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so waves just released a new plug-in of

an older plug-in

but they're selling it as a new plug-in

this new plug-in is called ev2 and it's

just a better model of the ssl 4000 e

console and by better model that

typically means that it's more cpu

intensive but that's not necessarily a

bad thing because it probably will sound

closer to the real thing so in today's

video i'm going to walk you through all

the features and some of the new

additions that waves has added to the

ev2 and we're going to compare it to the

two older waze plug-ins which is the ssl

e-channel and ssl g-channel and i'll

also demonstrate this ev2 plug-in on a

few different sources so you can get a

good sense if this is worth it for you

and because i'm a scientist and a total

nerd about this stuff we're going to

look underneath the hood of all three of

these plugins so you can see exactly

what the differences are and if you're

curious there are some big differences

so be sure to stick with me all the way

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description okay so let's take a look at

these three different waves ssl plugins

we'll start with the e channel in the g

channel just so you get an idea of what

was there originally so that when we

look at the ev2 the newest plugin that

they just released you'll have an idea

of what the differences are and if it's

worth the upgrade so on the left you

have the e channel which you can see

right here and then also the g channel

so the e series compressor was actually

released by ssl on the 80s

and what made this so special was that

this was the first console to ever have

a compressor on every single channel so

i'm blaming this for the loudness war

then several years later they came out

with the g channel which was the

predecessor of the e channel so the idea

behind the g channel is that everything

is a little bit more precise the eqs

actually become more narrow as you boost

them so that'll keep the overall energy

about the same even though you're

boosting or cutting a lot more of very

specific frequencies on the e series so

the original the filter bandwidth stays

the same so it's really good for genres

that have a lot more space to them like

pop hip-hop r b that kind of stuff g

series tends to have a little bit more

mid-range to it a little bit more chunk

to it if that makes sense so it's great

for like a more raw rock sound so these

plugins basically have very similar

layouts they have a filters section in

this top left corner on both plugins

they have the eq section below that

and they both then have a dynamic

section with with the compressor and

then also

an expander or a gate if you push this

button

and then it has uh some other various

features like analog which i think just

adds noise and then this input gain

there's a polarity inversion button here

and then here's your output fader volume

so where are these plugins different so

let's talk about that first of all

these filters are exactly the same in

both of the plugins and how do we know

that

we know that because we can use a tool

called plug-in doctor to

read out what is happening under the

hood of these plugins okay

so if we set these back to full reset

okay and we adjust the filter let's put

this to 80 hertz put them both to 80.

okay here's the cutoff filter that we

see for the e channel let's do the same

for the g channel it's exactly

on top of each other okay we can do the

same thing with this high pass filter

so let's put these both at like 5k

and

you can see they're exactly on top of

each other so we know these are pretty

much identical okay the filtering is the

same now let's look at the different

shelving

shapes because they're very very

different okay if we look at the e

channel we boost this up okay we add 5

db here

we have this very gentle curve and then

we have this roll off right around uh

14k

let's take a look at the g channel what

does that look like

we put it up to 5 db

we get this

almost like a pultec style eq shelf okay

so let's let's hide the e channel for a

second so you can see there's this dip

now before the shelf

so that's really interesting something

else that's interesting is that these

are both set to 5 db

and what we see is

the e channel goes way higher on the e

channel we also have an option to change

both the shelves to bell shapes

um same with this low frequency band so

if we don't necessarily want a shelf you

can push this bell and now you have

access to

um a bell shape which is really handy if

you want to maybe just enhance uh just

the kick drum without affecting like the

bass guitar or something on the g

channel we don't have that option

these are permanently stuck as shelves

okay so if you boost this up

there's no way to turn these into bells

so

what they've done on the g channel to

give you access to these low frequencies

or these really high frequencies is they

added this hmf times three and this lmf

divided by three button and what and

what these do and it's kind of

counterintuitive because it's in the hf

channel but if you click this it

actually will multiply the frequencies

in the

hmf the high middle frequency band

by three okay so what does that look

like let's put these back to zero

so if we boost up let's let's say we'll

do yeah we'll do 1k

okay so let's boost this by 5 db if you

choose this hmf times 3 it's going to

multiply this 1k by 3 so it should shift

this to 3k which it does for the most

part okay

but this allows us to access

frequencies higher than what we were

limited limited to right here so 7k is

the max now we can go all the way up to

21k in theory

so same thing it's just kind of the

opposite occurs down here

um if you engage this button now any

frequency in this band is divided by

three so we can go lower than the

limitation of this band which is 200

hertz

so if we go to 200 hertz here and we

boost this up and let's get rid of this

now we can divide this frequency by

three by pushing this button so now we

can go even lower okay so we can go all

the way down to about 50 hertz which is

really nice let's take a look at

how the filter shapes change between the

e-channel and the g-channel plug-in so

let's boost these all by 6db

and then let's make the queue as tight

as it possibly can go

so you can see the differences in the e

channel versus the g channel and the e

channel has a much more narrow sharp q

and the g channel is more broad okay we

can't get it any sharper than this

what's also interesting is these are

both set at exactly the same frequency

and look at how much they're off this is

at 4500 and that's the e channel

and this one's at about 3k and this is

the g and right now we have them both

set to 3.5 k so these are all way off

from what the knob values actually are

now both the dynamic sections on these

plugins are identical same with the

expansion

portions and and the analog i think is

also very similar for these plugins so

everything else is the same the

differences between the original e

channel in the g channel ssl plugins by

waves all lie in basically the eq

section of everything

and then the different features like the

hmf times three versus changing the

shelves to bells now both of these

plugins also have a bunch of different

options here like this eq2 bypass to

dynamic side chain

dynamics to bypass or dynamics to

channel out so you can see they're

identical on both sides except this one

has filter dynamic side chain

and

all these do is just rearrange the order

that the audio goes through and if you

look at the manual it could be really

complicated just looking at it but the

manual does a really nice job of laying

it out so at in the default state for

both these plugins all the audio is

going to go first to the dynamics

processing so your compressor your

expander then it's going to go to the

filters so you can filter out any low

frequencies or high frequencies and then

the eq

if you select the channel out

or split in channel out

what you're going to do is put the

filters before the dynamics and you're

also going to pull the eq before the

dynamics processor okay

if you choose the split button on either

of these all that does is pull the

filter before everything okay normally

the filter is after dynamics you click

that split button which is right here

it's gonna pull the filter first

and then there's some additional things

you can do like if you can do the split

plus the dynamic side chain on the e

channel and basically all this is doing

is now you're pulling the filter first

because you push the split button

and then the dynamics processing is

going to be modified by whatever you do

with the eq

so the eq now acts as the side chain for

the compressor so if there's too much

sub kick in there you don't want to

react to the subwoofer but you don't

want to filter it out you can put that

side chain in lower the sub frequencies

so then the compressor doesn't

necessarily see them

but because it's the side chain the eq

is not going to affect the overall sub

frequencies overall so your audio will

still have it

your compressor just won't see it so it

won't react to it so that's helpful if

you want to keep a really powerful

punchy kick drum so then here's the

other one and this one's just for the g

channel it's basically the same thing

and again this is in the user manual for

these plugins okay so now you have an

idea of what

waves had out in 2006 when the e-channel

and g-channel first came out so let's

see how they've improved on that with

the new ev2 plug-in okay so this is the

ev2 channel strip and again the ev2 is

just a model of the ssl 4000 e console

so it's this basically a rehash of this

plug-in the e-channel but if you notice

there's a few more features on here that

are pretty cool okay

so now in the upper left we have a line

in and a mic input so this is modeling

the preamp section of the e console

which is really cool because it has a

lot of cool analog flavor they've also

moved the polarity inversion up here and

then they have a 20 db pad to it

okay

something that you should be aware of is

this analog button

adds some noise

but additionally it adds all the total

harmonic distortion that is both in the

input channel here and the output

so if you uncheck this analog button you

basically bypass all the cool harmonic

distortion saturation that they have in

this

input preamp stage okay so you probably

want to leave this on the noise floor is

really low and i'll show you that in a

second so really won't be introducing

too much noise but it just has a cool

flavor to it the compression section is

actually right below

and so it's located here instead of this

upper right corner

and then you have the expansion part

which is right here so basically they

moved this to right here

our filters are now located in the

bottom left okay

we still have the option to split them

which would allow us to then pull the

filters before everything before the

dynamics processing and the eq

and then here's our eq section so all

this is the same right so we have the

bell we can adjust the bell from the

shelf and we have all these things but

if you notice we have two more things we

have eq type up here and there's a brown

and a black

button and then they have this little

speaker icon and i think this speaker

icon is amazing and we'll talk about

that in a second so in terms of the

overall shape let's see how they are

different okay so let's boost the

original e channel by 6 db here you can

see that shelf let's do it over here

with uh the ev2

and you can see they're slightly

different

the frequencies actually go up all the

way to 20k now before they start rolling

off

so unlike the older version now we're

getting access to these

very very high frequencies above like

14k

whether that's a good thing or a bad

thing i don't know but

it's interesting to see that they're

different and notice that it's also a

little bit lower in gain okay so let's

take a look at the overall shape of the

hmf channel so let's do like 6 db here

this is the original e channel from 2006

and here is the remodel the ev2

so the frequency location's a little bit

different and the peak height so again

the gain is a little bit different

clearly they modeled a different ssl

console for this about the let's look at

the filters really quickly let's do 80

hertz for the original e channel and

let's do the same for the ev2

and you can see they're actually pretty

different

i mean it's so different that i thought

i maybe entered something in wrong i

mean i have to go all the way up to 100

to almost 120 hertz for them to match

now

so the filters are way different again

you're going to have to use your ears to

really dial in this plug-in so let's

talk about the features that aren't in

the original ssle channel that are in

the ev2 first one is up here in the top

left i didn't even tell you about this

but there's a side chain feature now so

we can trigger

the compressor based off of some other

input signal in whatever channel this is

on which is really really awesome and

i've been waiting for ways to do this

and i feel like every plugging company

should have some sort of side chain

functionality built in because you can

do a lot of really cool creative effects

with it

so i'm glad to see that they finally

implemented a sidechain feature now

what's really cool about this and i'll

show you in the live demo on the second

half of this video but this allows us to

solo

the frequency that we are sweeping so

you can see when this is engaged and i

adjust this filter

it basically lets us focus in on

whatever frequency this is adjusting so

you can really quickly fine tune exactly

where you want to position your eqs and

then either boost or cut them it's super

helpful it's an amazing workflow

improvement from the original and

this alone in my opinion if you like

using ssl channel strips is worth the

price of this plug-in the eq types here

allow us to change from

uh the black knobs and the brown knobs

in different years they had different

knobs and different circuitry so let's

see what they actually do to the audio

so if we leave it on the black knob and

we increase this to 6 db

and we leave it as a shelf that's what

that's the overall frequency shape if we

change it to the brown

you can see that it's a little bit less

and a little bit smoother okay

let's change it to a bell

and we switch between the black and the

brown you can see the brown has a much

wider cue to it okay so this is going to

have this will be better for like tonal

shaping and the black knobs are going to

be a little bit more precise a little

bit cleaner

for doing cuts or very specific

enhancements of certain frequencies

okay

something else if you notice

the location of these bands is shifted

so the black

let's see this is 200 hertz so this the

black knob is like right on the money

for what frequency it is the brown knob

even though it's at 200 hertz is really

kind of sitting at like 180 so it's a

little bit shifted lower now something i

almost forgot about is that if you load

up the mono channel of the ev2 you don't

have this feature which down here

it's totally missing but on the stereo

version of the plug-in it's here

and this is actually something that's

pretty cool as well

this is a knob that allows us to adjust

the stereo width of the track it's on so

if we leave it as it is in default it's

standard stereo

as you turn this up

it actually will make the source mono

okay and once you're straight up at 12

o'clock

now the audio will be totally mono

what's cool about this is this allows

you to really dial in the image that

you're trying to get with like drums for

example

it maybe your drums are too wide you

want to bring them in so then you can

put the guitars farther it's a nice tool

to have in certain circumstances

what's also cool is if you keep going

past 12 o'clock

you actually will reverse the left and

right channels

so

again if you're mixing drums and let's

say you have this on a drum buss but

the drums are recorded in drummer

perspective

and you want it to be an audience

perspective

you can just turn this knob in reverse

the stereo field and now

instead of the toms going from

left to right they'll go from right to

left you know or you can move your

hi-hat that's on the right side in your

overheads to your left side

and invert the stereo image also they

have these two additional features they

have extra wide and they have filter and

the extra wide basically

i'm guessing it removes the middle

channel or something but it makes it

super wide and i'll show you in the

actual demonstration what that sounds

like and then the filter from what i

understand will filter out maybe

everything under 100 or 200 i think 200

hertz

so that you have some of your middle

channel back if you do something like

this on drums or you know something that

has low frequencies that you want to

keep maybe in a vocal or something you

can just put that filter on and that

will bring all those frequencies back

below about 200 hertz so let's hop into

a session and i'll showcase some of the

sounds of the ev2 so you can hear how

cool the saturation circuit is that they

added and i'll let you hear what all

these different features sound like on

an actual song okay so the track that

i'm going to showcase this plug-in on is

by a band called deer spring they live

in washington dc and i have links to

their social and also their spotify

stuff so if you like what you hear go

and check them out support them buy some

merch or see them if they tour through

your city let me just give you a little

sample of the song

[Music]

so let's see what the ssl ev2 can do

for our drum buss

so i'm just gonna bypass uh the

compressor i have on there

all right so here is the ev2 loaded up

let me uh bypass this and we're just

gonna play the drums

so

big open drum sound

these are not programmed these are

actually

studio drums so let's check out what the

the saturation circuit can do because

this is a unique feature that's only on

the ev2

it really does sound like an analog

saturator to me like if i go and i put

ran this drum bus through analog

compress and just crushed it like that

i mean it has a similar vibe it really

has a cool feel to it

[Music]

i think this would be amazing on like a

room bus or something where you're just

trying to really get a lot out of the

drums it doesn't necessarily sound good

on this because this is my main drum bus

right we want to maintain some of the

clarity of the drums but you know on a

room or something it would sound really

cool so let's try it on a room and see

what it does there okay so i'm gonna

solo just the room

[Music]

see and you can hear man it just has

this really cool saturation to it it

just makes this room

sound massive it sounds like the

drummer's hitting it so hard

[Music]

just add a little compression to it

[Music]

i'm gonna put the 20 db pad on because

i'm boosting it 45 decibels again to

really get a lot of the saturation out

[Music]

let's clean it up with the filters

so original

[Music]

i mean it sounds huge right here's the

stereo image watch how much it you we

have control over how big we want these

drums to sound

[Music]

and then you can invert the stereo image

like i mentioned earlier

okay and because this is a room bus i

like to keep them really wide let's see

what this extra wide button does

[Music]

so it feels almost synthetic i don't

really like it on this particular case

but uh let's leave this set up like this

and see what it sounds like in context

so i'm going to bypass the ev2 and then

uh we'll see if we like the sound it

adds

so maybe a little bit too much

saturation right we hear that snare drum

breaking up

but man just feels so much wider when we

have this in

um i really like this

so let me show you this uh amazing

feature that they added with this little

uh speaker icon this will help us dial

in the eq for these rooms

so when you have this engaged now

anytime you adjust the

frequency it's going to focus in on just

that

spot

so like right here it's kind of ringy

and annoying annoying then you just dial

that back

okay

sounds a lot smoother now um we can do

the same thing with these uh the bass

sequences let's try to clean up some of

the low frequencies there

[Music]

like there's a big ringy thing going on

here

so we can cut there

okay so let's hear what it sounds like

with and without this on our drum room

bus so this without

[Music]

[Music]

it just sounds so much bigger let's

listen in context

[Music]

listen to how much the snare has body

now when this is in it just really comes

alive

it just makes the drummer sound like

he's hitting the drum so much harder all

right let's try the ev2 on a bass guitar

oh that's pretty cool i kind of dig that

[Applause]

for like a really gritty textured bass

sound oh this could be really cool

[Music]

so let's uh let's squeeze the bass a

little bit with the compressor

i'm digging how it sounds already with

just this saturation here let's uh dial

in some of the eq settings and i'm gonna

we're gonna use this cool feature again

to really hone in on the annoying

frequencies and to help us cut any of

the muddy stuff that we don't need

we don't really

need that

yeah we don't want that

so

that's going to clean up a little bit of

the space for the vocals have a little

bit more air in it

okay let's try um let's see what it

sounds like down here

so 2k and bass usually drives me little

nuts so let's try to clean some of that

up

it's this really honky sound i just hate

we gotta be careful because if we

if we take too much of this out we're

gonna lose all the attack on the base

and we still want to have some of that

[Music]

cool let's experiment with this eq type

right so we saw that the brown is a much

wider eq shape and it's a little bit

lower frequency and then the black is a

much more narrow more precise kind of

filter so let's see what we can do and

what that does to the tone of the bass

[Music]

so let's find a good frequency to boost

[Music]

you know let's give it let's thicken it

up around like 80 or 90 hertz right

there okay

now i would never do this in the context

of the song because i think it already

sounds pretty good but we're going to go

a little bit overboard with the amount

of boost we have here just so we can

hear the differences between the black

and the brown knobs

[Music]

[Music]

so you hear the brown is a little bit

looser right it's not as focused as the

black knob

[Applause]

i'm digging it man this saturation

circuit on base is nuts

all right let's try it on guitars so i'm

gonna throw it on the rhythm buss

[Music]

let's start with that saturation see if

it's really cool like it was for the

base

[Music]

not really digging it i will say though

it does give some texture to the guitars

but um i don't think it's right for this

song so probably keep this off or maybe

just on there a touch

okay something i'm hearing is there's

this low mid frequency thing i'm not

liking so let's activate this speaker

and let's let's do some hunting and see

if we can get rid of this

it's like mud i'm hearing

so use the bell

[Music]

[Music]

so i don't think i'll use this because

i can't get it narrow enough so let's go

up to the

uh this low middle frequency band so

let's make it nice and tight cue so we

can be surgical and we'll listen with

our

our speaker icon here

right there

right at about 500 hertz let's get rid

of some of that so we'll deactivate that

oh my gosh it's so much better right the

whole mix just opened up

[Music]

because we got rid of those frequencies

i think we need to also come in and cut

some of the harshness out of the guitar

so let's

turn this on again and let's find those

bad frequencies

let's get more narrow

i'd say like right around here let's cut

some of this out and see what does the

tone

way too much

there we go that kind of just smooths it

out right okay then we can just do some

quick filtering just to tighten

everything up

and let's put this in front of

everything by engaging the split

[Music]

cool i normally don't go this high on

the high pass filtering but you know

what it sounds good for this song so

let's just roll with it and then let's

also roll off some of that high hissy

top end

[Music]

that's gonna give again the vocals a

little bit more space so let's check

this out let's see how it sounds with

everything

[Music]

so they feel a little bit wider but i

still think they're a little dark so i

think we could bring back a little bit

of this high frequency stuff

[Music]

yeah it sounds better now it's a little

bit more pleasant

[Music]

there you have it that's a quick

demonstration of the ev2 on a bunch of

different sources so you can kind of get

a sense for the workflow and how you can

use it for your music

so do you think the ev2 is worth the

upgrade let me know in the comments

below i'd love to hear your thoughts on

this i think the combination of the

improved workflow using that audition

button and the saturation circuit

and the side chain make this a pretty

much a no-brainer i think it's a welcome

addition to the old 2006 ssl plug-ins

that waves released previously i want to

give you a reminder to go and download

your free copy of my favorite free mixi

and mastering plugins the link to that

is in the description i know you're

going to find that one super valuable i

want to thank you so much for your time

and attention today i hope this review

was really insightful and gives you some

perspective as to what the ev2 can offer

above and beyond the original ssl

plugins by waves and i hope to see you

in another video

you