SSL Blitzer is the latest in a recent renaissance of plugins from the hardware legends Solid State Logic, known for their iconic consoles, found in many of the top studios around the world.
This is what they say about Blitzer;
“The SSL Blitzer plug-in is an analogue hardware-inspired character compressor – capable of everything from soft, saturating compression to explosive brick-wall limiting. In addition to adjustable transient shaping and vintage-style harmonic drive for adding colour to your tracks, Blitzer offers 10 unique compression curves across 10 ratios, each with a unique shape and tone.
With the distinct response of tube, VCA and vintage opto compressors all from a single easy-to-use interface, you’re never more than a click away from what you need. Combined with MIX control for parallel compression, AUTO GAIN to help maintain your levels, and SSL’s contextual help system, Blitzer is a versatile compressor plug-in with startling variation.”
A lot of people are interested in buying Blitzer, but here’s the problem, they can’t.
It’s one of the plugins available from SSL that can only be acquired by subscribing to the ‘SSL Complete Subscription’ their software plan.
However, it’s a decision that seems to have got a lot of people angry. The Facebook post announcing the new plugin largely consists of comments about this, few are positive and about the actual product. Here’s a screenshot of the comments on the post.
SSL are not the only company to face the ire of the music and post production community over subscriptions. It seems people hate to be forced into a subscription plan, they much prefer the option to have the choice.
How do you feel about plugin subsciptions? Do you think they are OK and there’s a lot of fuss about nothing? Or do you think that being forced to subscribe is a turn off and makes you choose other plugins that don’t require subscriptions? Let us know in the comments below.