Slate Digital vs Waves - Full Mix Breakdown

#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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