Slate Virtual Console

Question,

I have an opportunity to buy the Slate VCC at a highly reduced price...

Opinions of???

I really like it. To me it gives it a little flavor of the consoles I like. Yes you should use it on every track and the buses. But I have had people turn their heads on my new mixes and ask how I got that sound. I just smile and say it is my console! ;) I was looking at getting the lunchbox with the API and other sounds I am glad I didn't and picked up this great plug. Just nice added sound to it, like a vibe.

Sound on Sound reviewed it here, and sing its praises to the skies. http://www.soundonsound.c...articles/slate-vcc.htm

For my taste it really is quite subtle. 

I really could not tell that much of a difference there either...

Another option is Sknote's StripBus:  http://www.sknote.it/StripBus.htm

I've been using it for a month now and like it quite a bit.  The developer, Quinto, has been very responsive and has released several patches that have added greater functionality and features at a very regular rate.

Like others, it is a two part product, one that is put on your channel tracks and another on your master bus.

StripBus console bundle
 

StripBus is a full console emulation bundle. It includes two plugins:

• Strip - a channel strip emulation with filters, metering and inter-channel ducking
• Bus - a stereo bus emulation with stereo bus compressor and special sidechain

Main features are:

• multiple emulations
• inter-channel interaction (emulates the console as a whole)
• special filters with dynamic behaviour
• inter-channel ducking
• bypass-all menu for fast wet-dry comparison (bypasses all plugin instances from a single menu)
• peak and VU metering
• stereo bus compressor
• sample aligned parallel compression
• gain reduction limiting ("range")
• low frequencies preservation algorithm
• high frequencies preservation algorithm
• special continuous mid-side compression mode
• 4x oversampling for nice transients

NEW in Strip v.2

• inter-track crosstalk (models the crosstalk from every track to other ones)
• stereo crosstalk
• background noise
• two new console models (C Solid state and D Tube)
• better mono/stereo management
• lower cpu load
• new multi-mode filters, with new parallel equalizer
• new large, calibrated VU-peak meter
• global extra-headroom control (manage global "stress" from a single instance)
• eight desks (grouping) available
• Available as Win32/64 VST, Mac 32/64 VST/AU and soon RTAS

  
You can find a lengthy thread about it over at Gearslutz: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/product-alerts-older-than-2-months/614316-sknote-presents-stripbus.html

I can't compare it to VCC as I never used VCC but there are quite a few options for console emulation at a variety of price points out there.

VCC is class but yes it is subtle.  You really have to zero faders and do a mix with it engaged.  When you disable it and compare your mix with and without you defo miss it.

Anyway if its good enough for SOS...   

carl


Another choice you'll have is Waves NLS (non linear summing ) which will be their next release.
Not sure sure when but should be soon, a week or two.

BTW I prefer VCC over Sominus, not quite the same animal although it was designed after & to emulate VCC.

How you know that? I didn't found any info on Waves site...

I have the VCC...and yes it's subtle.....and this is why I think so.....if anyone has tracked through a Neve, Trident, API, etc. preamp, the so called "iron" in the transformers is what's giving you that "color".........to be able to add that sound after the fact with a VST emulation.....I think this type of plug has a ways to go, personally.....it's not the same as tracking through the hardware, imo