Slate Digital vs Waves - Full Mix Breakdown
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- #slatedigital #waves #mixing
Slate Digital and Waves are two plugin companies with fantastic and unique offerings; Slate Digital takes the vintage emulation approach to a whole new level with their Virtual Mix Rack, whilst Waves would say they have a plugin for every occasion.
Here I take you through an entire mix from start to finish using Slate Digital plugins, whilst Lee Batiuk takes you through his approach using Waves plugins.
I was so surprised by just how similar these mixes sounded. Lee is a fantastic mix engineer and has several chart credits to his name and recored this track superbly. It just goes to show how important the recording and arrangement part of the prcoess is. With the the right tools you get take a fantastic recording to the next level with a great mix, but which do you prefer and why?
0:00 - Intro
2:20 - Final Mix Comparison
3:04 - Waves Master Bus
4:14 - CLA Mixdown Magic
7:58 - Slate Digital Master Bus
10:54 - Virtual Mix Rack Saturation Goodness
15:21 - Waves Drum Mixing
40:36 - Rocking Rooms with SSL EV2 and F6
42:21 - Slate Digital Drum Mixing
52:02 - Bright Rooms with Verbsuite Classics
1:02:43 - Waves Guitar Mixing
1:09:43 - Adding Prettiness with Reel ADT
1:13:56 - Slate Digital Guitar Mixing
1:17:21 - Lifting A Sheet Off Guitars with FG-A
1:22:27 - Waves Bass Guitar Mixing
1:25:26 - Taming Woofiness with F6
1:27:40 - Slate Digital Bass Guitar Mixing
1:30:22 - Grinding Distortion with TH-U Slate
1:34:21 - Waves Keys and Strings Mixing
1:36:20 - Taking Your Head Off with Scheps-73
1:44:32 - Slate Digital Keys and Strings Mixing
1:47:38 - Brightening Strings with VMR
1:49:37 - Waves Vocal Mixing
1:54:28 - Adding Thickness with Scheps Parallel Particles
2:08:25 - Backing Vocal Brilliance with Reel ADT
2:14:02 - Slate Digital Vocal Mixing
2:19:21 - Vocal Delay Presets with Repeater
2:22:36 - Final Thoughts
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This was awesome. Your channel is a hidden gem.
Thanks so much, I appreciate it! 😀 seems to be growing all the time.
Both mixes are amazing, I’ve learnt so much in just one video
Great to hear!
I can’t thank you enough for this very useful and great video.
You are indeed a life saver boss. Thanks a lot.
Glad you liked it! I have another one coming up in a few weeks that’s in a similar vein, so make sure you keep an eye on the channel 👌
very good video, I learnt a lot from both of you
Thanks Dave 🤘
Great content thanks guys!
Thanks for watching! 🙂
More people need to know this... U gave us lot of knowledge ✨😋
Fantastic! Thanks 🙏
Thanks for checking it out! 👌
Loved this video, both of your approaches are great and a lot to learn from both of you.. and dayummm can the guy sing.. while listening to the full mix there lacks a small transition or buildup into the first chorus
Thanks for watching, Daniel. He’s got a killer voice for sure!
Awe man. Yall should have let me join this challenge. I would have used studio one with stock and free virtual plugins.
😀 next time 😉
could be the next video ;)
OMG finally i get this video!! thank a lott! i learn so much!!.
Next Plugin alliance vs T-racks or SSL PLSSSSS
Plugin Alliance 🤔 There's a thought!
@@SamLooselets gooo
@@SamLoose I love Plugin Alliance. I like Waves too. But Plugin Alliance is my go-to. So happy they FINALLY got the bug fixed. For a while, it was crashing Logic if you used their plugins with Ventura as your OS.
Loved this. I'm more of a Waves guy than a Slate guy. But I'm also a Logic guy. So between the two of you, I got something close to my own approach.
One thing I realized after listening to this. I'm not adding nearly enough space to my drums. Your drums sounded like they were in an enormous space. I know it depends on the genre of music, but I think your approach would work for the stuff I'm doing.
Great to hear. Totally depends on the track, but I think this one definitely needed some space around them 👌
@ 1:52:40 i'm pretty sure the CLA-76 was the one introducing the noise because you had the analog button on 😥😥 hahaha anyways amazing video, its great to see the difference between styles of mixing and how you can shape the sound using different plugins.. thank you so much for this video!
Quite possibly! I’m yet to find a use for that button other than to create problems…But thanks for watching 😃 Take care.
holy snare batman +1 LEE
👌 Lee can make drums slam with the best of them.
Thanks, mate. 🤙🏼
This is long but a great video
Great video Sam! I'm stealing your presets and knowledge
Glad you liked it! Steal away, we’re all friends here 😀
Do u have any mix n master tempalets... ?
I definaly Prefer Slate........Slate Virtual mix rack....best Digital Plugins...hands down......I use Acustica Audio and Nebula with my own Analog Gear...but on the go mixes.....Slate Digital...on my Labtop...still my goto
Personally, I think Bomber was too much for the mix. I much prefer it without it. Or at least, I would probably use it on with Intensity at 25% or, perhaps, a different algorithm (tight?)
Meeeh!
😃
I would really love to hear or see this with hip hop/rap music... I don't mix rock
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why is Lee jokingly disowning his use of Fab Pro-Q2? also, what song is this, the singer kills it
Because it doesn’t fit into the Slate vs Waves scenario. We were allowed the odd wildcard though 😉
@@SamLooseohhh duh 😅
Why did you use two different passages in the beginning for comparison?
It’s just the next part in the song 👍
@@SamLoose Of course, I understood this, so they can't be compared.
I don’t think it matters that it’s not the same 4 bars. It’s the same song, same chorus, just the next section. It’s just a comparison to demonstrate the differences. If it were the same 4 bars it would have sounded a little abrupt to loop back round and instead of a comment asking why it’s not the same 4 bars, I’d have comments asking me why it was 🙂
@@SamLoose different rhythms, instruments and energy
@gleebaz are we talking about the same part here? The comparisons at 2:20 that are consecutive parts of the same chorus?