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Old 4th January 2013   #1
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SSL EQ 4000E black x-rack vs Waves plug

First round for vocals and EQ only.

All the A's are one and all B's are the other. Different settings pushing the EQs more and more (last has 15 db's at 150 hz so there may be some pops). I matched everything as best as I could. Maybe I ****ed up in some setting.

Waves black 4000 vs Real SSL black EQ. Which one is the real deal?


1A VX TEST EQ MP3 - vx test EQ 1A.mp3 - Minus
1B VX TEST EQ MP3 - vx test EQ 1B.mp3 - Minus

2A VX TEST EQ MP3 - vx test EQ 2A.mp3 - Minus
2B VX TEST EQ MP3 - vx test EQ 2B.mp3 - Minus

3A VX TEST EQ MP3 - vx test EQ 3A.mp3 - Minus
3B VX TEST EQ MP3 - vx test EQ 3B.mp3 - Minus

Wav's:
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Round 2: kick, snare and room mics.

EDIT: gain-staging

2A http://minus.com/lbwgXjTSvsxVyt
2B http://minus.com/lbvGQehR6P1d5m

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bass EDIT: better gain-staging

2A http://minus.com/lwheDImTvsd6d
2B http://minus.com/lbtvW5ZRoNu0I6

bypassed at some point

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guitars EDIT better gain-staging

2A http://minus.com/l5lEOdCpjxfxy
2B http://minus.com/lUviNoj0PbE6x

edit 2: eq matched by ear:

3A http://minus.com/lDaBwfInfOzg2
3B http://minus.com/lioD2ZdxjZKih

bypassed at some point

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Matched gain-staging on guitars and bass. I'll redo drums and voz tomorrow.
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guitars

A - hardware
B - Waves

nice playing!!
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guitars

A - hardware
B - Waves

nice playing!!
Thanks for chiming in. Guitars and bass is Dublin band Frantica doing a fantastic job on this song.

more guitars added.
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I don't know, but:

A sounds better!
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results?
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Hi,
taking a guess, I would say for bass, drums and guitars, all A is the hardware EQ, all B is the plugins.

The vocal downloads don´t work for me unfortunately.

Results pleeeeze
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Quite different results from other polls I posted online.

A is Waves. B is SSL. I pushed them hard to see if the differences were more obvious.

I guess I deleted the vocals from my folder, sorry. I'll see if I have them on my DAW computer.
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Great thread
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Great thread
Many thanks. A much more interesting test on here: SSL x-rack eq and dynamics 4000 E series vs Waves

It includes the dynamics section so there you have your whole channel strip shootout.
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