dsp's: liquid mix/uad/ssl duende

klankeffect · Post by **klankeffect** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:23 pm

hi,
i want to expand my small studio with some quallity plug ins. I was reading some articles in sos, internet about the uad solo laptop, duende mini ore the ff liquid mix. they all look verry promissing...
but what does the nicest job. What is the moast intersting gear. like fe uad has a bunch of plug ins, but antoher way of thinking is like a lot off plugins are not as usefull than fe 2 wich you know really good....
what do you guys use? tips? advices?
grtz

Ronny Pries · Post by **Ronny Pries** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:49 pm

UAD has got the longest experience in modelling plugins after hardware gear and their effects are outstanding. They keep releasing new effects all the time and stuff like their Fairchild, Cambridge, LA2A etc are already software studio classics.

Liquidmix is too narrowly focussed on mixing effects only, same for the Duende. Good quality but less updates.

I'd always vote for Universal Audio.

Daemonix · Post by **Daemonix** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:17 pm

http://www.focusrite.com/liquidmixchallenge/

check this out. its really cheeeeap vs the other two.

Tasos

hydrogen · Post by **hydrogen** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:11 pm

Daemonix wrote:http://www.focusrite.com/liquidmixchallenge/

check this out. its really cheeeeap vs the other two.

Tasos

would love to have a liquid mix... but only 1 firewire on the macbookpro.

Daemonix · Post by **Daemonix** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:16 pm

hydrogen wrote:
Daemonix wrote:http://www.focusrite.com/liquidmixchallenge/

check this out. its really cheeeeap vs the other two.

Tasos
would love to have a liquid mix... but only 1 firewire on the macbookpro.

FW chain?! (or bandwidth problem?)

Brankis · Post by **Brankis** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:44 pm

love my liquid mix. never tried UAD but focusrite is a far cry above most mix oriented vst packages ive tried, even including higher end brands like Flux and Sonnox stuff. The emulations have incredible character

the 16 channel version goes for $199 brand new! unbeatable if you ask me. i never use more than 10 instances so the extra $$ for the 32 channels is not really worth it

hydrogen · Post by **hydrogen** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:52 pm

Daemonix wrote:
hydrogen wrote:
Daemonix wrote:http://www.focusrite.com/liquidmixchallenge/

check this out. its really cheeeeap vs the other two.

Tasos
would love to have a liquid mix... but only 1 firewire on the macbookpro.
FW chain?! (or bandwidth problem?)

dunno... but don't think i can run the liquidmix and fireface off the same chain... too much bandwidth needed?

agodi · Post by **agodi** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:40 am

hydrogen wrote: dunno... but don't think i can run the liquidmix and fireface off the same chain... too much bandwidth needed?

Yeah I had problems initially using my liquidmix and my soundcard together as the liquid mix takes a huge amount of firewire bandwidth even with the power supply plugged in. A separate cardbus adapter seems to have solved the problem but i still need to keep the power supply plugged in.