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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 | 30 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 |
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Key Features
The SSL autoBUS is a hybrid bus compression plugin, combining sonible's industry-leading AI audio analysis with the authentic sound of SSL 4000G Bus Compressor hardware. Built as part of the autoSeries, autoBUS brings together classic analogue-style bus compression and modern, audio-aware assistance. autoBUS listens to your signal, then uses sonible’s advanced AI-powered profile-based, style-matched settings that suit your mix bus or subgroups, all while staying fully editable. This helps you reach controlled, cohesive results quickly, letting you focus on expressing your creativity when mixing.
Onboard settings for Profile and Style keep the workflow flexible and focused. Choose from genre-specific Full Mix profiles, including Electronic, Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, and more, or switch to Vocal, Guitar, or Drum bus profiles for targeted processing. Each profile adapts to your input rather than applying fixed parameters, so the compression responds naturally to your audio. The Style control then adjusts the overall character, letting you move between subtle control and stronger impact.
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Merging the industry-leading automated AI parameter adjusting of Sonible with the legendary tone of SSL hardware, autoBUS adapts your stereo bus compression intelligently, delivering console-grade dynamics control across any channel in your mixer. Dial in your sound with Profile and Style. Profile tells the AI assistance what source it’s working with, with a huge range of genre-specific profiles to choose from as well as a Full Mix option. Electronic, Pop, R&B, Metal, Rock, Hip-Hop, Acoustic Country, and Funk are all included as full mix options to help optimise the processing for that signal type and genre. Beyond Full Mix, there are also Vocal, Guitar, and Drum bus profiles, giving you even more tailored options for different elements of your production. Unlike a preset with fixed parameters, a profile adapts intelligently to your input. Style shapes the character of the processing. Let sonible’s AI analyse your audio and deliver real-time recommendations, so you can move fast, stay creative, and achieve musical results with the authentic SSL Bus Compressor sound.
At the core of autoBUS is the sound. Derived from the legendary SSL 4000G Bus Compressor, autoBUS delivers console accurate compression tone, full of analog character and grit to a realistic 3D sound. The 4000G Bus Compressor is considered the best bus compressor ever made, perfect for gluing multiple instruments together to create harmonious sound, balancing levels, enhancing punch and adding depth. Make no mistake, this is not designed to be used subtly, autoBUS can be pushed to the limits to help your productions sound better with more drive to deliver that commercial-level energy you’ve come to know from chart-topping hits.
Powering sonible’s AI algorithm is the automatic audio analysis setting. This intelligent tool listens to the incoming audio and suggests compression moves that are musical and work with your song, without the need for tweaking! Of course, you have full control over the parameters to tailor every part of the compressor to meet the needs of your track or channel in your mixer to fine-tune it just the way you want.
For more detailed and responsive processing, the Sonible learn function comes with multiple genre and instrument-specific profiles. These profiles will tailor sonible’s learn function to provide automated processing that’s more responsive to the incoming audio. This means you will be able to set up your compression faster and with more musicality than leaving it on the default mode.
Unlike traditional hardware-modelled compressor plugins, autoBUS includes visual representation of your compression levels and gain reduction built into the onboard compression graph, perfect for beginners to help understand how the adjustments are effecting your signal, or for professionals to quickly see if the changes meet the required amount of compression levels you’re looking to achieve with autoBUS.
