The black knob which is beautifully warm and full on the hardware is thin and flappy.
There is little to no likeness between the Waves version and the hardware. It's a standard channel strip you would receive stock with any DAW with an SSL skin. This is not a SSL E-Series compressor and EQ. Let's just put this out there straight away. When it's looked at in that sense it falls short massively. The fact that it is branded as an SSL 4000 E-Series channel strip it is meant to emulate as close as possible the analogue hardware. As a compressor and EQ channel strip without the name SSL on it, it would be an OK channel strip. If we were to be doing a star rating system this would get 2 stars out of 5 and that's really being generous. The first emulation in the audio demo is the Waves Audio emulation. As a plugin that claims to emulate the hardware the aim would be that whatever setting you apply on the hardware, if it's copied across to the software it should sound near identical.įrom listening to all 3 versions we have come to the following conclusion. This gives an accurate side by side comparison of each version. We have used the exact same settings on all 3 versions of the SSL 4000 E-Series channel strips.
All emulations claim to emulate the iconic SSL channel strip accurately but do they? In the audio clip below you will hear how each of the emulations compare to the analogue hardware on a simple drum loop.
The 3 versions we used were the Waves Audio emulation, UAD emulation and the Solid State Logic SSL X-Rack module. Read Full Review Here : A number of years ago we ran audio through 3 different versions of the SSL 4000 E-Series EQ and compressor channel strips.
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