It allows you to choose whether you want 16th, 8th or triplet delays and so on, and choose the delay settings for the left and right channel independently of each other. It is simply laid out and can automatically sync with the tempo as set in your DAW. In keeping with Slate’s seeming attempt to make each plugin the ‘only plugin you’ll ever need’, the Repeater does many flavors of delay including oil-can, tape and digital. This reverb can basically take care of my digital sounding reverb needs – and it’s is nice to have it all within one plugin, rather than jumping back and forth between various plugins as I used to do.įor delay I tend towards the vintage, loving the gritty deteriorating sound of a good tape delay from an Echoplex to a Roland RE201 to a Watkins Copicat. The impulse response technology used in this plugin seems to be able to capture modulation characteristics of the reverbs, which many IR based reverbs cannot do.
With all of the reverbs you can alter the decay time, pre-delay, attack and chorus to taste while keeping the flavour. I still like to have a few plugins that can take care of sounds such as springs and plates to augment this (Though the ‘London Plate’ in the Bricasti M7 section is a respectable EMT 140 emulation). As such it covers most of the bases that you could want in your reverbs much as if you had access to the original units. The Verbsuite Classics Reverb is an impulse response-based reverb that offers configurable presets based on several classic and contemporary hardware reverbs from the Lexicon 480 to the EMT 250 to the Bricasti M7. It is a minor pity that Slate chose not to add a low-pass filter to go with the high-pass ones, though I rarely use high-pass filters except as an extreme effect, and have other filter plugins I can use for this. These two EQs will cover most of your musical needs without talking your head away from the bigger picture, but they are not for more surgical applications such as notching out troublesome frequencies – but chances are your DAW has a fully parametric EQ built in for these occasional applications. You can even drive this EQ to add an extra layer of that classic Neve saturation. The FG-N EQ is obviously based on a Neve 1073 and has much the same functions – a more coloured and aggressive EQ than the SSL, but with very well chosen bands and Q widths that seem to suit everything you put through it, from adding shine with its top band to clearing up mud with its high-pass filter. It is a great EQ that makes it easy to reach musical bands to cut and boost and do so transparently. There FG-S EQ is based on the SSL E-series EQ – familiar to anyone used to mixing with the original console or the Waves SSL plugin. Rather than review every single plugin that comes with the Everything Bundle, I will stick to those that provide the basic everyday effects that I use in mixing and save reviews of the other effects, such as the S-Gear amp simulation for another time. I have recently finished mixing an album with this new setup and am pleased with the results. This sounded good to me, so I signed up to their one-month trial, liked it and am now almost all-Slate.
#SSL VS NEVE ON SLATE DIGITAL VMR UPDATE#
Slate would update the plugins as time went on, new plugins would be added as developed and I would never be left hanging. Instead of paying 200 for a reverb, and 200 for an EQ and so on - I could simply pay a monthly subscription of $14.99 and get access to all of Slate Digital’s plugins for not much more than the cost of Netflix. My goal was to use some good solid plugins for these workhorse effects that would satisfy me and stop me wasting time trawling the internet for more.Īt was then that I hit on Slate Digital's revolutionary new subscription-based plugin model. I felt I could comfortably start again with whatever plugins were best in 2017, and hoped to replace the confusing bundles of plugins I had amassed over the years with a few simple, high-quality and reasonably-priced ones that would cover the basics: EQ, compression, reverb and delay. My old mixing computer finally gave up the ghost in the middle of last year, so I was faced with the task of setting up a whole new system for mixing on. A highly recommended all-in-one solution which could well be the future of plugins.
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