what I used before, of course only for final / mastering / pseudo-mastering export. Sample rate down conversion I do outside the DAW with finalcd.
Rarely some Tokyo Dawn Labs flavor.
Sounds like a long list, but compared to what a plethora of plugins I used before Mixbus, it is a very clear direction: Using good sounding stuff that does not degrade what Mixbus does and enhance some of the surgical and analysis tasks with iZotope ...
Having a newer workstation with quite some power and a great amount of RAM probably helped a lot not to think all the time about DSP processing power and I can concentrate on what I want to achieve.

Does Harrison also have a mix knob to adjust dry /wet like Raeper has for every plugin? For example make a compressor 50% dry and 50% wet instead of 100 % wet when inserted.

No.

Ok, thanks. Since not every plugin has a wet/dry knob, I could not use every plugin. Most plugins I don't use 100% wet. I thought of demoing Harrison, but now I won't. Not very clever to make a yt video called" why is Harrison better than Reaper", I am pretty sure Reaper even has some more important features you won't find in Harrison. Also not clever to promote some Harrison plugin as the most analog sounding one and Youtubers show that it's just the opposite, the most digital sounding said to be analog emu. They also try to use Bruce Swedien and mj as their crowd pullers, well, again they won't get me, I do not like mj at all. This dev is not good imo and I think I will never be their customer.

Then I saved you time money and you stick with your n00b quicksand app. I can save you even MORE time looking around by pointing out that no other DAW I'm aware of has such a universal affront to good audio engineering--so, you can stop looking.

You're home. You're welcome.

Yes, I find using the Channel dynamics to be a workflow improvement. They DO sound good. The more I use HMB32C the more I use those features and limit my 3rd party plug ins to effects use. 32C is a great music production platform. I just wish I had the same level of skill with it as I do with Pro Tools. Although I do use the Harrison plug in on my master bus. My upcoming album project is probably going to be recorded, and tweak/edited on PT then mixed on 32C though, just for those features.

Well, there has to be superstar you like who was mixed in Reaper then. Very curious. I too hate PT just because so many bad music has been made with it. Maybe it just needs a wet/dry knob.

I do not care who uses Reaper, afaik Reaper has never promoted with the name of a so called star or whoever, a wet dry knob for every plugin is very important for me, though, one of the most important things, so Harrison is completely useless for me. I do not hate Harrison, it's just not for me.

Not sure why you need that but in parallel compression applications where your Trying to blend . But honestly, nothing beats a Softtube for paralleling for me. At least for vox.

You are not sure, why one would need that? Do you always add 100% of an effect to a dry signal, well, I don't. I always want to keep some of the original sound. Yeah, Softube has some nice plugins indeed