02.05
The Focusrite Liquid Mix is a fantastic external box offering a large selection of compressors and eq’s for use within you digital audio workstation. It’s a popular alternative to the UAD card and, for the price offers, many more emulations of classic equipment. Some of my favorites include the 1176 compressor, Avalon VT737, LA-2A and Focusrite RED 7 emulations. The biggest problem for me when I first bought the liquid mix two years ago was the strange, and very hard to remember, naming system used! As you can see from the screen capture below left the only units with their actual names are those that were made by Focusrite. I found this very hard to deal with but fortunately someone has come up with a very easy solution. Please click here to go to a thread on gearslutz where you can download snapshots that allow you to open the required unit using the load button on the top right hand side of the liquid mix plugin window. This will allow you to see a full list of compressors and eq’s with their actual name. Take a look at the image below to the right to see the list of proper names.
I hope this information is useful to other Liquid Mix users as it’s made my life much easier!
Thanks a bunch!
I got the LM 2 weeks ago. At first, I wanted to try all the comps and EQs without knowing their actual emulation source simply to have an unbiased opinion of the LM.
Now that this is sais and done… I want to use specific emulation and going back to a paper version of the emulation list was not pleasent.
This will definately make life easier with the LM!
Regards,
Michel.