You will get the best representation of the gear with these plugins at the expense of a heavy CPU usage.ĪlexB 4KD Dynamics Collection (SSL 4000E GComp)ĪlexB Classic Logic eQ (SSL 4000E Brown 02 eq)

If you you just want the equalizer and console sound I also recommend the Nebula libraries by AlexB.

Slate Digital's Virtual Mix Rack, Softube's Console 1, and Native Instrument's Solid Mix Series are all good emulations as well, and I would prefer any of them over SSL's Native Plugins. On that note I would personally go with Wave's SSL bundle as I like the channel strips and bus compressor far more on those plugins and it is only $129. It is based on newer and cleaner digital consoles so it doesn't have the vintage flavor of most 4000/9000 console emulations. The basic channel strip and equalizer were usable though. I didn't really like the compressors (the Bus Compressor was decent though), or the vocal and drumstrips. They are all really clean if that is what you are going for, a bit overpriced in my opinion though.

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