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The side chain of the dynamics section is extremely flexible too.

Some hardware channel strips allow this, but a plug-in can always be more versatile. Secondly, you can change the order of the processing. That really isn't too much of a hardship, but clearly, the plug-in is going to be faster, and it's practical to create a hundred of your own presets if you like. With a hardware channel strip, you would have to write down your favourite settings, or store them as a note on your phone. What we see here are the following functions.Д«ut there are features here that you won't find on a hardware channel strip.ДЇirstly there are presets, and of course, you can store your own settings. This one, from SSL, clearly has the SSL look and one can assume that it has something of the sound quality of a physical SSL console.

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Software channel strips can mimic real hardware, or they can be complete works of invention that don't exist in the physical world. You will have to account for the small amount of latency (time delay) in the round trip out of and back into your DAW. You can process as many tracks as you like, one by one. It is also possible to process individual tracks in your DAW (digital audio workstation) and bounce them back into the session. You can also use it to process one channel while you mix. They could be if you had a number of channel strips, but then surely it would be easier just to have the whole console.ДЄs a single-channel hardware unit you can use it to process any instrument or voice as you record, but clearly only one channel at a time. These functions are not relevant to a standalone channel strip. What's missing that you would also find on an actual mixing console channel are the auxiliary sends, pan, mute, and solo.

Microphone or instrument input (DI) - the line input is on the rear panel.

If we scan this from left to right, these are the main functions. Here we have the Neve 8801 channel strip, which is a repackaging of the electronics from a single channel of their 88R mixing console. Or if you have a pair of channel strips, you can process the whole mix through them.ДЄt some later time, audio equipment manufacturers started making their own channel strips, completely independent of the mixing console. You can also use them on one or two instruments or vocals while you mix. This would be on just one channel, or a pair if you had boxed up two, but you can use them multiple times as you record overdubs. So you could for instance take a Neve channel strip to any studio and have the Neve sound available. Standalone hardware channel stripsДЄt some point in history, a wise person decided that it would be useful to mount a mixing console channel strip in a box of its own. But sometimes you know exactly how something should sound and it's best to make that decision when you record. It's a more versatile way of working to leave EQ, compression, etc until the mix. If you record 'flat', meaning with the controls switched out or neutral, then you have complete flexibility to set them as you please during the mix. If you use the EQ and compressor, for example, while you record, the settings are 'baked in' to your recording. You can use all of these controls while recording, or you can leave them in their neutral settings while you record and only set them when you mix.

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