#Ssl 4000 collection series#
Mike Hillier of Metropolis Studios, London still uses the 4000G series that’s in Studio B. The EQ was considered harsh in comparison to the Neves and Tridents of the day, while others loved the brightness of the desk, which was out of keeping with the ‘tweed’ of SSL’s competitors. Like any desk, the SSL had its own unique sonic character – one that delighted some and offended others. It wasn’t long before the SSL became a ubiquitous feature in the world’s recording studios. This new-found functionality delighted record companies and producers alike, as tracks could be recorded and mixed, and the mix settings saved and then revisited later if the A&R man thought the lead vocal needed a further nudge, for instance. Every channel had its own compressor and noise gate, and the centre panel that housed the VDU and QWERTY keyboard enabled you to take a snapshot of the desk to be recalled at a later stage, by carefully matching the settings on the desk to those stored on the eight-inch floppy disks that were used by the first E series computers. The SSL was radically different from anything that had gone before. Nick Robbins of Sound Mastering, London recalls seeing an SSL for the first time: “I went to an APRS show at Earls Court in the early 80s and visited the SSL stand: it was like stepping onto the bridge of the Starship Enterprise!” In the mid-70s they’d come up with the idea of using a computer to automate the desk that they’d designed and built for Acorn, and this led to the launch of the first SSL 4000B series at the Paris AES show in 1977. The seeds of the total recall and automation that we now take for granted were sown at Solid State Logic’s own staff recording facility, Acorn Studios.
The SSL desk fundamentally changed the working practices of nearly everyone working in the mainstream music industry from the 1980s.
With the Waves SSL 4000 Collection, the classic SSL 4000 sound can now be yours.ġ.) Place your order right here on .nzģ.When business-savvy Colin Sanders and his original partner Paul Bamborough started their business developing electronic control systems for pipe organs in churches, they couldn’t possibly have foreseen their incredible influence on the recording process – and the sound of a period in music-making that you either love or hate. Of all these consoles, the SSL 4000 may be the most famous. SSL’s reputation for hit-making sound is unsurpassed, having been used on hit recordings by Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Sia and hundreds of others. in 1969, Solid State Logic currently has over 3,000 SSL consoles in active use around the world. With the EQ and dynamics of the vintage SSL mixers at your fingertips, you can now give your mixes the SSL sound of the big studios.įounded in the U.K. These plugins sound so close to the original consoles, even experts who work with SSL boards day in and day out can’t tell the difference.
#Ssl 4000 collection license#
Developed under license from Solid State Logic, the SSL 4000 Collection includes four plugins meticulously modeled on the legendary SSL 4000 mixing consoles: SSL E-Channel, G-Channel, G-Equalizer and G-Master Buss Compressor.
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