
That being said, if you do want to make sure you get the exact emulation as intended by Slate Digital, you probably will want to look into acquiring the Mic Pre or the Virtual Recording Studio interface. But my understanding is that it isn’t as necessary anymore, as most decent interfaces these days come with a transparent and clean enough mic pre that it isn’t as much of an issue anymore. VMS used to come with a dedicated mic pre that you had to use in order to get the emulations for both the Microphone and the Mic Pre to be accurate. A very exciting prospect, I’m sure you agree! To have only 1 microphone that can be almost any other would make it much easier to find the right mic for voice or whatever application is at hand. So if you record a vocal, for example, and you used a Telefunken U47 mic emulation during tracking but ended up wanting the sound of a Sony C800g, you have the option of making the change by simply selecting the mic in the plugin after the fact. The ML-1, in combination with the microphone selection in the Virtual Mix Rack plugin by Slate Digital, allows you to essentially have an entire mic locker at your fingertips.
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You can see evidence of this in the ML-2 Small Diaphragm Microphone and the Virtual Recording Studio interface.įor those of you who are not familiar with this kind of product, the ML-1 is a microphone that is made to be as linear and transparent as possible in order to accurately imprint software emulations of other microphones over it. Slate Digital was one of the first in the industry to release such a system, and over the years they have continued to refine and expand on this idea.
