Waves Ssl E Channel Vs Slate

That said to the op if you re looking for plugins whose performance is on par with analog or close to it i would highly recommend both uad and slate as well as.

Waves ssl e channel vs slate.

The waves ssl e channel and g channel plugins. It gives me the vintage e curve with the saturation that makes it so musical. I use it even though i have an original ssl console every instance of the plugin is identical so stereo pairs stay matched and i often use one plugin instance on. I do use and like both but with the waves you get an entire channel strip in 2 variations plus inky and output gain gating compression and both hi and low filtering.

I use plugins from other companies like izotope slate and even the good old stock plugins from avid. In this case it emulates 3 very specific consoles the classic console owned by mike hedges the cure siouxsie and the banshees dido faithless manic street preachers u2 heard on such. Once in a while it s cool as an overall coloring tool. Remember that waves is just one company that offers great tools for mixing.

I went through a phase of using it frequently. They have the best service in. The bx console 4000 e and bx console 4000 g. Now i only use it once in a while.

Brainworx offers two ssl channel strip emulations modeled after the e and g consoles respectively. The waves ssl e channel is my constant mix companion the best channel strip plugin for me. Before i get into the top 5 waves plugins i use i would mention that i don t only use waves audio products in my mixes. Too subtle to be used as an effect.

Both channel strips offer 72 unique channels through the use of tmt allowing you to more effectively recreate the sound of an actual physical ssl console in your daw. The api 2500 ssl e channel h comp h delay gtr 3 dbx 160 vitamin the renaissance plugins and even the cla signature series plugins are all fantastic and worth purchasing. The eq section of the e channel is modeled after the black knob 242. It also adds small or in the case of the n not so small amounts of gain which often leads to a louder sounding better situation which isn t helpful.