The heft and depth of the Brit N is worth it alone.
I honestly cannot imagine mixing without it. Much like yourself and many others, I mostly mix ITB so VCC goes on everything around here. (boy I really sound like a shill, don't I? ) I'm officially a fanboy.Ī little late, I rarely come here, but the Slate team has drastically cut mix times down. These guys and Kush Audio (and maybe Sound Toys) are really on the cutting edge of analog emulation/ sounding plugins, and they're really making ITB mixing a more viable option than it's ever been- I highly recommend them for anyone with an in the box home studio. There's some sound clips on gearslutz which are pretty impressive- I'll definitely be getting it the day it comes out. They're also about to release the Virtual Buss Compressors- 3 compressors modeled after the SSL buss comp, REDD comp that CLA uses all the time, and a Fairchild- Manley Vari-Mu hybrid. Just bought Trigger too, (haven't used it yet) and I'm really excited to have the option of blending in some great samples in my recorded studio drum tracks if they need them, I can think back to a couple sessions where either the floor tom or kick weren't quite cutting it in the mix and it would have been great to have it as an option, so that shouldn't be an issue anymore (although it's sort of a last resort thing for me- I prefer to get it right coming in). I'm by no means a masterer- but I got the FG-X mastering plugin for when I did have to deliver a master on my own, and it's AWESOME for getting the volume up to snuff without totally squashing the track. VCC (Virtual Console Collection) and VTM (Virtual Tape Machines) are mainstays in my mixes now and I can't imagine mixing without them- I have an entirely "in the box" setup at home and they give my mixes an analog feel and sound- really gluing everything together. I use Steven Slate Drums 4 Platinum on my V Drums kit at home and have gotten surprisingly realistic sounding tracks- I've been doing some work for composers with them and they've been really happy with the results. I "emulate" EMI, NEVE, and API desks using a combo of waves, acustica audio, slate, airwindows, sonimus, etc.These haven't been talked about much here- I've been incredibly impressed with their whole product line and now own just about everything they make. i also do this with the slate VCC and VRM from time to time, just depends on how i feel.Īs far as what you do, if you get the results you want with how you're doing it, keep pushing.but nothing wrong with experimenting with different configs either. I try to to stick with 4000G all the way thru. send it all to tape/eq/comp/etc (again, if that's your thing) route channels/group busses to VCA groups in the final bussĥ.
put another waves NLS buss on your final buss channel/submix buss/2-buss (not the unity gain master channel, unless that's your thing) in first insert.Ĥ. on the group busses, insert the waves NLS buss (spike) in last insertģ. then the waves NLS (spike setting), which also emulates ssl 4000G, on the last insert of the channel.Ģ. the tape emu softens the signal before it hits the channel strip. every audio channel gets a tape emulation first (usually waves q-clone/tritone colortone/ferric TDS, or whatever works and is CPU lite), into the waves ssl 4000G strip (which i think emulates the whole channel from direct input to output).
This may/may not be proper, but i do a so-called ssl console emulation in just abt ever mix i do. Gain tool -> vmr mixbus ->fg-s 4k eq -> fg 401 comp or 1176.Īuxes : verbsuite classic -> vmr mixbus -> fg-s 4k eq -> fg 401 comp VCC channel module (emulating the desk inputs) Tape plugin again ( the recorded multitrack tape was/is played back and fed into the SSL desk channels)ģ. drop signal by -18dB with a mixtool/gain tool or internally in vmr with the trim module (so i can drive plugins which saturate, harder).Ģ. get a low to medium-strenght signal in.ġ. (edit : of course these can be dropped as inserts as well, putting them on the input channels and "print" them is more risky - i like, and yes this way you have 2 tape plugins on the channels.ġ. !!! warning this cannot be undone as these plugins are on the input channels !!!
i use Slate VMR, VTM and VerbSuite Classics. i think the whole chain must be replicated from the preamps, tapes, mixing board, tape again. So by studying the SSL4000 signal chain for some time i felt that just putting a ssl4000 channel strip plugin on the channels don't cut it.
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