The compressor on the E Channel is very handy and easily dialed in, as is the on board gate/expander. The EQ in the E Channel is very aggressive, almost adding a hint of pleasant distortion when the highs or mids are pushed.
All that bite and color that I never had was instantly there.
After installing the bundle I opened up a session that was waiting for me to mix and slapped a few E Channels on the Kick and Snare top channels, and fell in love. I decided to pull the trigger and buy the 4000 bundle out of frustration, not that my mixes were not good, but they never had the flavor that I was looking for. SSL 4000's have an aggressive quality that in my opinion nothing else has, And thats where the waves bundle comes in. The only thing that I can think to call it is "bite". Having been a studio owner for about 7 years now and having a good number of my mixes commercially released, it has always frustrated me that I could never get "that sound". And it never fails, if in the first 30 seconds I think "wow that sounds good", it is almost always mixed by someone like Ben Grosse, or CLA who use an SSL. Like so many other people that are into music production, when I buy a CD (yes it sounds better than iTunes so I still do it), the first thing I do is pop it in my car stereo and read the liner notes while listening to the first few songs.
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