The compressor’s gain reduction meters are fitted to the classic SSL console range and displayed in dBu rather than in dBFS. The SSL G-Master Bus Compressor plug-in is modeled after the renowned SSL G Series stereo bus compressor. This four-band equaliser offers marginally greater gain change than the E-Series EQ, and each EQ offers a slightly different equalization curve. The SSL G-Equaliser functions much like the E-Series EQ in Waves’ SSL E-Channel, so it is very easy to move back and forth between these two equalisers. The SSL G-Equaliser is modeled after the rack-mounted version of SSL’s G 292 EQ. The Waves SSL G-Channel is modeled after the SL4000 G Series console, combining the dynamics section of the SL4000 channel strip with the 383 G EQ. The Waves SSL E-Channel is modeled after the SL4000 E Series console, combining the dynamics section of the SL4000 channel strip with the “Black Knob” 242 EQ. Plus, the interface accurately reflects the classic SSL console. These processors faithfully recreate the same EQ and dynamics characteristics which made legendary the SL4000 consoles.

Waves and SSL engineers have worked together for over a year to recreate the sound characteristics of the classic SSL 4000 Series E and G Series consoles. Both consoles had Total Recall enabling console settings (and hence mixes) to be recalled & remade with a high degree of accuracy. Sarm East had a 40-channel console with remote patchbay and automation with 8' floppy drives. Eden had a 48-channel console with integral patch and automation using 8' floppy drives.

Possibly the earliest 4000E console was at RG Jones in London, closely followed by Eden Studios and Sarm Studios. The big breakthrough came with the introduction of the SL 4000 E Series in 1979. He also started Acorn Studios in the village of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, where he lived, and made – and used - consoles for it. The company’s first products were switching systems for pipe organs which used FET switching and multiplexed communication between the keyboard and the electro-mechanics of the pipes and Colin coined the phrase Solid State Logic as a descriptor. For those of you who may not have been around back in the 1970s, Solid State Logic was founded in 1969 by the late Colin Sanders CBE.

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