Andrew Scheps is a legend in the recording world, and this plugin was designed with him in order to make a "Swiss Army Knife" of channel strips (as we say). It has a de-esser, compressor, limiter, gate, EQ, and more than can be reordered in whatever signal flow you wish (within the plugin), and it also has an empty slot to add another Waves plugin if you wish. I got this to complete a Waves recording course, and I am looing forward to using it for a long time to come.