Any Slate VCC Users?

Slate's VCC is half-price today. It received a great review in SOS recently. 
 
Anyone here using it with Sonar? 
 
How do you like it?

Use it.  Love it.

yorolpal


Use it.  Love it.

Myolpal knows we differ on this product . But for mastering I really suggest Slate's FG-X.

bapu

yorolpal


Use it.  Love it.

Myolpal knows we differ on this product . But for mastering I really suggest Slate's FG-X.

VCC is very subtle in its mastering effect.  I use it, but it is not dramatic.  

Bapu: What don't you like about the VCC?

"its sole aim is to mimic the subtle, non‑linear distortion and noise that you get when passing a fluctuating voltage through a complex arrangement of analogue components. According to Fabrice Gabriel, the noise is particularly important: “I found out that there was not only ‘one’ type of noise, that there was a lot of different behaviours in each console, and that the noise was not as static as we could believe.” I've no idea either.

Myolpal sez it is.

You might want to trust him more'n me.

Hi Dave, just listened to a few of your tunes & although you'd get decent results with FG-X  it's better suited for louder rock, R & B & metal. It doesn't play nice with soft/ quieter material.
I'd try the demo but I think you'd be better off with a more transparent limiter like FabFilter's Pro-L or the new Flux Elixir limiter.

By the way the VCC is a channel console emu, placed on channels & used more with mixing tracks in mind. It's not mastering software like FG-X although I use it in my mastering chain with great results.

Ya

Well.... I bit.  Getting thewhole deal (including iLok) for half-price was too good to pass up.  This will be my first experience using an iLok, so we'll see how that goes...  It's supposed to arrive within the next few days.  Should be fun playing around with the VCC this weekend!