Editing Solid State Logic (section)

===Large-format mixing consoles===
{{main|Solid State Logic SL 4000}}

In 1976, SSL combined the SL 4000's in-line mixing console design with a computer that provided [[Mix automation|fader automation]] and programmable [[Magnetic tape|tape]] transport auto-location functionality,<ref name="Grammy">{{cite web|title=Douglas Sax and Solid State Logic, Ltd. to Receive 2004 Technical Grammy Awards|url=http://www.aes-media.org/historical/html/recording.technology.history/grammys2004.html|website=aes-media.org|publisher=The Recording Academy|date=27 January 2004|access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref> A total of six B Series consoles were built for and sold to studios, beginning with [[Abbey Road Studios]] in London, followed by [[Le Studio]] in [[Morin-Heights]], Canada,<ref name="verna">{{cite magazine |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4gsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA91 |title= Studio Morin Heights Reaches Far: Quebec Facility Embraces Int'l, Local Acts |last= Verna |first=Paul |date= 25 February 1995 |magazine=Billboard |pages= 91 |accessdate= 4 November 2014}}</ref> Virgin Records' [[Townhouse Studios]] in London, and Tocano Studio in Copenhagen.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=20 April 1996|title=Production Credits|magazine=Billboard|pages=61}}</ref>

[[File:SSL SL4000G+.jpg|thumb|Townhouse Studios SL4000G+ Serial #1000 (image reversed)]]
The SL 4000 E Series, introduced in 1979, offered various improvements on the B Series, including a new 4-band [[Equalization (audio)|EQ]] section developed in collaboration with [[George Martin]]. Most notably, the E Series introduced the ability to save and recall mixer settings, and was the first mixer to feature a compressor/gate on every channel as well as the master bus compressor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.waves.com/ssl-e-channel-or-g-channel|title=SSL E-Channel or G-Channel?|date=20 April 2021|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref> SSL introduced the SL 4000 G Series at the [[Audio Engineering Society|AES]] New York Convention in 1987, which again offered a redesigned EQ, among other improvements. The ability to save and recall mixer settings, along with the inclusion of a dedicated compressor and noise gate on every channel on SL 4000 E Series consoles and its successors and variants drove widespread adoption in professional recording studios,<ref name="Willox">{{cite web|last=Willox|first=Mike|title=Reviews - Vintage: SSL 4000 Series|url=https://musictech.com/reviews/studio-icons-ssl-4000/|website=MusicTech.net|publisher=NME Networks|date=28 May 2014|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="Sweetwater">{{cite web|title=The History of SSL|url=https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/the-history-of-ssl/|website=Sweetwater.com|publisher=Sweetwater Sound, Inc.|date=18 February 2020|access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref> including [[Power Station (recording studio)|The Power Station]], [[Sarm East Studios|Sarm Studios]], [[Larrabee Sound Studios]], [[Battery Studios]], [[Record One]], [[Eden Studios (recording facility)|Eden Studios]], and [[RG Jones Recording Studios]], and used by [[Audio engineer|recording engineers]] such as [[Bob Clearmountain]], [[Steve Lillywhite]], [[Tom Lord-Alge]], [[Alan Moulder]], and [[Trevor Horn]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Milner |first1=Greg |title=Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music |date=2009 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |location=New York, New York, US |isbn= |pages= }}</ref>

The SL 4000 E Series and G Series consoles were later also made available in 5000 Series, 6000 Series, and 8000 Series formats, which offered various routing and bussing configurations to address the needs of sound for the recording, film, video, and broadcast markets. SSL introduced SuperAnalogue design in the SL 9000 J Series console, which utilized a capacitor-free signal path to achieve very high bandwidth with extremely low distortion.
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In 1996 [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard magazine's]] Studio Action Chart reported that 83% of number one singles that year had been produced using an SSL mixing console. The company claims that more platinum albums have been recorded on SSL mixing consoles than any other company's equipment combined.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.uaudio.com/blog/the-enduring-legacy-of-ssl/|title=The Enduring Legacy of SSL {{!}} Universal Audio|access-date=2018-09-03|language=en}}</ref> By 2004, there were more than 3,000 SSL-equipped facilities worldwide.<ref name="Walsh">{{cite news|last=Walsh|first=Christopher|title=Grammys Recognize SSL's Technical Contributions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQ8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22larrabee+west%22+studio+sold+2004&pg=PA50|magazine=Billboard|date=24 January 2004|access-date=1 March 2022}}</ref>

In the 1990s, SSL also developed products for the post production and motion picture industry, and introduced the A Series digital mixing consoles. In the 2000s, the company introduced the C Series consoles designed to meet the needs of the broadcast production market.