![]() ![]() ![]() He doesn’t just spec the gear, he wants to know how it, in essence, “lives and breathes.” Then he wants to take the best parts of it and incorporate it into his own design. Of course, he loves the original gear, but he sees the original as a benchmark for improvement. You see, for so many of these manufacturers, they become obsessed with sounding the exact same as the original, that innovation takes a back seat. The answer lies in taking a mainstay and slightly reinventing the wheel. So how does the newly release Slate Virtual Buss Compressors fare in this department? Does Slate’s plugin break this rut that manufacturers are in? ![]() There really isn’t a lot different about each company’s interpretations. There are plenty of reasons to hate this, but the silver lining is it forces you to question, “why am I even using this plugin?” The truth came out very quickly upon doing an AB Comparison of the different versions. I want something that sounds good when I turn the knobs! Strangely enough I have Avid to thank for this epiphany when they changed their plugin format. Why do I have 5 versions of an SSL Buss Compressor?! I’m not looking for something that has been through a shootout with the real deal and people can’t tell the difference. I started thinking about this and realized a few things… this is stupid. These folders were full of promises of a near perfect representation of some sort of go-to piece of gear for so-and-so. I would hit the dynamics and EQ folders and just stop like a deer in the headlights and read through all of what I had. I had bought so many of these new plugins that have I read about in interviews with engineers and whatnot that I had overloaded my options. The other day, I was switching between sessions in Pro Tools 10 and 11 and noticed something… my plugin folder is bloated. ![]()
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