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SSL X-Echo + Harrison AVA Spectral Compressor Bundle
SSL Native X-Echo
Vintage tape echo inspired by the sound of definitive early tape delay hardware of the 1960s. Vintage tape delay, advanced SSL workflow.
SSL Native X-Echo is a plug-in inspired by early tape delay hardware from the '60s and '70s, while introducing SSL's signature sound and brought up-to-date with advanced workflow.
X-Echo is your vibe machine, adding the gloriously warm sound of vintage tape to your recordings, sessions and even jams. Soft compression, hiss and the well-known gradual degradation of tape have all been meticulously modelled and combined with SSL's renowned console-style saturation and LF/HF EQ. In addition to advanced waveform visualisation, built-in 'DE-ESSER' and delay 'WIDTH' control, X-Echo features a brand-new SSL reverb design: Capable of subtle space to the richest of plates, all the way to a reverb tail which can fill a canyon, all via the single-knob 'DIFFUSION' control.
Able to effortlessly deliver traditional tape delay effects like swirling echoes and classic slap back, X-Echo is also capable of more contemporary creative delays commonly found in electronic music, and of course can be driven to self-oscillation via 'FEEDBACK' or add creative swells via 'FREEZE' and 'KILL'.
Key Features
- 4 switch-able tape heads for adding variation
- Tape-style analogue degradation with classic SSL-style distortion characteristics using the ‘Wow & Flutter’ and ‘Saturation’
- Models classic characteristics of hardware tape echo devices, including the looping EQ, soft clipping, gentle tape hiss and self-oscillation
- WOW & FLUTTER emulates the effect of mechanical components, as well as the friction of the tape itself
- FREEZE and KILL to build risers and drops
- DIFFUSION control, featuring a brand new reverb design
- Built-in DE-ESSER for controlling the sibilant frequencies that tape echoes often accentuate.
- Unique interface and waveform visualisation
- Cleverly stereoises mono signals
- Built on the SSL Plug-in Engine
“The X-Echo plugin is really versatile, with the built-in saturation, diffusion control and EQ, and the automatable Freeze and Kill switches. I use it all the time!”
Adrian Hall (Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, Depeche Mode and many others)
AVA Spectral Compressor
Harrison’s reputation for “True Analog In-The-Box” sound is due to our unique development heritage: we first created an analog console processor and then converted the processor to digital while retaining the sound and character of the original analog system.
The AVA Spectral Compressor (AVA-SC for short) is a dynamics processor that allows you to apply compression selectively across 18 frequency bands. These compression bands can either be spread out across the full range of the spectrum or focused on a specific frequency range for more precise control.
The AVA Spectral Compressor includes the following features:
?? Master Threshold control
?? Frequency Range selection
?? Band Depth controls
?? Gain Reduction graph
?? Compressor Knee
?? Output Trim
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