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14-day money back guarantee included if product is not activated
You can purchase from Gear4music with complete confidence and peace of mind. All of our digital products come with a 14-day money-back guarantee as standard.
If you decide you don't want your order, you can return it within 14 days of receiving it. Provided your product hasn't been activated in that time, you can exchange it for a different product, or get a refund.
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This does not affect your statutory rights.
For more information, please refer to our Returns and Refunds Information.
If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 50 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
In the unlikely event that any item in this order is faulty, damaged or incorrect on receipt, notify us within 14 days and we'll arrange a free collection.
When returning an order please ensure products are appropriately packaged and protected, to prevent them from getting damaged.
This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 50 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
Key Features
The SSL Bus Compressor 2 and Sonible Smart:EQ 4 is a collection of two essential studio plugins for mixing, comprised of an innovative AI-powered EQ and realistic hardware compressor plugin emulation. Included with the bundle, the SSL Native Bus Compressor 2 puts the legendary sound of the famous SSL console compressor module in your DAW. Taken from the legendary SSL G-Series console from the '80s, the Bus Compressor 2 delivers the exact analog character and response from the hardware with multiple additions to suit the digital domain. A simple unit, the Native Bus Compressor 2 makes your tracks sound bigger, more powerful and punchier whilst creating cohesion and balance between multiple instruments, colloquially known as 'glueing' your tracks together.
The Sonible Smart:EQ 4 is an ingenious equalizer that utilizes AI technology to analyze and correct any spectral issues present in your audio material, resulting in impeccable tonal balance. Unlike traditional EQs, the Smart:EQ 4 takes a holistic approach by incorporating the context of your entire mix into its processing. Smart:EQ 4 comes equipped with a wide range of instrument and speech profiles, as well as profiles for entire mixes. Additionally, you have the option to create custom profiles from your reference tracks, allowing you to achieve the desired sound with precision.
Product Ref: 310960
Revered by virtually anyone who has ever used it, the SSL G-Series bus compressor section has a trick up its sleeve unlike anything else. Taking instruments in a bus and adding some "glue" the Bus Compressor 2 captures the exact response and sound of the original console compressor, adding punch and life to your busses. Known for making things "sound like a record", its musical response caters to any kind of genre, tempo or any instruments you might have in your mix bus. Perfectly capable of getting dirty when it needs to, the Bus Compressor still maintains the dynamic integrity of your tracks, even at high ratios.
We all want the classic analog sound, but for modern producers working in the digital domain, flexibility is key. That's why the SSL Native Bus Compressor 2 has been built from the hardware original to offer more functionality for your mixes. New parameters have been added for Attack, Release and Ratio, allowing you to fine-tune the response to the tempo of your track, the instrument or group and genre of your music. The best thing? The signature sound of the Bus Compressor 2 won't fall victim to pumping or destroying the dynamic character of your sound!
Bringing the patch-bay to the plug-in realm, the Bus Compressor 2 now features a side-chain input, with a side-chain input high-pass filter. Perfect for adding the punch and glue to the low end of your track in a clean way which doesn't become overpowering or too boomy, causing muddy mixes.
At the heart of Sonible smart:EQ 4 lies the smart:filter, an AI-powered tool that automatically balances the signal based on a target profile of your choosing. With a range of features to adjust the AI-powered processing, you have full control over the filtering process. The smart:filter widget allows you to tweak parameters such as the Smoothing parameter for more gentle filtering and the Adaptive option for smoothing out highly dynamic signals. Additionally, you can split the green weighting curve to define the frequency range where the intelligent algorithms should work their magic.
Sonible smart:EQ 4 offers three modes for using the smart:filter. The 'Track' mode balances the channel, while the 'Group' mode reduces masking between the channel and other group members without affecting the channel itself. If you want both balancing and unmasking, the 'Track and Group' mode is the perfect choice. Unleash the full potential of your mix and achieve a clear and well-balanced sound.
Create tailored intelligent processing profiles for instruments, vocals, or entire mixes with Sonible smart:EQ 4. With a variety of instrument and vocal profiles, as well as genre-based profiles, you have the flexibility to give your mix a final spectral polish. You can even load up a reference track to create a custom profile and have smart:EQ 4 emulate its spectral character and balance on your channel or bus. Plus, with the ability to specify the maximum learning time for analyzing the input signal, you have full control over the processing.
