Plugin Boutique are offering 82% off the Solid State Logic SSL & Harrison Consoles Mastering Bundle for a limited time, now only £33.50 / $42.24, (usually £188.99 / $238.32). The offer end December 11th.
SSL and Harrison bring together studio legends from Oxford and Nashville with the Mastering Plug-in Bundle – featuring the Harrison Mastering EQ and SSL X-ValveComp plug-ins.
AVA Mastering EQ
The AVA Mastering EQ is explicitly designed for the task of mastering your mixes. When 2 adjacent bands of the AVA-MtE are adjusted, the resultant curve is “flat” across the band edges, rather than discrete humps and valleys. The resulting curves are perfectly suited for the broad, musical changes needed for final tone-control while retaining the harmonic balance between the elements of your mix. Managing a powerful full-range EQ has never been so fast and easy. The results are quintessentially “Harrison”: effortless, smooth and transparent.
The AVA-ME has 31 control bands ranging from 20hz to 20kHz and increasing by ⅓ octave increments. By default, the scale shows +/-4dB, but if you increase a band beyond 4dB, the scale will increase to show the changes up to +/-14 dB.
The AVA-ME is most easily controlled by clicking and dragging the mouse across the frequency spectrum. You can also point your mouse at a control band or the output trim and increase the gain by dragging up/down or by using the scroll function on your mouse or touchpad. You can right-click and drag to reset bands to zero and hold shift while dragging the mouse to smooth any unwanted bumps between adjacent curves. (These options are indicated in the bottom-right corner of the plugin window). All controls have a “fine” mode which can be accessed by holding Control or Command while adjusting the control.
By default, AVA-ME shows a +/-4dB scale. If you increase a band beyond this value, the scaling will automatically increase to accommodate your moves.
You can also click and drag the left or right dB scale to manually adjust the displayed scale.
If you manually set the scale, then a “lock” icon will appear at the lower-left corner of the EQ display. Click the “lock” icon to disengage the manual lock, and allow the AVA-ME to automatically set the scaling for you.
Output Trim – The “Trim” control adjusts the output level. Double-click the control to reset it to 0dB.
The AVA-ME has high-pass and low-pass filters with a gentle slope. The slope is selectable between 6dB/Oct and 12dB/Oct, and the frequency can be adjusted using the sliders above and below the curve.
SSL Native X-ValveComp
X-ValveComp is a fully-featured mono or stereo channel compressor with a full set of classic channel compressor controls and an added ‘valve’ emulation stage. The valve emulation stage sits after the compressor in the signal path and adds a variable degree of primarily 2nd order harmonic saturation and distortion that thickens and colours the sound.
The compressor can be switched between Peak or RMS modes and has a full set of controls including; Threshold, Ratio, Knee, Attack, Release and Hold. There are Input and Output Meters with separate kick down compression amount indication and Input and Output Level controls. There’s a Gain Make Up control and switched Auto Gain Make Up mode.
A dedicated wet/dry mix control facilitates parallel compression. Side Chain input, high and low pass filters can be used to trigger compression. X-ValveComp can be automated via standard DAW Automation data and has A&B Preset ‘slots’ with an A/B switch for easy comparison of two different combinations of settings.
The Solid State Logic SSL & Harrison Consoles Mastering Bundle is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX and requires an iLok account).
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