They color the music and you can hear that in situations where you do not want to color the music this is not the eq you want to use.
Waves ssl channel strip review.
But solid state logic eq a have a specific feel and sound to them.
The beatles abbey road and pink floyd s dark side of the moon.
Anyone who s ever heard music recorded and mixed in the 80s and 90s has heard the sound of the classic ssl 4000 consoles.
It s a standard channel strip you would receive stock with any daw with an ssl skin.
Tg12345 channel strip by waves albums of greatest note created with the physical console include.
Ssl s reputation for hit making sound is unsurpassed having been used on hit recordings by beyoncé bruce springsteen taylor swift madonna the rolling stones sia and hundreds of others.
The plug in is really a few in one as it has sections for both compression and eq.
Sure you can applie it to any type of music you want.
Moosers s review 5 the waves ltd.
We ve given the waves ssl 4000 plug in a thorough review to see if lives up to its reputation of faithfully emulating the original ssl.
There is little to no likeness between the waves version and the hardware.
Ssl e channel is a software emulation of an solid state logic console channel strip.
However like their other popular plug ins it emulates a range of vintage eqs and compressors from the.
The hallmark is that it gives the vibe of using a bad ass console mixing board.
Of all these consoles the ssl 4000 may be the most famous.
What is a channel strip.
The waves ssl in my opinion works well with hip hop rock and jazz.
From renaissance channel to analog models like emi tg12345 redd and the ssl g and e channels waves channel strip plugins deliver the dynamics and eq to fit your workflow.
The waves manual for the ssl 4000 collection says about the ssl g channel that it is modeled after the sl4000 g series console combining the dynamics section of the sl4000 channel strip with the 383 g eq whereas the manual for the ssl g equalizer states the ssl g equalizer is modeled after the rack mounted version of ssl s g 292 eq.
Contrary to popular opinion mcdsp s channel g below is not an amalgam of their filter bank and compressor bank plug ins see the review of their classic pack elsewhere in this issue but is as they describe it a new plug in from the ground up with new algorithms.