MASTERING PARADISE? WAVEGROVE HCL ISLANDER

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[@djvictornova9188]

Thank you for reviewing this impressive plugin ... This just reconfirmed what i taught about it.. Thanks Again

[@elevateaudioengineering4892]

Wavegrove Varis is excellent as well!

I got since it's release and got the varis when it came out a few weeks ago. Brilliant stuff ! Also clipping wise I got the gold clip from Schwabedigital. It's got some nice mastering features :) Cheers to yall !

[@AH23794]

Gold clip has a crazy learning curve but once you figure it out it's BRILLIANT!!!

[@peterwaterman2007]

My absolute favourite plugin this one. You guys should also try the Magic Death Eye series by DDMF!

[@StudioLife101]

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[@AJOrpheo]

Manley Technically own the word vari mu and is probably the reason why the term became popular in modern times versus calling it valve/tube compression like in the past

[@sburton84]

Would be cool if you'd review their new Varis plugin as well. I already own Islander and not sure if Varis is different enough for it to be worth buying as well? I guess I should probably just try the demo...

[@StudioLife101]

Or...see our review of Varis tomorrow 👍

[@musicmwmusic]

I was curious about that Temph dial in the middle section. I checked the manual and I must say that I remain confused but that probably says more about me than it does Wavegrove. Regardless, I’ll share it here: “Temph cooks the sound making it thicker in a reactive and level-dependent way.” So it’s audio gravy?.. nice!

[@StudioLife101]

Who doesn't love audio gravy? 👍

[@musicmwmusic]

@@StudioLife101 LOL!!

[@KozmykJ]

Yer .. I wuz gonna ask about Temph too. Thank you for saving me the search 👍

[@Wavegrove]

Basically a box-tone control! At 0%, it's more of just the compression, at 100% you get more of the interaction of components etc. Could have probably explained it better in the manual!

[@musicmwmusic]

@@Wavegrove Nice!! Like an "analogness" mix knob somewhat. Very cool idea

[@MrBrownAlliance]

Plug-in Alliance dropped Brainworx bx_XL V3 this week...

[@StudioLife101]

We saw....is it shit though? 🤔

[@Zenvo-uu9tm]

Most probably ​@@StudioLife101

[@bobbyweezer]

Sounds very interesting, thanks for the review. Minor thing, but I'm never a fan of having separate wet and dry controls, as opposed to just a single dial... it wrong-foots me. Is there any advantage to it?

[@StudioLife101]

Not really...only in the case of sending to saturation etc...👍

[@Wavegrove]

Part of the original design! I'd look at it something different from the rest of the compressors. The volumes are before the clipper, so playing with the gains can definitely make it behave differently, as opposed to a dry/wet blend, which would normally be after processing!

[@bobbyweezer]

Thanks for the explanation 👍

[@johndoe-cb5ck]

So it's kinda like a gold shadow hills?

[@StudioLife101]

This is a single comp with clipper... Shadow hills is 2 different comps. Not so much colour as the Shadow Hills.👍