It has options like bias, tape speed, tape type, and more.

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I can never go over 3dB of gain reduction on the Slates without it crapping out.Slate Digital Virtual Mix Rack (VMR): VMR 2.0 allows audio engineers to easily create the channel strips of their dreams using a library full of analog modeled plugins. I don't care about the technical aspects of what was or wasn't modeled fully, Slates 1176s sound 'cheap and digital' compared to UADs 1176. anyway, since this thread I've done more extensive listening tests and my ears really love UAD compression. If I had 20 cores of UAD I would probably not have my Slate subscription, but Slate sure does the job when you run out of UAD DSPĮDIT: I was Testing with the AE version and it seems to have clean output, but the A does indeed add harmonics. authentic.Īs I said, I do like slate on the individual tracks, lightly compressing as in kissing the needle to straighten out stray dynamics, and UAD doing the heavy lifting on auxes and the master Having said that, I do find slates 1176's a little 'heavy handed' and quite colored compared to UADs and my ears do prefer UAD's sound. Now I am no electrical engineer, nor do I have a real 1176 to test, nor I am sure if this even matters, but that's what I get from a sine wave test!

Do the same with a slate black or vintage blue 76 and the output saturates, dare I say (too?) hyped! Then boost the output, you will notice that the harmonics will increase in amplitude proportionally, thus pointing to a completely clean output stage. you'll see it start to add all kinds of nice harmonics. I kinda agree with Slate on this one Load up a 1kHz Sine wave and an analyzer and boost the input of a UAD 1176.

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