Waves SSL EV2 Channel Strip review

In which I test out the Waves SSL EV2 channel strip and find out if its all that.
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[@RedMeansRecording]

I am very much looking forward to you dragging more waves plugins in such a thorough fashion

[@RedMeansRecording]

Also Dan, what does the slithery synth line in the beginning?

[@DanWorrall]

The opening part? Two sine waves driven by polyrhythmic arpeggiators (3 against 5), with distortion, plus FabFilter Timeless glitches and pitch glides.

[@lorenzo_villa]

I would love to see a review like this for the scheps omni (which is my favourite and main plugin)

[@lastwarning1]

"Dragging"? Okay Cassandra from homeroom

[@everybodyhasoul5438]

Same

[@GingerDrums]

this is precisely the type of video which will drive up the quality of products for engineers. even handed and as objective as possible. thanks dan

[@IrionDaRonin]

Dan is a maestro, i would like to see a plugin company hiring him just to make a channel strip Dan Worrall Edition with all he would find useful and necessary. Really, i would like to see that and then a video by himself explaining why this and that and how it works. Keep up the good work, man. Cheers! :)

[@zwsh89]

Thank you for putting waves in their place with this one. It is much needed. When analog emulations we’re a novel thing 20 years ago and Waves and UAD were the only ones doing it, sure, recreating the hardware limitations in the plug-in made a little more sense. But now that the market is saturated with analog emulations, the bar is being raised by companies that are starting to really push the boundaries on combining the best of analog emulations and digital workstations. Companies you feature right here on the channel, like TDR, u-he, and fabfilter to name a few. So when waves had the opportunity to innovate again when they released an update to their SSL channel, but chose not to, I was disappointed, but not surprised. Hopefully having someone like you who isn’t afraid to tell the truth as an affiliate will help them wake up to the fact that times have changed and in order to make compelling, usable modern tools for the DAW means taking hardware emulations beyond the hardware. While it’s not perfect either, look at the amount of extra thought that went into the design of the BX_SSL4000 series.

[@zwicker5585]

Brainworx did a great job with there analog emulations. Headroom, input and output, and mix parameters on every plug in is just exactly what we need in every plug in these days

[@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849]

Yeah, another fan of the Brainworx SSL right here.

[@jonytube]

TDR, U-he and fabfilter are great examples of such companies, couldn't put it better myself.

[@cmd_f5]

TDR and FabFilter, two of my favorite companies doing this kinda thing. They give us analog options without being afraid to fully harness digital capabilities.

[@zwsh89]

Pulsar, Tone Empire, Acustica, Arturia, kazrog, and Audified also come to mind, but the list is ever growing these days

[@johnponder5973]

A very thorough and insightful review. Thank you, Dan. With so many plugin developers and choices available, an informed decision is sometimes hard to acquire.

[@ChristianIce]

I do mind if the value showed is not exactly the amount of gain I am adding or subtracting, and it has nothing to do with mixing with your ears. It happens often that I have a chain of plugins, and if I want to subtract one db on one and adding it on another, while at the end of the chain I've got a multiband compressor, I end up hitting the compressor harder without noticing it, just because you are 8 hours in the mix and you don't double check simple math, you trust that 1 - 1 = 0.

[@D-One]

Same. Also, for the less experienced it's important correlate values to what your hear, if a change labeled 2db would be different on every plugin then we would never learn how much of a difference 2db really sounds like.

[@scottpearson5091]

Dan, you’re on my list of people to have a beer with someday. Your videos are thee best! Thank you sir!!

[@markvanbavel118]

Incredible, Dan. I appreciate your honesty even with a deal with Waves in place.

[@iainmackenzieUK]

These days, I regard WAVES as marketing for 'wealthy enough enthusiasts' rather than professionals. Not that I am claiming to be even competent. But buying loads of plugins seems to be a phase we all go (I went) through and WAVES is there to fulfill that need. Now I aim to learn to use a few good plugins well. Maybe I will be inspired by Dan to buy more in future - Having said that, I got so much from this tutorial and remain an enthusiastic student. Thank you Dan

[@privateer2584]

I couldn't agree more. I bought all of them back in the day (Mercury bundle). Now I mainly use the Fab Filter stuff and a few select others. The only Waves plugins I use frequently now are RVox and Maxx Bass.

[@marcelosuarez3027]

Love your videos Dan, you're the most interesting, articulated and even funny audio geek youtuber out there!

[@Alex_Martz]

Excellent review!, this is the kind of reviews for plugins I want to see!, Thanks!

[@weedywet]

Here's the thing (as I suspect you know),: lots of bedroom recorders who've never been anywhere near a real analogue desk have been convinced they "need" an SSL. So what they WANT is something that looks just like the real thing, and they don't know or care if it actually does a good job. I'd argue that there isn't anything at all that this does that the Scheps Omni Channel doesn't do much better (just to take another Waves plug in as an example). But then that doesn't press that satisfaction button that makes a hobbyist think "now I have an SSL"

[@besimbaftiu]

I really appreciate the way you analyze in detail every time but, the most important thing is that the music has to be able to get to the listener and this is outstandingly present from the first record that ever came out. I still think about being able to do something that doesn't have to be elaborate on, if it is so thanks for your hard work and I can tell you something, I learned a lot from your content and I really appreciate everything you do for community. My point is that you can inspire people in creative ways. Bless you good human being. Greetings from Kosova. Besim Baftiu.

[@G_handle]

Dan, do you have any actual Mixing videos on the interwebs? I for one would Love to see your full process, especially after watching this video which I think is the most comprehensive Channels --> Busses --> 2-Bus setup you've shown on this channel. (I happily admit that I've watched ALL of your videos here numerous times.) I, like all the rest of your fan club, really appreciate the quality and thoughtfulness of these KZbin episodes (Pretty much everything else goes on pause as soon as I get the alert), and your focus not on "Tips & Tricks" but rather techniques, fundamentals, and philosophies. However I think MUCH value would come from watching you take a song from Importing raw Multitracks --> Exporting Stems and a Final Mix. (Maybe a short series of videos with as many parts as you see the stages of a start to finish mix. Say "Dan Worrall Mix Series: 1/5 - Mix Prep", "...2/5 - Static Mix Balance", etc.) Not that you don't give us Way more than we deserve already, but if such a series were to exist, I would likely watch it once a month for the rest of my life!

[@classicrkr2480]

He was the engineer that FabFilter hired to create their "Mixing and Mastering" playlist that is extremely helpfu: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5umqHypiZWLbq8 Of course some of them are directly geared towards FabFilter plugins, but there is still great info in there.

[@arweailyen5120]

His actual songs are pretty meh

[@luiza177music]

Really love this analytical approach to plugin reviews!

[@lostreverb9806]

New video from you brings a smile to my face, regardless. Also, loved your recommended channel! 💯

[@BrofUJu]

Great video. I like having the options of all of these things, old school stuff where I'll use my ears, more surgical stuff, and sometimes the Scheps is great just to drop on a background element and mix the entire thing in one plugin.

[@mthomas1091]

Thanks Dan! I’d love to watch you go through the Scheps 🙏 (for the same reasons/differences you point out here).

[@Nachimusic]

Thanks for this video. Needed to hear that calming voice today!

[@samkenny3075]

fantastic and thorough as always-- I'd love to see a scheps omni channel review sometime-- love this channel!

[@mr.hubiverse876]

You’re channel is stellar man. Much love ❤️

[@JohnSmithiuyytw]

Very much enjoying your tunes and great advice.

[@Big_Stewdio]

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. About as good as reviews get with loads of useful information and just the right amount of opinions too.

[@MarsX69]

Dan, thank you for this very in-depth video. You are one of a handful of people that makes reviews that really makes sense. Waves, are you listening...? I really do hope you will review the Scheps Omni-channel as well. I expect you like the workflow much better of this all-in-one channel solution than any thing else you've put your hands on so far. Thanks again for your contribution, thumbs up!

[@bjorn208]

One of the best reviews I have ever seen. Thank you very much. I‘d like to see more waves stuff. Most of all the Abbey Road Mastering Suite.

[@No.0.o.0]

Really dig your synth patches this one is glorious, wish i knew what was going on in that intro patch. So pretty and animated

[@DanWorrall]

Two sine waves driven by polyrhythmic arpeggiators (3 against 5) with distortion plus glitches and glides from FabFilter Timeless 3.

[@Peter-gu9ph]

Great work on the review - very informative - and very entertaining!

[@grandrapidsvoiceover1040]

Always love the content Dan!

[@philburns5656]

This turns out as a high quality, very detailed QA review. Now Waves knows how to make this a good channel strip. Hope, you get your fee for this QA, Dan. ;-) It is most important that you keep being honest and fair, and it's great to see you do!

[@Rhythmattica]

Exactly my thought,.. Waves coders and R&D will be getting some invaluable information to employ or remove features with just a NFR .. Brilliant! Question is.... Since this really is the first full Waves review, will they actually take on board what Dan has pointed out? If in a few months there are options as suggested, I bet it'll be another version and another cost. Say the "SSL almost EV Virtual 3"

[@pedrochalkho7629]

This could actually be a great opportunity to debunk some Waves myths like the ones that imply that practically every compressor they designed is an untouched RComp with a saturation stage added.

[@AmagrasMUSIC]

Whoever said that has no idea what’s talking about

[@pedrochalkho7629]

@@AmagrasMUSIC I don't believe it is that simple either! I respect the heck out of Waves for what they've brought us in the DSP realm. However... there ARE some famous myths worth looking into, I believe. I mean, going by the main plugin featured on this video alone, it is somewhat widely believed that EV2 is a stripped down CLA Mixhub.

[@AmagrasMUSIC]

@@pedrochalkho7629 if you knew the story of waves from the beginning you wouldn’t believe that; but also it’s all in the manuals, forumites don’t read those anymore?

[@pedrochalkho7629]

Yeah, sure, the manuals! xD

[@AmagrasMUSIC]

@@pedrochalkho7629 yes, the manuals explain when they used an algorithm from old plugins

[@letsallbe-friends1120]

*More incredible insights from the "Rainman" of audio!* 😎👍

[@andreifilip]

The only channel strip I use, is the SSL9000 from PA, mainly for the same reason as you Dan, and when I do, I use the THD knob cranked to max, just to get some added harmonics...and often I use FF ProQ3 to further sculpt the sound if needed. I'm not ashamed I work 100% ITB, and take advantages of every "weird" quirk a software plugin can do, after all in computer world we most often we use the mouse ( can't really say anything about any DAW Control Surface as I haven't tried one yet ). Thanks for the video Dan, really informative. Cheers

[@danross6517]

Really appreciate the review and the content! My only note where I differ is that I always try to gain stage my mix from the fader on a channel strip and not my DAW faders. It makes automation nicer and means I have the same resolution for automation on all channels. Plus I know that if 1 channel is -1.6db then it's because I accidentally knocked it

[@DaniTorresOfficial]

Was always wondering when you would do a proper waves analysis... Please continue this project, thank you!!! 🙏❤️

[@MusokeMSK]

I love the scheps omni channel. Literally use it on every mix. Especially for bus processing. Would love the see a full review 🙏

[@sm5574]

The one (big) gripe I have with Waves is how they separate mono and stereo versions for all their plugins. All other plugin producers have managed to make their products intelligent, but not Waves. It slows down my workflow and doubles the number of keyboard shortcuts I need for my plugins. And I can't tell you how often I've wasted time trying to figure out why a stereo track didn't sound right, only to find a mono Waves plugin to be the culprit, followed by the fun of duplicating the settings after installing the stereo one. I like Waves, but I hate their mono/stereo policy.

[@BojanBojovic]

It is your DAW actually, Reaper does not have stereo and mono tracks, it is the limitation that exists only in our brain as we're used to this old way of thinking.

[@sm5574]

@@BojanBojovic, no other company's plugins do this. It's Waves.

[@rrrafiel]

Yes, but stereo plugins will use 2x the CPU of a mono plugin.

[@Solanaar]

Or maybe Waves could install a mono/stereo-switch that also dynamically adjusts the cpu load. that's not too complicated

[@sm5574]

@@rrrafiel, they shouldn't have to if it isn't necessary. Use mono processing for a mono track, and switch to stereo for a stereo one.

[@okay1904]

love your guitar playing awesome. nice review of plugin

[@soundfx68]

Thanks for linking the Reaper Theme

[@XCenturionX]

Great video as usual. Always admire your work. That's a really nice Reaper theme, by the way. Would love to see an analysis of the Waves, Scheps Omni Channel sometime in the future.

[@PJBonoVox]

Yeah, I was keen on that theme too. Any idea what it is?

[@ruslanviter1869]

the best review of SSL EV2. Thanks! :)

[@petrparizek9945]

When you asked the listeners to suggest other Waves plugins that you could review, the thing that immediately came to my mind was their Enigma, which seems to be included in several of their bundles.

[@KingGrio]

Gotta say Waves got some balls letting Dan go through their plugins with a fine tooth comb and microscope.

[@sylvaind9086]

Dan, you make great points about the need to modernize "console emulation" workflow in a modern DAW. I use them, love them but have often found myself frustrated for having to(for example) choose where I will dedicate my HP/LP filter on SSL emulations.

[@peteranders6893]

I have the bucket and water and watched a few detailing videos on youtube, so just say when and where and I'll help get your car spotless Dan. Then I can always say, I actually know this man irl. I used to wash his car when he didn't have 1m subscribers yet. Some have bigger accomplishments than others, but maybe I should focus on cleaning my own car first...anyway finally subscribed after watching all your videos. The car washing request did it for me.

[@hazybrain7]

Superb - as always. The difference in the bypassed (channel plugins) mix is certainly there, but it seems to me you could replicate this with with many other EQ's and compressors we've all bought over the years, including the native DAW plugs which are rather good on all DAW platforms methinks - could save a lot of CPU in the process. Something I wish I'd known years ago before being seduced by fancy looking GUI's and raving reviews in magazines !

[@nofunclub2604]

Your pre-emphasis EQ video blew my mind. Might be worth revisiting that concept with Waves Studio Rack. Studio Rack lets you save chains of multiple waves plugins. You can assign macros to any parameters and have them inversely proportional, so it would allow users of Daw's that don't have that sort of functionality natively to create emphasis/pre-emphasis templates for their waves plugins.

[@musicproduction1330]

A possible benefit of creating a channel strip with the same layout and limitations of the corresponding hardware is that the users can go back and forth between the two with no learning curve and work the way they're used to working. It's not as flexible as it could be, but it's perhaps faster for those who are used to working that way. This approach could also function as a good training tool for aspiring engineers to come to grips with the hardware before they get to sit down in front of it. Nonetheless, imposed limitations can limit the usefulness of a plugin; and I appreciate you illustrating these issues in your usual, detailed way. Well done!

[@LesVegasMusic]

Dan Worrall's channel is where I go when I want to go to my happy place. 🙂

[@soxxy8588]

You're the best mate!! Keep up the hard work

[@blacklespaul01]

I would love to see this plugin against the previous SSL channel strips and/or the Schoeps Omni strip Thanks for the awesome video!

[@Tomydeclerqueplus]

Finally a proper review for the plugin ... and the developers could easily create the modern version, with switch of a button. So u can choose the original setup channel strip or modernised with all your suggestions

[@GeorgeTitkov]

Thanks for this fine plugin review! Another Waves SSL "channel strip" is CLA MixHub (apart from the hub functionality). However it also sports a switchable 1176 compressor algorithm plus dedicated side chain filters & EQ, plus a built-in parallel compression mix knob. A review/comparison with the EV2 channel strip would be interesting. :)

[@cmd_f5]

Another great informative review. This kinda thing is why I have quit using Waves a long time ago. The name is more important than the quality/usability of their plugins it seems. Hopefully these critical deep dives will help them get back on track. I doubt it, but the info is good for us mere mortals nonetheless. Thanks Dan.

[@davidtippie7267]

Great review! Now that you're partnered with Waves I'd love to hear your take on their analog-style compressor plugins like the LA-2A, SSL Buss, and 1176

[@G_handle]

Channel Strip Plugins (2 of 5) My point here is that Softube as a company, in close coordination with Solid State Logic, deliberately took the Channel Strip Plugin idea much further than it had ever been. They did stick to "accurately emulating" the sound and workflow of the original console(s), but they added a ton of not-so-obvious advancements over the real thing. (I wand to go into depth, but this is way longer than intended already. So I'll try to just hit a couple of points. Thanks DAN!) 1) Mixing in the box with a mouse is 1-Click at a time. I have numerous gaming mice, track balls, track pads, pen displays, tablets etc, and they All have their place. Plus in Reaper you can train them to do Amazing tricks. But the Console 1 hardware is essentially a Midi Controller, dedicated to exactly One plugin. That has many implications but one is that you can grab multiple controls at once, like on Analog equipment. And because the hardware is so tightly connected to the software, you develop a Hand/Ear coordination, even with you monitor switched off, that is simply impossible with any mouse or other "Pointing Device". 2) That point and this one have more to do with the Hardware than the Channel Strip plugin concept, but because that hardware is communicating directly with each of the plugins, from the control surface you can fly through all of the channels in your session. If you had a 96-channel session say on a real million-dollar SSL XL9096J, you would roll your chair way over to the left 48 channels, then way over to the right 48 channel strips, standing up and down to reach all the controls, in and out of the sweet spot, so you return to the center and realize you have to go back to readjust, all day. With this system, there's 20 channel buttons that bank up and down, right at your finger tips on a controller the same size as your QWERTY keyboard. So with 5 clicks of a button, one hundred SSL 9000 channel strips Come to You, within seconds, without you moving one inch out of your perfectly triangulated monitoring system. And again, you never have to touch the mouse or look up at the screen! 3) However, about that screen.... While the knobs on the controller are laid out to match an SSL Channel Strip, spread out and turned on its side (a concept I love, but also one of my pet peeves), and the idea is that your hands already know where to go, plus the controller is full of LED meters and indicators that give you lots of visual feedback for what your hands and ears are telling you, they Also included on On-Screen Display system, that with the click of a button (and maybe not even that) super-imposes a display over whatever is already on your screen and gives you additional Bonus information, audio x-ray vision into your signal that was Never possible on any analog console of the golden years. So the system gives you the sound and the hand/ear mixing workflow of their emulated originals, but with far more of the control and visual feedback of the 21st century mixing experience than was imaginable at the time those studio classics were at their prime. 4) Console 1 is old now, relatively speaking. And it's not the only game in town anymore. Plus it itself has expanded and evolved over the years to include features and functions some of which weren't imagined at the time it was created. That 1 original Analog Console emulation has since expanded to eight, with two SSLs, an API, a NEVE, and others that were never actually Consoles in the real world, but were amazing rack pieces now reimagined into fairly complete console channel strips with the cooperation and endorsement of those companies: Emperical Labs, Chandler Limited, Summit Audio, and Weiss. But that points to another thing that exists within the Console 1 ecosystem... (again this is Not a commercial!) 5) Over the years Console 1 has expanded what you can do with it and it's channel strips. From the beginning you could swap out not only the full console emulations, but the three individual component sections in the chain: you could load the Strip, the Shape, the EQ, or the Comp independently. They've since allowed you to load the Drive section and the Filters separately as well. So you can think of your channel strip as 6 different pieces of gear in a signal chain (like they did with the afore mentioned companies above). And those component sections can come from mixing-n-matching those now 8 Channel Strips, which you can break into 6 parts each giving you 48 pieces of gear (well plugins), but those 6 links in your chain can also come from the hundreds of other plugins Softube themselves as well as Dozens of plugins from their collaboration with Universal Audio. (Plus there's "Apollo Central" mode....but I digress) 6) So again, kinda controller related and not necessarily Channel Strip specific, but putting those buttons knobs and faders from the original hardware, into code, and then Back at your finger-tips rather than mouse clicks, really does change the experience. If you've used any plugins from Softube or Universal Audio with your mouse, and you were happy with the sound and user interface while clicking-n-dragging, putting both hands on two knobs of an LA2A or 1176 finally FEELS right. Your eyes and ears may have been having all the fun, but now your hands get to play as well. I also have to say that, the point of the Console 1 hardware was that the Threshold knob is always the Threshold knob, no matter what emulation you are running. The 4 EQ band gain knobs are always in the exact same place, you don't have to think about it or look for it. And Softube did an amazing job mapping the hundreds of Plugins with thousands of individual Parameters to the 26 FIXED knobs on the hardware controller a when you're using a UAD plugin or UAD Console, it feels like Universal Audio made the hardware. Almost all of it feels intuitive, and the amount of time you do spend looking for something is nothing compared to with the mouse and a plugin window. However this is also its limitation... (Continued 3 of 5......)

[@Studio31Zero]

I haven’t used this channel strip but I have a ton of waves plugins and I absolutely love the way they sound.

[@redblock1382]

dan + waves, been waiting this for so long :D

[@hammondjones9484]

Best videos on youtube for audio nerds, thank you

[@E-1K]

C-1 is my favourite compressor in the world. I think I've been using it maybe 20 years. Reviewing that would be so cool!

[@kaori-3882]

Also using it for 17 years, Unless I want ultra clean sound and than FirComp has won :)

[@davidasher22]

The mix sounded really good!

[@JunkyardSam]

Great analysis of EV2! I hope you will do this for Scheps Omni Channel & AR TG Mastering Chain in the future!!

[@asmarosyoussef]

Waves gave Dan all access to evaluate their plugins and mentioned SSL EV2 as their top seller and they instantly regret it 🤣🤣🤣 as you were giving your honest critics, I've heard that they replicated the 1st SSL, added some features which i consider not a big deal and marketed it well so they can sell it, still not even close to bx_console SSL 4000E which has been there for years. Great video 🙏👍 thanks

[@calvinbatley6592]

Logical Fallatio is a wonderful track. Loved it !

[@darryldouglas6004]

Great review. I bought this a year or two ago because I wanted an SSL console type plugin. I quickly found out don’t touch the red knob unless your mix specifically needed crap. The Studio One fat channel accomplishes the goals without an Add Crap knob. My lesson learned is learn the functions of your DAWs plugins before looking for solutions elsewhere. 😃

[@cjcurcio]

Excellent video! Thanks a bunch!

[@Lefoxtrott]

A million times yes about having two volume knobs with one dedicated to headroom/saturation without any effect on the real level. So many “analog emulation” plugins are SO much harder to use because there’s no simple way to try different gain structures for different modeled preamp behavior!

[@artysanmobile]

The SSL channels from Waves are OUTSTANDING!! I don’t rave often, but really, I’d mix whole shows or records with nothing else if I had to. I’ve been a Waves customer since virtually day one. I remember sending an email with a tech question and getting a phone call in my back yard on July 4 from the founder of the company, saying in a heavy accent “Hoppy Indeepandance Day, Peter”. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I realized what was going on. He spent nearly an hour with me and sent me a Gold bundle from the kindness of his heart which was at the time something really special. It represented at least $800 upgrade from the 6 or 7 plugs I had alreadly purchased. Customer forever.

[@EdwinDekker71]

I like the brainworks ssl strips much better.

[@kramdellakram7247]

Elegant as always

[@drewthompsonhooke]

Thanks, Dan! Please consider exploring the Waves NLS plugins. Cheers!

[@palebluedotstudios]

This reaffirms my opinion on why I don't use channel strip plugins. Cheers!

[@trushreitsam5802]

Love your videos. It would be awesome if you'd make a video about Acoustica, since it now has entered the ARA ranks and is actually not that well known compared to what it is capable of. But anyways keep on doing such fantastic videos. To be honest, your videos have become the most entertaining thing to watch on KZbin. And that's not even accounting for the huge information-value.

[@theaudiocooker2423]

Very good honest video again. Would be interested to hear your thoughts and detailed analysis on some of the new “intelligent” EQ’s like Gullfoss.

[@jeffersonbritoc]

This channel is a Gem!

[@EagerSleeper]

It could be interesting to see you look at Waves' "NX" plugins, and speak to their efficacy in a realistic scenario.

[@cnm_quore]

Hi Dan! thanks for all the schooling! please review the Analog Obsession CHANNEV it be great if you would. cheers

[@lucianogm]

What can i say i havent already, dan! Your plugin tests are awesome. May be would you agree to test waves 1176, scheps 73 or la2a?

[@PASHKULI]

Over the years I grew such a hatred towards waves. Waves Central Installer and placing plugins traces all over the hard drive. Not worth it.

[@ernieg]

I feel your pain!! Tho i paid for the waves plug in. I use the CRACK version 😂 hassle free 🎉🙏🏽

[@derekmccabe9614]

a+ explanation of this plugin.

[@ismailerencetinkaya336]

"I, now, officially have too many plugins." me too man

[@tenison7990]

the end when you started using all the waves plugins on your excellent tune and that beautiful reaper skin if you can call it that. I found it quite emotionally climactic.

[@pietrogirardi]

Thanks for this. I know it would be a bit redundant, but I'd love to see your take on the CLA Mixbus. It has been a huge game changer for me, in terms of overall sound of my mixes and workflow.

[@AndersHansgaard]

Right on, once again. Plus, I love your electric guitar, it reminds me of a Frank Zappa sense of time, timing and switching it up. And then some. Great job. Now, give us more. Please ✌🎶

[@JimijaymesProductions]

Question with the mic and line gain. Are they the same algorithm, I know some neve plugins model the line and mic because they are different, I thought some SSLs are the same. Have you done a video on your mix bus, I love top down mixing and would be interested in your process, sounds great to my ears

[@deeseen3495]

Brilliant review..

[@theheliossound]

woh great video as always thanks! I would be very curious to see what is behind the API collection ...

[@DonutSurprise]

Nice analysis!

[@adamcain2990]

I'd love your take on Fuse Audio Labs' VCS-1, Dan, for a fully-featured channel strip that near enough does everything right. I've a couple gripes with it (same issue with dynamics side-chains, for example), but it's much more feature-rich than the usual strip. Thanks in advance, if you see this.

[@johnvcougar]

Hey mate, thanks for the review, got me thinking about how I use my Waves SSL plugs. As for your car I'm an experienced detailer in Oz, so if you wanted to ship it over, I'll be happy to do you a great deal. 😅

[@mrnelsonius5631]

I kind of feel bad for developers and “analog” channel strips: they are huge sellers and as soon as you deviate from the hardware people complain, even though you are absolutely correct that many hardware quirks don’t make sense in a modern DAW at all. It’s funny about the gate: a small dev I like made an SSL style channel strip excluding the gate section…. The main complaint on the forums over and over was that people wanted a gate section. “Why isn’t a gate there?? It’s not an SSL without it”. Devs can’t win with channel strips. People think they want what they want, hardware accuracy, and that’s just the way it is even if I’m completely of your mind: give me vintage *inspired* tools that fit seamlessly into a modern workflow.

[@mrnelsonius5631]

I also have to ask Dan: did you use the Mutronics Mutator on that guitar solo?? There’s some very cool stuff happening there occasionally that reminds me of it :)

[@DanWorrall]

FabFilter Timeless 3

[@mrnelsonius5631]

@@DanWorrall 🙏🙏

[@ChronOfTheMeguh]

Hey Dan, can you take a look at the pitch shifter waves offer? I wonder what it offers in comparison to the ones already included in DAWs and ones like the Kilhearts Pitchshifter.

[@Tryggvasson]

that line vs mic pre gain combination has always preoccupied me in terms of the gain structure on the ssl emulation, it's great to have that comparison made in such a net fashion. i don't use the ev2, however, in cla mixhub, various combinations between the two, while keeping the pre output constant (via the gain ratios, no touching the fader), yield vastly different timbres. watching your video makes me retroactively doubt my ears, although the difference has never been subtle. i'd really be interested in seeing you give mixhub a thorough once over. i really like the fader on a console strip, by the way. i agree it's just for gain compensation, and i do prefer to have a single output adjustment, instead of one for each section, for one, and hate to see a knob for the output instead of a fader, secondly. not as precise and easy to work with, but mostly it's a visual feel. that fader is what tells me it's a console, and gives me the feeling and the mood, and the eagerness to work. that's the difference between an artist (as a vocation, at least, not necessarily as a qualification, that's not for me to assess) and an engineer - it's not all measurements, wheels and gears, but the joy and the feeling of working with it. does it give you the mood or not? same as with cars, guitars, etc. if something doesn't give me the feeling, it's worthless, and i don't give a rat's ass on what it does technologically - unless amazing and necessary, and with no better replacement, feel wise, but even then i'd hate working with it. so the fader should stay, and every console strip should have one, as far as i'm concerned. by the way, you can also set the default setting for your compressor ration - or anything else - in the plugin, you don't need the daw. i'd be really interested in a cla mixhub review. i really enjoy your videos.

[@firmans12]

Awesome Dan. Pls do the CLA series from Waves

[@Exitof99]

I'm curious if you ever worked with Universal Audio plugins and what thought you might have had. I've tried searching for any videos on them, but didn't find any.

[@privateer2584]

Could you do a video on exactly what RVOX is doing? I've tried to find a replacement for it for years and can't get anything to do what it does.

[@TheCraigAnderton]

One aspect I rarely see mentioned in any reviews is whether a program's controls are multipoint touch-sensitive. It's convenient to be able to, for example, alter an EQ stage frequency while also adjusting the bandwidth, or change a synth's envelope shape while also adjusting the velocity response. EV2 and most Waves plug-ins handle multipoint touch well. However, regarding touch in general, it took me a while to figure out that I didn't need to have my hand over the control where I couldn't see what I was adjusting, but could touch the knob, then slide my finger to the side while still being able to adjust the control. I particularly like multitouch with signal processors and synthesizers, to avoid the "one parameter at a time" mouse issue.

[@Genital.Wartzenegger]

As a hobbyist that is self taught from KZbin and other self help sites. I’ve always stayed away from waves due to the insane amount of hate they get from content creators and commenters saying they suck. Leave it to Dan Worrall to show their power. One thing I did buy in my early days was the waves JJP series, which are all in one plugins to treat drums, strings, keys, etc.. with faders for brightness, punch, ambience and things along those lines. Would love to see a review of those style of waves plugins which streamline workflows for non technic producers.

[@escalator9734]

I'm also self taught from yt and other sites, but until recently I've never seen the hate or dislike towards waves. There was always one or lot more plugins from them on tutorials, ssl stuff, pultec, rvox/bass/whatever, even the ugly 20 years old eq, etc. It has changed since the slate stuff became the cool thing to use, and now there's even more companies making emulations. Crazy to think we saw completely different stuff from the same learning process, there is such much stuff to read and watch from so many different people

[@MKD371]

So, a Gate is primarily used for cutting out noise. Does it need to be on the SSL channel? Why not. It can be a great tone shaping tool.

[@5T45H]

I'm really looking forward for a review of the new "god particle" plugin 😁 Thanks

[@hakajak]

One that me and a lot of people use for pop vocals a lot if RVox. It sounds great and is a "cheat code" but what is it doing under the hood vs a 76+LA2A vocal comp stack?

[@FrankLorenz23]

I would really like a comparison between the "color" you can get from a plugin like this channel strip and a "generic" coloration plugin like Fabfilter Saturn (perhaps plus a compressor). Can you really get a different sound, a typical "SSL console sound", or do you just get a "vintage feel" because of the user interface?