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hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:28 am

looks like something from "dark city"

Shy · Post by **Shy** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:34 am

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:Gyraf do a great clone/just as good as the real deal.

I don't know about "as good", but I know it doesn't sound like the real deal.

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:50 pm

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:Gyraf do a great clone/just as good as the real deal.

GSSL is an interpretation of the SSL G-4000 series bus compressor. It takes several important shortcuts compared to the original and doesn't quite sound like it (I won't partake in the better or worse debate). It can be modified to be just about an exact clone, but it's not trivial. If someone is skilled enough to do that, chances are they wouldn't care about some SSL clone in the first place.

cyphersuit · Post by **cyphersuit** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:45 pm

anybody tried the new channel plugin?

penguinfromdeep · Post by **penguinfromdeep** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:03 pm

cyphersuit wrote:anybody tried the new channel plugin?

Yes, bought it since the upgrade was cheap for me (already owned the compressor) .. The eq sounds very very smooth even with large boosts or cuts, I kind of can't even 'hear' the eq if that makes any sense

The compressor is good too, again it's hard to make it sound bad actually with almost any setting and source! And having them together in a channel is great. I think it's really great on natural and acoustic sources (like vox, guitars) because it's so smooth. But I've ussed it mainly in electronic music where it works too. It takes quite a bit of cpu when both eq and compressor are engaged but the sound is definitely worth it.

cyphersuit · Post by **cyphersuit** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:11 pm

penguinfromdeep wrote: It takes quite a bit of cpu when both eq and compressor are engaged but the sound is definitely worth it.

this is like, kind of a turn off for me, really. well, i guess, i will save this money towards buying the waves ssl bundle. many people swear on it.

Mercado_Negro · Post by **Mercado_Negro** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:49 pm

cyphersuit wrote:
penguinfromdeep wrote: It takes quite a bit of cpu when both eq and compressor are engaged but the sound is definitely worth it.
this is like, kind of a turn off for me, really. well, i guess, i will save this money towards buying the waves ssl bundle. many people swear on it.

The Grand Channel uses almost 6.0% of CPU here @96kHz/512 buffer size. Now, if I use each plug-in separately, which is exactly the same, they both use almost 3.8%. It's very low on CPU in my opinion.

Core i5 750
4GB RAM
Windows 7 64bit
REAPER 32bit/64bit

cyphersuit · Post by **cyphersuit** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:51 am

can you compare for example mixcontrol pro and waves ssl strip to the 6% the grand channel uses? that would be tops.

Ah Xoc Kin · Post by **Ah Xoc Kin** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 1:55 am

Rough CPU numbers from Activity Monitor:
DSP-Quattro 9%
With Mix Control Pro 48%
With Grand Channel 59%

OS X 10.7.4
Mac Mini 2GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB RAM

HTH

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