Softube Summit Audio Grand Channel

This one has some good reviews and sounds promising. Anybody bought or demoed this thing? It sounds like it does the job very well. Is it on par with FabFilter?

The channel strip that always works. Take any track, any bus or any mix - the Summit Audio Grand Channel always sounds right. The Grand Channel combines the warm and smooth tone sculpting EQF-100 passive equalizer with the rich sounding and dead-easy-to-use TLA-100A compressor. As a modern addition to the classic TLA-100A, the plug-in also includes Parallel Compression, Saturation Control and Low Cut Filtering on input or detector. These two pieces of classic Summit Audio gear are what professional sound engineers have used for more than two decades to make their mixes sound just right. When the EQF-100 and TLA-100A were designed, Summit Audio made sure to combine the finest of what vintage tube designs had to offer with a modern sense of how these units should stand the test of time. The result was remarkable, and today you can experience the Summit Audio grandeur in digital form, just reach for the Grand Channel!


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The product may be excellent, but no "channel strip" is going to do better than high-quality individual plugins. It's just slightly more convenient to drop a single plugin into the fx bin.

And I'm sure you're aware that despite Softube's advertising copy, there are no vacuum tubes in a DLL.

The eq has really sweet highs end he TLA-100A is one of the top levelling comp plugins you'll find.
A great combo for vox, sax, drums buss, mix buss. Also great for strings/ orchestral use too.

You don't need to stick it on every channel or specifically as a channel strip, that's a feature. You can also use the eq or comp as separate instances with or without the strip design.