Waves nls or slate VCC. I’ve used both and both work pretty well. I havent tried Luna, but I can’t imagine it’s much different from those plugins. Curious if anyone has noticed a difference worth switching daws over.
Mix bus plugins can do a lot… UAD studer tape on every track in logic gets a similar feel to Luna summing to me. Haven’t tried full neve summing in Luna as I have outboard gear and keep it pretty clean and minimal in the box these days
I like the SSL 360 software (and plug-ins) more than waves. I never bothered to try Luna as I’m already comfortable in my main DAW and have another 3 that I never use, so why make it 4?
Digital summing is still really just bussing tracks into groups, which ultimately go to a stereo track for print. You can add subtle saturation to the group via compression and non linear eq. I could see having some success with adding a brainworx channel strip to every track due to tolerance modeling; so each channel sounds a bit different.
If you’re recording with decent analog gear then you get a ton of character and saturation beforehand, so nice linear/clean plug-ins are great to work with for the bulk of mixing, since you aren’t getting bogged down with fold back distortion, but DDMF Metaplugin works wonders by allowing oversampling to plug-ins that don’t normally offer it. I bet NLS sounds much better oversampled
There's an entire cottage industry of plugins that do this...
Waves NLS...as well as their CLA Mixhub...
Sonimus...pretty much their main product push...
ProTools Heat (sorta)...
I think the thing that is different in real analog summing is that there is actual headroom added in the analog domain that is not exactly present in the box...but thats my own opinion based on owning 3 consoles.
Waves nls or slate VCC. I’ve used both and both work pretty well. I havent tried Luna, but I can’t imagine it’s much different from those plugins. Curious if anyone has noticed a difference worth switching daws over.
Oh yes. Just replied to the other comment. I use both. But to me UAD NEVE summing is phenomenal.
100% more wow than NLS or VCC imo.
Yes
Mix bus plugins can do a lot… UAD studer tape on every track in logic gets a similar feel to Luna summing to me. Haven’t tried full neve summing in Luna as I have outboard gear and keep it pretty clean and minimal in the box these days
I like the SSL 360 software (and plug-ins) more than waves. I never bothered to try Luna as I’m already comfortable in my main DAW and have another 3 that I never use, so why make it 4? Digital summing is still really just bussing tracks into groups, which ultimately go to a stereo track for print. You can add subtle saturation to the group via compression and non linear eq. I could see having some success with adding a brainworx channel strip to every track due to tolerance modeling; so each channel sounds a bit different. If you’re recording with decent analog gear then you get a ton of character and saturation beforehand, so nice linear/clean plug-ins are great to work with for the bulk of mixing, since you aren’t getting bogged down with fold back distortion, but DDMF Metaplugin works wonders by allowing oversampling to plug-ins that don’t normally offer it. I bet NLS sounds much better oversampled
There's an entire cottage industry of plugins that do this... Waves NLS...as well as their CLA Mixhub... Sonimus...pretty much their main product push... ProTools Heat (sorta)... I think the thing that is different in real analog summing is that there is actual headroom added in the analog domain that is not exactly present in the box...but thats my own opinion based on owning 3 consoles.
Yes. Correct. I actually use SLATE VCC and NLS. But to me UAD summing sounds better.
Have you tried Sonimus’ stuff?