It’s a tape machine emulation, so its job is to capture some of the more delicate features analog tape imparts on a signal. This is perhaps the most subtle saturation plugin on the list. Easily one of the best saturation plugins out there, perfectly at home anywhere in your mix.
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HG-2 emulates four different vacuum tube stages combined in series and parallel circuits to color your mix and individual tracks with a range of rich harmonics. An added Air knob lets you control how much high-frequency ‘fairy dust’ you sprinkle on vocal tracks, string instruments, piano, and full mixes. The boutique stereo processor’s multiple tube circuits not only make tracks sound richer and fuller, they also make them sound louder, bigger, and punchier at the same peak level. The Black Box has found its way into some mastering engineers’ chain, and is right at home on groups and mix buses. This is a faithful recreation of Analog Design’s Black Box hardware tube saturation unit. I’ve been using it on my background vocal bus not only for a bit of grittiness, but also to quickly EQ the highs and lows so they sit underneath the leads.
In its day, it was used on many early Motown hits, and now you can add it to your DAW for some classic analog dirt.Ī colleague of mine uses it on anything he thinks sounds ‘boring’ - interpret that as you will. The original Altec 1567A hardware was a five-input tube mixer with removable transformers, a simple two-knob EQ, and a massive 97 dB of gain.īy digital’s standards, the sound it made was colored and gritty, with a huge portion of old fashioned hardware noise (which you can toggle on/off in the plugin it’s noisy!). Radiator is a dual-drive tube input channel and EQ, based on the Altec 1567A tube mixer from the ’60s.
That’s because it gives mixers a lot of control in an easy-to-use plugin.
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