They both have their strengths and weaknesses. I generally still prefer the top Nebulas, but there are some excellent AnalogX profiles I use regularly. Even if you have an SSL Nam, and an SSL Nebula, both sound great, and they will have differences, one may work better than the other for your current use case.

 

I love Nebula and bought several packs but now I prefer AnalogX, some amazing stuff there.

 

Great stuff, guess it all depends in which stage you introduce the console, been experimenting more, changing things around, starting from beginning shaping the sounds with it and all that, must say I'm totally digging 8014.

Yoad Nevo's video inspired me to try having 8068 thing with tape going on and I managed to pull that out on my usual instrumental/ambient stuff with low track count, CDSoundMaster's A800, Tim P's 31102 and 8014 on every channel, also 8014 on groups, sends and stereo buss, also going into 33609 (replaced 254E in the middle, kinda vibed more with 33609) and all that into AX102.

But I kept going, so went with SSL 4KE on groups too after the 8014 and on the stereo buss 33609 into Tim P's SSL gold with gold pre into 8014 that into SSL 4KE and AlexB 102 Magnetic/Line Clean into AX102, love it. Gonna try to separate Neve and SSL, I really don't like to bounce/stem stuff (and I actually have more juice left in my toy machine), but I guess things will change enough if I go with "track on Neve, mix on SSL" kind of thing, export everything having full Neve thing, then have all that going into SSL with full routing, gonna probably just leave 8014 on stereo buss, export stems and do whole buss compression and tape in SSL project.

Fun stuff, love it.

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Yeah, absolutely love this combo, SSL just tightens up everything, gives more separation/definition, polish, went with AlexB SSL black EQ too for cleaning/minor shaping too. (cool thing to load all instances into Patchworx and then map it inside of SSL 360 Link)

 

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