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However, the variety of plug-ins in the Liquid Mix (plus the promise of more) and its lower price will make it a more appealing proposition for many users. What's more, Duende seems to offer slightly smoother transitions between settings.
Both offer stunning emulations of classic hardware, but the interface and overall power of the SSL is better. However, it's hard to say which would win a fight between this or Focusrite's Liquid Mix. We'd like to be able to surprise you in these closing lines, but we have to say that Duende is one of the most sublime sounding and ergonomically beautiful items you could add to your studio. Another potential source of frustration is that only one Duende can be used at a time, and there's no provision for adding expansion DSP packs.
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If you run the first version of the software, you get glitches galore when this feature is in use, and even with the v1.1 update installed, it still only bounces at real-time speed.
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One slightly irritating quirk, though, is that Duende doesn't seem to like offline bouncing. Besides, given that this is a mixing tool, latency shouldn't really be a problem - providing you don't call on Duende until you've finished recording, that is. Whenever you put audio equipment on a FireWire bus, you run the risk of latency problems, but we didn't experience much trouble in this area, even with Duende daisy-chained after a Focusrite Liquid Mix. When you alter a parameter, the action is so stunningly smooth that you'll probably spend five minutes staring at the screen just twisting knobs and pushing buttons before you even think about doing anything practical with them. The GUIs are beautifully rendered - complete with shadows and perspective - and you sometimes feel like you're leaning over real hardware. Fantastic plugin.One aspect of the Duende plug-ins that can't be overlooked is their appearance and feel. While I didn't actually pay for this plugin myself, now that I've used it, I would gladly pay for it if I had to. I actually prefer the UAD 1176 for this task, but this is a great alternative. Then slowly blend it in with the dry drums and it sounds great. For this purpose, I would set it for some radical compression with like 12-15 db of compression for a real crunched sound. I have also had some success using this as parallel compression on a drum group. When set with a low 2:1 ratio, 30ms attack time, Auto release, and about 4db of reduction and makeup, it perfectly brings all of the instrumentation (guitars, keys, etc.) and vocals up around the individual drum hits on a rock mix for a very powerful and cohesive sound. I normally don't put a compressor on my main mix, but this compressor is like a magic glue. I usually don't hit it very hard, usually only three or four DB again reduction with the necessary makeup gain afterwards. I use it across the main outputs of my mix, and a lot of times on the drum subgroup.
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I chose the G series bus compressor and the console channel strip plug-ins for my free plug-ins. After the first round of testing, those lucky enough to be selected for beta testing were given one free plug-in each.
I was lucky enough to be selected for two different rounds of beta testing for the SSL Duende Native plug-ins.
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