It's not just the analog emulations. McDSP are IMO among the leading experts at recreating the dynamics results of revered vintage units while not needing upsampling, and minimizing CPU.ritesofspring wrote: Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:06 am They're on sale at the moment - is it worth getting the 6050 Channel Strip? Really just want to get most of my analog emulation needs out of the way, and for 40€/60€ HD (is HD worth it?) it seems really convenient
I think it's a math game, inventing little clever algorithms that get to the same results without any of the fancy virtual recreation of hardware internal components. Black Rooster and many others design the entire circuit. McDSP sits there looking at the thing as a math puzzle and spend months fiddling with calculations until they nail a minimalist algorithm that sounds right.
Here is a test of 1176 using ~Dr Pepper settings (matched quickly by ear):
https://clyp.it/5yh3xtik
That's McDSP 6050 SST 77 vs BRA VLA-FET, doing 15db+ GR at the peaks, so they are being pushed pretty hard. (original at the end for comparison).
Personally, I like the McDSP better in this test. Notice the word "busted", the BRA turns it into an unnatural plosive, while McDSP doesn't suffer of that problem. The "ohs" would be tough on any compressor, I'm making them do near 20db, but they are both usable, a hardware unit would not fare much better pushed liked this.
So overall, McDSP here is at least holding its own (if not winning). And it's doing it with near 10x less CPU, and 0 latency.
IMO, there is always a place in the arsenal for the McDSP 6050. It's a strip that sounds fantastic for the tiny bit of resources it wants, so you can use it in your projects with abandon.
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