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For some reason people believe a neve preamps from the 70s thats $3000+ will sound way better than anything else and no way it can be replicated. I think that was the point i realized not only how powerful plugins had become but also the hype towards branding and the mysticism around brands and specially hardware brands that where famous around the 90s.
#Waves ssl 4000 plugin review series#
There was one video made by waves which has since been removed but it was around when waves came out with the ssl plugin, it was like $600 back then or so, It was a video showing a profesional engineer (famous but cant remeber the name) who mixed the same rock song with a real ssl g series and then mix it again completly ITB using the waves ssl and the final comparison was identical. Around 2004 it was a huge debate about plugins vs hardware and it was very hard for engineers to admit plugins where as good or can get as good of results in a mix for profesional deliveries.
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Neve preamp clones, SSl compressor emution etc etc.
#Waves ssl 4000 plugin review pro#
Pro audio has been replicating hardware and software emulation for about 2 decades now so i think its getting harder and harder to notice differences among them as they are all pretty good. I didnt try the ssl version of their own hardware but i doubt it would be a significant difference. The same dial settings where not the same btw, i had to adjust each other's settings to make them sound similar/same. but without this setting it was very difficult to say which one was better than the other one. The only difference is that the branworx emulation has a small botton for harmonic enhancement which can be replicated on the waves ssl with placing any daw distortion on low settings afterwards. I really didnt find any noticeable difference among them. And im also fasicnated with pro audio marketing and consumer hype on this mystic topic.
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Someone in one of those facebook groups about music prodcution mentioned how crappy waves ssl is compared to branworx so with an open mind i decided to try it out since ive always used waves ssl just cuz i got it once it came out.