Celebrity Endorsements: Nonsense?

I've owned ChannelStrip for many, many years - since the early TDM days. It's basically an SSL 4k channel strip. I seem to use it for awhile, and then look other directions, but it's always good to have it as an option. The closer I get my tracks cut to the way I want them, the less I need CS.

So especially if you mix ITB - which I believe Serban does - adding Channelstrip to your DAW mixer basically gives you a SSL channelstrip - EQ, Dynamics, Filters. If this is what you want, then it's a solid contender. PT and Channelstrip give you the functionality of a SSL console (kinda), and adding other plugins is very much like adding outboard. His comment makes perfect sense to me.

Jeff's comments make sense too. Channelstrip is very comprehensive for those used to working on a 4k - at least for the CONSOLE basics. You get it all on one plugin instead of having to chain a bunch of stuff together. As Serban mentions, you still need OTHER plugins for outboard functionality, but for getting "console" like functionality - PT and Channelstrip pretty much take you there.

As for JJ being suicidal without it? LOL I like channelstrip, but I'm not going suicidal without it.

if I WANTED an SSL but had to be ITB - which I generally don't want, but whatever - Channelstrip is a good contender. Worth far more than $75 IMO.

Man after all that endorsement I want it.

I've used Channel Strip for many years, it's very flexible and does what it was intended to do. Gate, 3 different Compressor types, EQ and a limiter. I also have Eventide's Ultrachannel but use MH Channel Strip the vast majority of the time. As donr said, their products are solid, they just work and are very stable. We have 2 MH ULN-8's in the studio and they are great. AD and DA conversion as good or better as any I've heard and the mic pres stopped my desire for acquiring others. Great products and service. The upcoming 3d upgrade should be incredible. How many company's can say that every single box they've created and sold can be upgraded? Anyhow, I went a bit off topic, the bottom line is that if someone wants or needs a "channel strip" type of plugin it is a worthy option and you get a fair amount of functionality for $75.

Channelstrip is the first plug on all my channels -the gate alone is worth the price - it works better than any other I've used. Easy and no chattering.

As of version 3.0, I really like the compressor with the MIO option also.

The EQ is very usable and, for me, ideal for basic cuts, shelving and roll offs.

Not gonna go as far as JJP, but I do prefer it to any of my UAD channel strips - its probably my most used plug in, and has been for about five years.

MJH

I have to believe whole heartedly in a product before I will be an endorser. It's important not to "whore" your name out for free/discounted gear and that isn't what the companies are after either. There have been two products that I endorsed for a while that didn't do it for me after a while. What I did do was found the companies better suited endorsers to spotlight their products better and kept in touch to make sure all went well and they, musicians and product maker, were all very grateful. I wish more of that happened in the business.

Channel strip rules and those dudes are not lying at all. I dont know about jeff but I know that serban uses his like the ssl and Puig says nothing can do what it does specially because it has the crazy 1000:1 ratio or what ever is going on.

story, please. 

I was the first person to go all out on a 32 in and 32 out protools rig which I called and was told would work when protools 9 came come. Boy did it not work so I thought I would get support on my multi thousand dollar rig. What happened is they got a bunch of new customers who couldnt even use the mio console and got super boogged down and stopped responding or trying to help a lifelong customer such as myself. I told them I was leaving and selling there gear. They told me I was the only person in the world trying to using 32 ins and outs with protools at that time and that 1 client was one while many were many. So I left. Fuck them
 

I keep looking at cubase. but clients just keep sending me protools session. what is a boy to do?

I'm still pretty cold about Avid's last year of totally shit behavior, but i have to say this PT12.4 is a monster, super stable, and I swear i hear an improvement in sound, i'm jumping from 10, is there that much of a diff in the processing that it's made a sound quality improvement? I'm probably trippin, i'll have to check out some old stuff, i've only had it for a couple days, It doesn't hurt that the latest thing i'm playing with was tracked extremely well.

am I? from 10 to 12.4 is my jump, so i've gone from 32 to 64bit architecture and from rtas to aax plugs, i wonder if the resultant processing power wouldn't lead to more refined resolution, and less truncation type digital artifacting? Just throwin that out there, i need way more time on this to even begin to make a definitve decision on whether i'm hearing an actual improvement, at this point it feels pretty good even if it's all in my head haha

I have no idea why we need to call it nonsense... the minions needs someone to follow, and I stand behind that, brought to you by Brawndor, makers of Gatorade available at Costco for $2500 a dozen. (Some will get the movie reference).