I would recommend Overloud's 2A over other 2A plugins for the amount of control it gives you.Įdit: from what i tested, Overloud's 2A tends to focus more on the mid range and has a overall softer tone.
I can see that their just emulating that analog lofi texture. I would personally avoid Waves because it lacks some highs. The one i like the most so far is Purple Audio MC77, which just squashes everything to death.įor pultecs IK again gives you a much fatter bottom end. Waves black and IK tends to give you a fatter bottom end. Generally i would use Arturia FET-76 on everything. There are for sure some compressors and EQs in particular that I prefer to use, but mainly because of their sound, not because they come most close to the hardware they're emulating. Since AA Baxter is free, you can try yourself. You can easily match the low and high shelf of any digital EQ to the shapes of AA Baxter, but does this mean the sound the same? Spoiler alert, no, it doesn't. So you can say it's not about 'which nailed the sound best' but which is best for which source and your personal goal - soundwise.Īdditionally, even if I'm a big friend of measurements and am using Plugin Doctor a lot, it doesn't tell the whole story. And even if you match their gainreduction and output to one source, they can respond very different to another source. Maybe this is the reason why all their soft emus sound different too. Because, as you probably know, all these old, if not to say ancient, units sound differently. But then again only of the specific unit they were sampled from. When it comes to genuine sound, I guess you can generally say Acustica Audio Aqua and Nebula because they are 'the originals'. I guess the UAD should be very good too but didn't have the opportunity to measure them, even though the studio had all of them.Ĭlick to expand.are two completely different questions. Pultec : Black Rooster VEQ-1P (against Waves, IK, NoiseAsh, Overtone, Presonus, AO, Kuassa)ĭistressor : Slate FG-Stress (against Empirical Labs, SKnote) SSL 4000 E Rack : bx_console SSL 4000E (against SSL Native (lol), Waves, IK, Slate, Sonimus, AO) Urei 1176LN : Arturia Comp FET/Black Rooster VLA-FET (against Waves, IK, NI/Softube, Slate, Overloud, Presonus, AO, Softube) (the hardware measurements was kind of a mix of the two) Teletronix LA-2A : Black Rooster VLA-2A/IK White 2A (against Waves, NI/Softube, Slate, Presonus, Overloud, AO) I kept the data and did measurements for every new emulations that came out since and that I could get my hands on. Keep in mind that all the hardware units of one specific model will not sound the same, and some emulations are based on different revisions of the same model. I brought my laptop with pretty much all the emulations I could find of those (except UAD, I don't have the cards), and measured them in PluginDoctor with the hardware at the same time. I was in a school last year where we had the privilege to spend multiple days in a studio with a lot of classic gear. Preamps = probably Soundtoys Decapitator (as it includes 5 different preamp types), but recently I've been using quite a lot of Arturia 1973 Roland Tape Echo = Arturia Tape 201 (although Audiothing's is probably more accurate, it's too aggressive sounding for me) VCA comp (in general) = Plugin Alliance Vertigo VSC-2 - got it after disappointing bx_townhouse buss comp, now I use it pretty regularly
Teletronix LA-2A style of opto-comp = although I hate Waves, so far I liked their CLA-2A the most
SSL channel = definitely brainworx_SSL 4000 E (not tried UAD though) What are your absolute favourites if you want to get closer to character of a specific analog gear? Here is my current "best in slot" list of plugins I have and enjoy, I'd be happy to find new tips on plugins from you:ġ176 = Softube FET compressor, best fet compressor period. massive discount of Softube plugins, it reignited my interest in hunting down best legendary gear emulations as, softube recreated a lot of the classics and many other companies as well.
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