McDSP UNVEIL 6060

Channel Strip by McDSP

McDSP, in my opinion, makes some of the cleanest and smoothest plugins of the lot. They are among some of the pioneers in digital processing and still to this day, make some excellent plugins. They are often overlooked and underrated.

As a longtime fan of their 6030 Ultimate Compressor collection, I was quite excited for this one when it was announced earlier this year. The 6060 Ulti-mate Module Collection contains the largest collection of processing options of any module-based plug-in available. The 6060 includes over 30 unique modules for EQ, compression, saturation, distortion, specialized filtering, dynamic range expansion, gating, and more. Custom modules include bass optimized biasing for the larger than life low end, transformer-based tone shaping circuits for high-end shine, tape simulation, de-essing and new EQ and compression designs. Additional modules are already in the works.

The 6060 allows up to six modules to be operated at once. Modules can be arranged in any order and swapped on the fly using the module selector panel, or from the popup menu in each module. Any combination of mod-ules can even be split into two separate signal paths for some serious paral-lel processing. The 6060 also includes updated compression algorithms not available in the 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip or the original 6030 Ultimate Compressor. Im-provements include feedback and feedforward processing, and the rare option of negative compression on a few select modules.

The easy drag and drop style module auditioning is a breeze to use and is something I prefer over to the Slate VMR. The split mode operation for sep-arate signal paths allow for some very interesting parallel processing oppor-tunities and is something I would like to see in more module style plugins. The analog saturation modelling is easily one of the best. Its got the warmth with a highly minimized hint of the usual cold digital-ness that usually comes along with it. The plugin also runs at ultra-low latency and I’ve found it to be quite light even when running multiple instances of it in a session.

All in all, super excited to see the direction McDSP is taking with this. Would like to see a more affordable subscription model tied to it to make it a steal deal. Even otherwise, with the chances of more modules being added to this collection, it's quite worth it if you're a stickler for some extremely clean digi-tal processing