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Old 10th July 2008   #29
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Originally Posted by Spyrow View Post
And of course the Waves "Analog" button is doing something else. Some compression, saturation, harmonic distortion... but again, that's another thing. A digital EQ is a digital EQ.
i went to a Eddie Kramer/Waves promotion event recently, and the representative from Waves mentioned that all Waves emulation plugins creates a certain type of harmonic distortion/limiting when the meter/source hits red... as opposed to creating clip distortions.

so having that extra algo's also makes the difference...
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