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Sure, give us the classics, but put your own spin on it. We should encourage the developers we rely on to explore new grounds and push new boundaries. And if I’m feeling a bit disinterested in new models of the 1176, you can bet others are feeling it too.

I want something unheard of that’s an original idea. We have a ton of them, and they’re all good! I want something different. If that’s any indicator I’m sure your 1176’s will sound awesome!īut you can see why the 1176 is starting to feel a bit uninspired in the plugin world, to me at least (and I suspect I’m not alone).

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We, as an industry, want 1176’s! Why wouldn’t you put your version into the ring and see how it fairs in the market? Keep doing that! And to Overloud and PSP Audioware, I really hope you are successful with these additions to your product line! I use products from both of you, and from what I’ve experienced your products are nothing short of superb. This is not me throwing shade at any developer for creating a product to meet a demand. We’ve been down that road, show us something new! Or put your own spin on it in a unique way that makes it stand apart from being just another copy of something I already have.Ĭase in point, Overloud and PSP Audioware both just released brand new compressors. So you can see why I have trouble getting excited over another company releasing their own 1176 model. Even Steven Slate chimed in with his favorite uses of the various 1176’s in his own product line! 1176 plugins are in demand, and I don’t fault developers for answering that call.īut there are 1176 style compressors from most plugin developers, and it’s starting to feel kinda boring. The thread had over 70 responses in 10 hours, and counting. I recently asked the facebook “ Slate Audiophiles” group what their favorite 1176 plugins were. I do treat them like they were individual pieces of hardware, each with its own fingerprint. Personally, when I do end up with many versions of a similar piece of hardware in plugin form, I’ll throw them all on various sources and see which I prefer for different tasks. From there, you use Stillwell’s “The Rocket” in parallel on your drum shells, because why not? That’s 5 different models that many of us have access too, and each has its own flavor and character! Maybe we like the Slate Digital “FG-116″ on vocals, Slate Digital’s “Monster” (a slate “all buttons in” 1176) on the bass guitar, and Waves’s “CLA-76” on guitars, mixing between the black and blue versions to get different flavors. Maybe we can think of having many 1176 plugins models as being like having many flavors of the real hardware. And if you wanted to use ten 1176’s, you had to have ten 1176’s. It’s almost like having a lot of different hardware units, but in the digital realm! Actual hardware never responded the same as another identical unit, that’s just how hardware works.

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We have low cost ones, free ones, subscription ones, dsp ones, sonically neutral ones, models that react like the ones in famous mixer’s racks, and the list goes on and on.

The 1176 is a legend, solid as a rock, and no studio should be without one (even if it’s just a plugin version).īut as a plugin, we have so many versions of the 1176 that it’s starting to feel like an oversaturated market. We now have 1176 hardware models being built new by newer companies (such as the Warm Audio WA76), so that we can bring this classic back into studios in physical form without breaking the bank. The Universal Audio 1176LN is a classic, and deserves its standing as the one compressor you should get if you can only get one compressor. But today, we’re gonna talk about one piece of hardware that seems to be modeled more than most others.

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