I don't really see the difference between this plug and one of their other SSL channel plugins their entire abilities fit into the venn diagram circle of a decently modern gate Gates still need way more advancement, its one of the few areas where you can really say that retro brings NOTHING to the table. These 1970's gates being emulated bring nothing to the table that a better gate can't do. gates were a HUGE part of the the earliest REAPER versions and a reason why so many chose to take a look at it. I don't understand all these plugins putting in (even if they are historically accurate) these extremely crippled as gates. (Initially I also reacted on the fact that the plugin's missing pans and mute/solo, but then I realized that it has its reason, design-wise.) But i guess new times, new demands are coming. The only thing that bothered me a little was its CPU usage – ridiculously CPU hungry for its plugin type. Not only the sound, but the concept as well. But anyhow, this is some piece of plugin. On the other hand, I don't have any real life experiences using the SSL hardware, so I can't really be a judge of how close to the real thing this is. But it's too noticeable, why I believe it's not exclusively modeled after the channel (CLA him self must have 'tweaked' the results somewhat to optimize what he thinks lacks on the hardware – which by no mean has to be something bad). The EQ sounds a bit different from the Waves SSL 4000 (E), especially in the mid range, where the MixHub sounds more pleasing in a way. I demo'ed it, and it sounds very, very good. Just as I thought I was covered using a combo of the NLS, SSL and CLA (compressors) plugins, Waves comes up with this monster.

Erm multiclock vs reaper