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Apogee

ECS Channel Strip

Do you really need a channel strip plug-in when every DAW comes with its own equalizers, dynamics processors and saturation effects? Of course, you can achieve similar results with a selection of high-quality effects plug-ins, but the big advantage of a channel strip is that it combines all the necessary signal processors in one interface and they have been carefully matched to each other.

Apogee‘s ECS Channel Strip features an equalizer section and a compressor tuned by legendary engineer and producer Bob Clearmountain. The three-band equalizer is based on a classic hardware equalizer from the seventies. The high-pass filter can also be used as a sidechain filter for the compressor to avoid pumping effects. With the compressor, you can condense the input signal or

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