Introducing MixHead!
Q: What happens when Audio Archeologist Rick Carson sleuths out an unacknowledged key component of Serban Ghenea’s mixing master bus process chain (ironically prompted by the photo of Serban in the original ChannelStrip interview he did with Metric Halo)?
A: Metric Halo and Make Believe determine how to recreate the process from scratch, and then send it to Serban to see if it does “the thing” that originally caused him to use it on his bus. Serban tells us that it does “the thing,” asks us to add a couple more features, and switches to using MixHead.
The new features that were asked for and added:
Serban graciously contributed a Preset that provides the settings that he most often used with the original device. That preset is included with MixHead.
As MixHead is a plugin, unlike the device you get full session setting recall, so you can fearlessly experiment with different settings knowing that recall is built in.
MixHead is a processor that emulates an emulation of tape. It is not intended as a faithful simulation of tape; for example there is no head-bump and it does not have parameters for things like tape formulation. Rather, it captures some of the key elements of the excitement that tape brings to the recording process without many of its downsides.
It adds saturation and glue, making disparate elements across the audio spectrum jell together and "sit" in a mix, without dulling the high end or causing the audio to lose its transient response.
While the device was originally generally used as a mix bus processor and has not been available on the market for many years, now, with MixHead you’ll find that you can use it to great effect on the main bus, groups, and even individual channels.
The 3.75 IPS mode adds more aggressive tape distortion and frequency response, and can help with that lo-fi sound on a bus or can be used to simply beef up individual channels.
To celebrate this new release, MixHead and the rest of the Make Believe plug-ins (including the Sontec MES-432D9D) are available through Make Believe Studios - with discounted pricing until 6/15.
You can purchase MixHead for only $99 from now until 6/15.
This special intro offer ends 6/15/2024
and is only available through the
Make Believe Studios Order Form.