Thankfully, the SAND BUS plug-in can be used on its own on the mix bus or even multiple busses with none of these issues. Unfortunately, the full suite is a bit of a processor-hog and can create noticeable latency when mixing-especially if you’re using it on multiple channels. SAND BUS can only be purchased as part of the ACQUA suite, which also features SL 4000 preamp and EQ emulations. In addition to offering fully variable attack, release and ratio controls, SAND BUS also offers a wet/dry knob for easy parallel compression. Watch our free video tutorial below to hear the Waves CLA-76 in familiar mixing territory, processing he dynamics of drum tracks. You get both the Blue and Black variations in the same purchase price of Waves CLA-76. Most notably, SAND introduces an innovative Shape Modulation or “ShMod” control that alters the shape of the attack envelope. The difference between these units and indeed the emulations are slight but can be found in their gain stages and time constants.
Type A is modeled after the original SSL-G, while Type C is modeled after “some other familiar software compressors.” SAND BUS also features an “Insane Mode” modeled after the “Crush” mode on the Alan Smart C2, one of the most acclaimed analog emulations of the original SSL bus compressors
SAND BUS features two bus compressor variants: type A and type C.
