But, I can tell you for sure that I spent less money on all my Waves plugins than the listed price for Mercury "on sale" this weekend, which was the lowest price I've ever seen for my upgrade offer over the past few years. I (as of black friday) own Mercury and SSL, and I spent years upgrading to the big bundle, and even now, I don't think I need all of em but it was an ok price.
I'd suggest that you don't buy individual plugins and grab bundles and the free plugins that are given out over time and then just upgrade to the next tier. If you want more info, I'm pretty sure running a search for "I hate Waves" will get you that, lol. On top of these new features, Waves SSL EV2 Channel brings hundreds of presets by Grammy-winning producers & engineers- Jacquire King, Joe Barresi, Stuart White, Dave Pensado, Jack Joseph Puig, Tony Maserati, Tom Lord-Alge, Lu Diaz, Rich Costey, and many more.Fun fact: they're always on sale, and their marketing strategy is technically illegal in some countries.
New Mic Preamp section This gives you the front-end control of the hardware strip with separate Mic and Line pots allowing you to drive the signal with variable saturation, plus the -20dB pad and polarity invert buttons from the original.
This is the modern incarnation of the “E Series” EQ as found on SSL’s current hardware. This has 18dB of cut or boost available (instead of 15dB) with a revised control law in the low band giving tighter control. With Brown Knob EQ switched out, you get the ‘Black Knob’ EQ (aka “242 EQ”). The two shelving filters are traditional 6dB/octave designs with the BELL button switching in the symmetric Q peaking response. New ‘Brown Knob’ EQ The original Brown Knob EQ design (aka “02 EQ”) gives SSL’s classic symmetric Q design ensuring that the ☓dB up/down points remain constant from the centre frequency regardless of frequency and amplitude settings. As well as the under-the-hood revisions, the plugin has new headline functions to enhance the E channel experience. This completely new plugin is re-modelled from the ground up using new analogue modelling technology. This is not a simple revision of the old Waves SSL E channel. Combining the winning convenience of a plugin with an authentic 4000E sound goes some of the way to explain why it’s not unusual to see engineers using them even with the real thing next to them! The console’s influence is perhaps best demonstrated in the roll call of licenced plugin versions of its revered channel strip, with broad-brush dynamics and the workmanlike-yet-musical EQ available in one tool. With mix automation and both record and play paths in the same channel, the modern DAW certainly has more than just a passing resemblance to the 4000E.
Judge for yourself.įor anyone unfamiliar with it, the SSL SL4000E console was the all conquering studio behemoth that filled control rooms the world over from an era when the studio computer was the thing next door you used to print off the invoice… Although a far rarer sight now, it invented an entire studio paradigm on its own that arguably continues to shape the tools that we use today. We check out how the latest plugin emulation sounds next to a real one. The SSL 4000E console was one of the most recognisable presences in studios around the world.