![]() ![]() Here's a short video where the development of the plugins is discussed: There are a lot of plugins available but I use the classic SSL 4000 collection since it was developed on the basis of that particular legendary console and since I've heard the plugins in action at my friend's studio and loved them. It's still NOT the same as using the actual console but if you know how to work around the plugins, you can get the signature SSL sound if you are looking for it. Since the SSL prides itself in unique sound and quality, the developed plugins are really the closest to the real thing I've ever heard from any other plugin. ![]() Most plugins do the work and can even come close to the real life compressors and EQ's but there's always a certain amount of quality missing. If you think about it, taking something analogue and turning it into endless lines of digital code simply cannot work as good as the real thing. Most of the time you don't expect your plugins to be like the real thing. Since the console is both huge and way too expensive, SSL plugins were created so that people with less money or small home studios can get close to that legendary SSL sound. In other terms, it looks like and acts like an Enterprise main computer. You just let it be and whenever something stops working, you need to call a guy to replace the parts with new, original SSL parts. The console has so many sensitive components that once you plug it in, you never turn it off. I've seen many videos where people work on the console or talk about the console and I've heard a lot of albums mixed and recorded on the console and the best description of the SSL sound would be punchy, very clear, very present, very well melded together and, as someone said, surgically precise. I've read online that SSL claims to be behind more platinum albums than all other consoles combined which is probably not entirely true but if you look at the work that was done on this console, it's not so far fetched either and here's to name a few: a couple of Bruce Springsteen albums (including Born in the USA), Green Day's American Idiot, Madonna, Metallica's Master of Puppets, Nirvana, Paul Simon's Graceland, Queen, Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street etc.įor some reason, there's something in the SSL sound that beats other consoles and, as everything with music and sound, it's a bit hard to explain. This particular 4000s series is now considered to be a classic and it's still popular amongst bad ass mixing engineers in the music industry today. In other words, SSL stands for Solid State Logic and they produce state of the art mixing consoles. This big ass boy right here is the original SSL 4000 console. So, I went home and wanted to test the difference myself. We compared the first mix and the SSL plugins mix and the SSL was far superior. Yesterday night I stopped by again and he had remixed everything with the SSL plugins in the meantime. ![]() The sound was fantastic and it was probably the best mixing work he's done in a long time. Hi everyone! Two days ago I was hanging around at my friend's studio/office and he was playing one of his latest mixing efforts. ![]()
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