Acustica Audio Acqua Plugins Guide!!!
Highly-detailed plug-in recreations and refinements of vintage, classic and modern studio hardware gears.
Acustica Audio Acqua Plugin Recommendations!!!
Updated: 2nd May 2024 (Sand Ultra)
***The characteristics/tone description derives from EQ or compressors used (tweaked) while introducing a little bit of “vibe” when you insert the plugin with preamp engaged.
Aero - a creative tool for sound design, focused on electric guitars and it is also great for processing re-amping other instruments.
Characteristics: Adds body, sounds realistic, dynamic, drive, fuzz & distortion.
Tip: VST Synths sounds freakishly real after a pass with Aero Amp.
Amber - pure Class A optical compressor & a redesigned iconic equalizer.
Characteristics: Transparent, deep, natural, creamy, warm, thicken sounds & imparts a sort of credible sheen.
Tip: Drive your mix into Preamp 2 - super glue/roundness.
Amber Ultra - suite includes a Pure Class A music equalizer, a Stereo Equalizer, a Pure Class A opto-compressor, a collection of Pure Class A Preamp emulations and a superb Channelstrip offering a wide range of sonic possibilities for your mixes.
Characteristics: Transparent, deep, natural, creamy, warm, thicken sounds, smooth & imparts a sort of credible sheen.
Tip: The secret weapon of many renowned mixing engineers to give some air to vocals and top-end to a mix.
Amethyst - inspired by British consoles from the late 70s - early 80s and early 90s.
Characteristics: Vintage, punchy, cinematic, smooth & musical.
Tip: Amethyst on 2500 BUS preamp on the mixbus does something to the Z dimension in the mix.
Ash - (Only models the clipping) a collection of classic clipping circuits of the most revered high-end converters.
Characteristics: Clean, open, preserve transients, rich, wide, glue & LOUD master.
Ash Ultra - The Ultimate Clipping Powerhouse.
Characteristics: Clean, open, preserve transients, rich, wide, glue & LOUD master.
Tip: 1024x oversampling for more depth and deeper bass.
Aquamarine - a high-end mastering and mixing plugin suite which is ideal on virtually all kinds of musical genres thanks to its extended versatility.
Characteristics: Big, powerful, warm, smooth, glue, musical tone > useful to shape + colour individual busses & tracks.
Tip: Used together with the Opto part which smooths out the dynamics before hitting the VCA where you can then "shape" it further.
Azure - a custom-made vacuum tube passive mastering EQ by Zino Mikorey.
Characteristics: Transparent, super smooth, detailed & focus.
Tip: 22k and 27k boost!!!
Black - recreate in the digital domain that warm and tone rich feeling that an analog setup is capable of delivering. Vol A to D Pre- amplifications Expansion.
Characteristics: Adds depth, tone shaper & top end softener.
Tip: Rain Lily RN2 “line in” for orchestral and VST.
Blond - rare vintage units manufactured in Italy from up to 60 years ago.
Characteristics: Musical, juicy curves, full of colors & velvety textured while still being transparent.
Tip: Premixer with the Binson EQ..Magic!!!
Brown - rare units from the late 1940s to the present day, as manufactured by great pioneers in the field. They have been used to grace the sound of immortal records by Frank Sinatra, Beach Boys, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Foo Fighters, in studios like Capitol Records, A&M Records, Motown West, Record Plant, and more.
Characteristics: Very musical, punchy, fat but lean, firm, its detailed & the transient are incredible.
Tip: Low End with 444 EQ!!!
Camel - two iconic vintage British brands (1973) that have earned a reputation as industry leaders for their innovation and technological achievements.
Characteristics: Classy, vintage flavor, focus, musical, smooth, open, thick & superb low end.
Tip: Camel's B pre and eq modules, the perfect solution for the first line of treatment ITB to mimic a tracking console.
Cardinal - an ultra rare '70s custom-built console, the sonic signature of the iconic Cinderella Sound founded by the legendary Wayne Moss.
Characteristics: Musical & open.
Ceil/Celestial/Cerise - features five different iconic 'British' designs in one comprehensive production collection.
Characteristics: Tight, punchy, polish, transparent with some sheen, adds that transformer maturity in tone & size when pushed.
Cherry - first Acustica's mastering 4-band "Hyper" EQ, sampled from two notorious mastering EQ devices and its magic lies in the curves and low frequencies, which are highly defined, bringing them closer to the original hardware.
Characteristics: Solid low end, transparent, focus, neutral, soft & smooth.
Tip1: Try "STRAWPRE (∑-TR) -> CHERRY" combo.
Tip2: Cherry + Coffee EQ.
Cobalt - officially endorsed by the hardware maker, Luca Martegani, a series of hand-built vacuum tube processors characterized by a warm, expensive and unique sound.
Characteristics: Natural, clean, transparent, smooth & open.
Coffee - nothing short of a mojo monster. Inspired by the world of 'vintage 60’s' but re-engineered in a contemporary fashion, preserving the feeling of authenticity that most engineers look for in modern productions.
Characteristics: Musical, bold, weighty & colorful.
Tip: Dual Mono approach > Line#22 on Masterbuss...Incredible!!!
Cola - a rare vintage British console from 1972. Used to shape the immortal sound of iconic albums by AC/DC, Queen, Clash, Sex Pistols and many more.
Characteristics: Vintage, warm, creamy & glue.
Coral - a hybrid mastering strip, enabling you to shape the tone of your masters further.
Characteristics: Transparent, huge sound, smooth, gluey, rich & focus.
Tip: Secret weapon - Compressors.
Cream - ultra-rare vintage console between the late '50s to the early ‘70s.
Characteristics: Vintage, solid, open, smooth, clean nature, solid lows with pleasant top end, brings clarity & focus.
Tip: Greg Wells > I swear things sound better simply running through Cream in factory default setting.
Crimson - dynamic overdrive harmonics generator.
Characteristics: Saturation + distortion - harmonic generator, warmth & rich.
Desert - a unique, recapped recording/mixing desk from the early 1960s.
Characteristics: Warm, wide, colour toolbox, big, rich, juicy sounds with a muscle, opens up the mix - increases the sense of depth & instrument separation.
Diamond Color EQ - a collaboration with Studio DMI, the secret ingredient to crafting heavy-hitting, radio-ready songs that punch.
Characteristics: Slick, glossy & punchy. Realism, depth, and width are spot on with high end analog gear - embellish & enhance sounds.
Diamond Dynamic Saturator - color and tone combinations of Luca Pretolesi's favorite hardware saturation units in a single plugin.
Characteristics: Creamy analog vibe, punchy, tight, depth & openness to it's sound.
Tip: Best usage > drums and stereo bus processing.
Diamond Lift - a versatile and powerful easy to use plug-in that can be used to quickly bring a synth or vocal to the front of a mix, or transform a dull track into a thick, exciting and loud final master.”
Characteristics: “Broad stroke" enhancer - Adds thickness, depth & focus transparently.
Diamond Transient - outstanding versatility of the suite makes it ideal for virtually any genre, ranging from Electronic, Latin, Rap, and Hip-Hop to the heaviest Metal and Rock.
Characteristics: Makes things POP OUT, polish, distinct, punchy and bold.
Tip: Great on drums, synths & vocals. A nice finalizer & incredible tool for mastering.
Dove - a potent Dynamic Harmonics Compressor/Suppressor and a De-Harsher.
Characteristics: Musical, natural, transparent, open & smooth.
Tip1: Dove + Green Ultra + Ash Ultra & Lace on Master.
Tip2: Dove + Magic Flow on vocals.
Tip3: Dual Dove with different settings.
Druma - an easy-to-use drum processor designed to be used as a drum bus tool to refine your drum kit and add density and life when needed.
Characteristics: Adds snap, clarity & low-end on drums.
Ebony - plug-in suite, built between the '60s and the '70s by pro- audio German and Dutch companies.
Characteristics: Wide sound stage, seamless smooth, natural & organic.
El Rey - collaboration with multiple GRAMMY®-nominated producer, songwriter, musician and mixing engineer Greg Wells.
Characteristics: Fat, weighty, smooth, warmth & depth with glue.
Emerald - Unique sounding equalizer built in Germany between the '60s and the '70s.
Characteristics: Vintage, transparent, musical & warmth.
Eminence (Free) - a “creamy” ultra-rare '60s British channel strip.
Characteristics: Sounds expensive, adds depth, musical, creamy & punchy.
Erin - luxury mastering equipment as manufactured by one of the most prestigious and appreciated designers in the world since the early '70s for his innovative approach in the field of tube-based systems for the high-end, hi-fi market.
Characteristics: Punchy, precise, smooth & dynamic galore.
Tip: Erin Brickwall2 after Fire the Clip...BOOOOM!!!
Fire Filter - high-pass filters and the same number of low-pass filters (LP), for a total of 26 different filters.
Characteristics: Smooth, natural & lush.
Fire the Ash - this update is available in Aquarius and free for current Ash owners.
Characteristics: Clean, open, preserve transients, rich, wide, glue & LOUD master.
Fire the Bus+ - the magic bus 'beautifier'.
Characteristics: Open, glue, deep dynamic character, detailed, smooth, rich & dimensional.
Fire the Bass - elevate bass frequencies, ensuring that your bass is audible even on the most modest of sound systems.
Characteristics: Add harmonics to the low end that sounds musical.
Fire the Clip - the “ultra-linear” clipper plugin.
Characteristics: Super clean, loud & natural.
Fire the Dees - the first-ever de-esser plugin based on a prestigious mastering analog EQ.
Characteristics: Sounds natural and fast to setup.
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Fire the EXP - the ultimate tool for adding liveliness and freshness to your audio.
Characteristics: Adds attack, excitement, improving clarity & punch to your music.
Fire the Gold (Free) - class-A preamps with Input-Output transformers, the authentic 'golden' British sound.
Characteristics: Firm & edgy.
Tip: Fire The Gold at 13:00 with ultra activated. (This simulates passing through a Neve 1073 preamp for recording)
Fire the Pan - effortlessly giving you more depth and definition in the stereo field.
Characteristics: Space, clarity, open & natural. Things sit in a more defined space, detail in the positioning & space for more sounds to fit in.
Tip: D Analog (059) - Hybrid Ultrapanner. Set the left slider between 3 - 5 notches (those white line markers) to start.
Fire the Tilt - improve your track by making it sit better in a mix, maybe you want to make it almost instantly more 'vibrant' and 'warm' or on the contrary 'cold' and 'less intrusive'.
Characteristics: Clean, depth & transparent. Useful for re-balancing sounds on the fly.
Frost - allow you to better manage your sounds by making them 'marry' in a beautiful and cohesive way, creating that much sought-after 'glue'.
Characteristics: Ultra-clean, fat, upfront forward sounding, aggressive, warm & musical.
Tip: Combo > Frost Comp with Celestial or Sand.
Gainstation - collaboration with Studio DMI and super producer Mike Dean, a 21st Century plugin for anything distortion and creative sound mangling.
Characteristics: Ballsy, aggressive, punchy, wide, tight, fat bottom, able to provide a smoothness & thickness that still allow detail to shine through.
Tip: Gainstation VSM - breathes "life" into the dullest of tracks.
Gold - inspired by 60ʼs British Console.
Characteristics: Vintage, fat, thick mid range tone, silky, open, enhance space & depth.
Tip: Use Gold pre on everything.
Graphite - dedicated to the needs of bassists, and without a doubt, it is one of the most modern sounding bass amps emulations, fully endorsed by GR Bass.
Characteristics: Alive, focused, warm & big.
Tip: Combine Graphite with Lava for more microphone tonal options!
Green - a plug-in suite that faithfully emulates industry-standard, high-end processors found in recording studios across the globe, made in the USA and designed by one of the most famous and respected recording engineers in the world, the inventor of parametric equalization.
Characteristics: Edgy, astonishing precision and sonic accuracy, clean & powerful - tone shaping.
Green Ultra - New ‘Aria’ engine supporting our new EQ, dynamic and real-time metering displays, our powerful Anti-Aliasing algorithm with reduced CPU consumption.
Characteristics: "Definition" & "dimension" to everything, astonishing precision and sonic accuracy, clean & powerful - tone shaping.
Grey Pro/Ultra - faithfully emulates 3 of the best American VCA-based compressors from the same renown brand, well known for its ability to enhance low-end cohesion and deliver a classic, vintage character with minimal distortion.
Characteristics: Forward push & smooth.
Honey - a world Class ‘American’ Console 1975 - Michael Jackson's "Thriller", Paul Simon's "Graceland", as well as many hits by AC/DC, ABBA, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and many more.
Characteristics: Rich, warm, colorful smooth highs end, big, deep, punchy, clean, alive & musical.
HWMC - in collaboration with Howie Weinberg, the multi-Grammy®winning Mastering Engineer, hardware chain that countersigns Howie's signature sound and packs it into a powerful all in one interface with a sensational and distinctive sound, to enhance and elevate your music.
Characteristics: Big, open, detailed, musical, warm highs, natural, size & full of depth.
Tip: Secret sauce are the ADC/DAC converters.
Indigo - 'must have' iconic units from different brands that have earned a reputation as leaders primarily in the field of high-end mastering.
Characteristics: Weight, beefiness, impactful, lush, organic, bold, depth & nice presence.
Tip: Cheat code for big impactful mixes > EQ1 & EQ2 😎
Ivory - a mastering-grade tools, transparent yet extremely musical processors suite that shines on just about everything you throw it on.
Characteristics: Transparent, clean soft tone, pristine, subtle & precise, makes everything distinctively more alive & known as a universal smoothen-er.
Tip: Most preferred by users > Pre OFF for ultra clean.
Jade - 40k Magic, a warm and smooth sound, that retains a remarkable naturalness, while also providing absolute transparency and top-end sheen.
Characteristics: Smooth, clean, transparent & pristine.
Tip: 40K use in moderation.
Jam - a collection of saturation effects based on top-tier hardware.
Characteristics: Subtle to violent distortion, warm, punchy, expand dimension & add depth.
Tip1: Its strength is the MIX engine.
Tip2: The secret of Jam is to use the preamp and saturate with a mix engine and a specific value lower than 100%.
Jet - dynamic equalizer plugin suite, inspired by very special gear that includes one of the best, renowned, and versatile Bus Compressors made in the UK.
Vol A to C Expansion.
Characteristics: Adds realism to any sound, musical, clarity, depth, separation, add size & width.
Lace - an advanced, true peak, brick wall limiter, designed to elevate your loudness levels without compromising sound quality.
Characteristics: Adds clarity, weighty, warmth, sounds musical, wide, punchy, open & dynamic.
Tip1: Try 'simple - low aliasing'.
Tip2: Ash into Lace.
Tip3: Ghost's preset as starting point.
Lava - recreates the tone of classic microphones including the microphones’ response, harmonic content and proximity effect. Over 140 microphone emulations (100 source mics plus 41 destination mics).
Characteristics: Tone shaper, presence, warm, detailed, focus, organic, sparkle in a sweet & pleasing way.
Tip: Synths > select the Shure 57 as the “from” mic — couple this with a ribbon, or 251 and try a little distance slider. This can really reduce the tell-tale signs of it being a VSTi.
Lemon - multi Tap Delay, 40 programs are able to faithfully reproduce the behavior and sound of many different hardware delay machines, both vintage and modern.
Characteristics: Smooth blend with wide multi tap delay, sweet, musical, organic, a tone colouration with the Filter & EQ.
Review: It just blends so effortlessly into any mix, at any settings. This is probably one of the finest delay plugins ever created. If this was within a hardware box at zero latency, it would probably be considered one of the best delay hardware ever created.
Lime - sound of a legendary inline mixing desk from 1980s (old and modern “N” legendary inline mixing desk) and delivers the unmistakable quality and sonic imprint that defines British sound.
Characteristics: Big deep, weighty width & thick earthy sound.
Magenta - tonal shaping and sculpting suite. A must-have for mixing and mastering.
Characteristics: Warm, precise, punchy, smooth, soft & organic/natural.
Tip: The 'secret' of MAGENTA...learn how the 'Q' affects the curves.
Magic Flow - an accurate digital representation of Josh Gudwin’s signature sound, combining specific features of several hardware and digital devices into a single, carefully designed for a fast audio workflow based on his everyday workflow.
Characteristics: Vocal enhancer, solid & punchy.
Maize - embodies the main features of the PP10, an equalizer extremely precise but at the same time very musical.
Characteristics: Smooth, clarity, definition & deep bass.
Midnight - the Ultimate Vari-mu Tube compressor collection universally considered the most iconic dynamics processor to date.
Characteristics: Smooth, thick & weighty.
Mint - the GL2112, a very rare console built by a hardware design guru in the 1970s. A desk whose sound is rather aggressive and requires careful control, qualitatively made with high level components that effectively render the sounds we are looking forʼ.
Characteristics: Punchy, thick, colorful, classy, glue, musical, silky smooth & open.
Mystic - an All-Tube Channel Strip (A Pure vacuum tube Pre/saturator Module with High and Low Pass filters, an easy-to-use Baxandall type EQ section, and finally, a 'Frankenstein' optical limiter) effortlessly shape your tracks making them round, vibrant, full and musical.
Characteristics: Euphoric, sounds natural, wide, sweet & detailed.
Navy - a classic British console (2000s era). Two cherished modern dynamic processors made in the UK: a 2254 reissue (1969) and a modern 33609 (1973) an evolution of the 2254 itself.
Characteristics: Presence, forward sounding, crisp, clean, open, add fatness & glassiness to a sound.
Nickel - a "Made in the USA" plugin suite consisting of four different plugins that include emulations of rare units from the late 60s to the present day, paying homage to the genius of Bill Putnam one of the greatest audio engineer and pioneers in the Pro Audio industry.
Characteristics: Instant 1176 mojo, dynamic, solid & lush.
Tip: Use SOA for dynamics control!!!
Ocean - multi-band processing tool.
Characteristics: Transparent, smooth & improve soundstage.
Tip: Francesco Donadel Campbell Mastering HQ preset.
Olive - legendary mixing console early 70’s.
Characteristics: Open, organic, natural, musical, warm & smooth.
Tip: Use Expander to increase dynamic range. (Try aggressive settings and blend Dry/WET)
Opal - fully recreates the exquisite Oram Sonics Hi-Def 55 EQ designed by John Oram.
Characteristics: Musical, sweet, open, natural & clean with distinct vibe.
Opal Comp- based on the Sonicomp compressor technology, known for its precision optical and solid-state limiter/compressor capabilities.
Characteristics: Musical, smooth & clean.
Pearl - unique, inspired suite by a vintage 60's Italian device. Limited Edition (not available).
Pearl 1 - 100 copies only (2015) & Pearl 2 - 300 copies only (2017).
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Characteristics: Musical, super silky, magical, superb top end, big & open.
Pensado EQ - collaboration with Grammy®-winning mix engineer Dave Pensado, a scrupulous - almost obsessive - analysis of all those fine details that characterize Dave's unique workflow and approach to mixing.
*The perfect sought-after sound of modern Hip-Hop, Pop and Electronic productions.
Characteristics: Clean, creamy and three-dimensional, high end sheen is gorgeous, forward, polish & fat.
Tip: Jaysen Joshua uses Pre 2 with 50 or 80 Hz boost on drumbuss.
Pink - well known American studio gear from the late '60s.
Characteristics: Aggressive, punchy, a little dark - right amount of hi-fi sweetness & roundness.
Pumpkin Pro - infuse your tracks with lively harmonic depth, coloration, revitalizing your audio.
Characteristics: Open, adds some edge, warm sizzle crunch & breath some excitement to the mix.
Purple - legendary silky-smooth passive EQ plugins collection.
Characteristics: Wide, fat, pillowy, silky and open - add “something special” to a recording, simply by having signals passed through them.
Tip: Use the “Low end EQ trick” to add weight.
Ruby - a collaboration with D.W.Fearn (VT-5 vacuum-tube equalizer)
Characteristics: High Fidelity - Smooth, sweet & deep.
Rust (Motown) - the sound of an ultra-rare, all-analogue, passive, seven-band fixed EQ considered today as the ‘Holy Grail’ 1960s of classic EQs.
Characteristics: Warm, open sound, smooth, sweet, round, deep, big, natural tone & gentle top end.
Salt - offers three distinct Classic EQ models, all powered by Hyper3 technology, providing an exceptional tool for your daily mixing and sound shaping needs.
Characteristics: Smooth, solid, clean, dramatic, sounds alive, snappy, punchy, & more.
Tip: GOLD - SAND - SAND -SAND -SAND is just beast-mode for EDM/Hiphop/Electronic.
Sand - a high-end British consoles that literally dominated the Pop and Rock scene from the '80s onward.
Characteristics: Mid range punch, precise, musical, the infamous “glue” - dynamic & aggressive in your face "Smack" sound.
Tip: Comp with 4:1 ratio, slowest attack/fastest release, light compression.
Sand Ultra ("Different plugin suite from Sand3!!")- a high-end British consoles that literally dominated the Pop and Rock scene from the '80s onward 'Hyperized'.
Characteristics: Clean, smooth, precise, musical, polite & polish sounding, the infamous “glue” - dynamic & aggressive in your face "Smack" sound.
Scarlet - mastering EQ, specialized mastering devices designed in the '70s by two legendary pioneers, considered the most ingenious minds in the field of music recording technology.
Characteristics: Super smooth, firm, clean & transparent.
Sienna (Tools) - recreates the same listening experience as if you were mixing in top-tier studios, mastering in audiophile-grade rooms, or playing back your tracks on HI-FI systems, car stereos, boomboxes, and more, all through your headphones.
Results: Feeling of real life monitoring with good translation, balance & depth.
Tip: Top favourite preset > B01 Studio Spitfire: Siri0800 (Sub)
Sienna Sphere (Tools) - a multi-format binaural tool suite for immersive sound > (2.0 – 5.1 – 5.1.2 – 5.1.4 – 7.1.2 – 7.1.4 – 7.1.6 – 9.1.4 – 9.1.6).
Results: Immersive & spatial audio experience.
Chill time > Cinema Row 5/7 (Sub) for watching surround movies.
Silver - to use real physical spaces for reverberation because they sound more natural, as it is the way we perceive space in our daily experience.
Vol A to N Expansion.
Characteristics: Alive, realistic, natural, organic, smooth, musical & 3D.
> I don't get reverb added to my mix - it's more like the other way round - my mix gets transported into a space, a room, a church, with no effort at all.
Smoke - hands down some of the best tube gear ever built in the Pro Audio Market. The 'valve sound' is classic and absolutely unparalleled, and it dominated the sound of hit radio in the 1960ʼs.
Characteristics: Warm, big, fat, weight, smooth, musical & 3D-ish.
Snow - a suite of four plugins emulating modern British-style gear, artfully designed by the most celebrated personality in the history of professional audio and representing the culmination of his extensive knowledge of analog circuits.
Characteristics: Warm, soft, rich, transparent, smooth, large and wide, open, musical, punchy, depth & classy.
Tip: DEPTH and WIDTH controls on MB are nothing short of amazing, just keep in mind that a little goes a long way.
Sounda - sound of modern Pop, EDM, Hip-Hop, Trap and Electronic productions.
Characteristics: Clean & defined.
Tip: Find the sweet spot.
Space Control - a multi-band stereo enhancer including a never seen before phase limiter which makes sure you can widen your sound, the ultimate stereo tool and the only one that you will ever need."
Characteristics: Manipulate stereo image/width & natural multi-band widening effect.
Straw - a legendary custom console from the 1970s from Memphis Magnetic Recording Co. sound.
Characteristics: Very musical, sound alive, punchy, aggressive and warm.
Sunray - the power of modern sound with a vintage twist
- catering to the recording, post-production, broadcast, and live sound industries.
Characteristics: Musical, sweet top end, clean, warm, creates a nice sense of space & clarity.
Tan (Free) - a tiny little glorious sounding compressor.
Characteristics: Sense of depth/space, musical, responsive, super punchy, glue, good clarity, thick & snappy.
Taupe - 21 analog and digital tape machines from the 50 - 90’s.
Joe Carrell: 'Taupe is top. It’s simply the best tape emulation software on the market'. Characteristics: Silky, round, gluey, fat & open.
Best preset: A0
Tiger - 'Hyper' technology encompassing a superlative collection of Acustica's most renowned compressors.
Characteristics: Incredible shaping options, glue, tight, effortless, smooth to aggressive, open, punchy, retain more space around the source & respects the source.
Tiger Mix Ultra - "Enhanced" visual control on our new Aria engine, featuring a high-quality dithering algorithm with eight modes and 5 dithering bit depths.
Characteristics: Incredible shaping options, glue, tight, effortless, smooth to aggressive, open, punchy, retain more space around the source & respects the source.
Titanium - an all-tube dreamware suite of plugins giving you unprecedented sonic power for your mixes.
Characteristics: Natural, warmth round compression, organic, punch & “alive”.
Tip: For CLB1 emulation, use the Titanium 1 band compressor.
Tulip - ‘Boutique Collection’ suite of plug-ins pays tribute to a prestigious Dutch electronics company that from the 1950s.
Characteristics: Smack, weighty, clean, adds depth front to back, glues the low mids, robust & analog lush sound.
Ultramarine - mid-side stereo compressor, vintage vacuum-tube dynamic processor designed in the early ‘50s.
Characteristics: Punch, gritty, creamy, magical, warm, transparent, smooth & clean.
Tip: The A27 & A-58 are the secret gem.
Viridian - legendary British solid-state vintage studio gear tone essence of the 60s and 70s.
Characteristics: Vintage, classic, warm, silky smooth & musical.
Voxa - the perfect easy-to-use tool to improve your vocals instantly, make them shine, and add richness, presence, breath, and detail.
Characteristics: As per product description above.
Water - rare vintage hardware devices in the 60ʼs.
Characteristics: Warm, solid, thick, creamy, aggressive, forward sounding & huge.
Tip: Use High Shelf & preamp on VST soft synths. HPF 30Hz on kicks, subs, 808 etc.
White - mastering EQ, a recreation of their WSM units. A solid- state P-style equalizer with dual-mono channel typology and a dual-line preamplifier.
Characteristics: Broad, clean, smooth & effortless.
Tip: Secret weapon (Broad/Sharp) knob.
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"Ultra" Plugins
Amber Ultra
Ash Ultra
Grey Pro/Ultra
Green Ultra
Tiger MIx Ultra
“Hyper” Plugins
Amber Ultra
Arctic
Ash & Ash Ultra
Aquamarine5 “Comp”
Cardinal
Cherry (First Hyper EQ)
Cola2 “Comp”
Diamond Dynamic Saturator
Diamond Lift 4 "Clip, Comp & Saturation"
El Rey 2 (Standard Mode not hyperized)
Erin “Comp”
Fire The Bus+
Fire The Clip
Fire The Dees
Fire The Exp
Fire The Gold
Fire The Pan
Fire The Pump
Frost
Green Ultra
Grey Pro
Gold5 "Pre and Comp"
Jam
Lace
Midnight
Mystic
Ocean
Olive "Comp, Saturation, Filters & Pre"
OpalComp
Pumpkin Pro
Salt
Sand Ultra
Scarlet5 "Pre"
Straw "Pre"
Sunray "Comp & Pre"
Tan2
Tiger & Tiger Mix Ultra
Tulip
Water3 "Comp & Pre"
Algo
Frost EQ > For brevity of explanation, we describe it as algorithmic. Actually only the equalizer is "algorithmic," and it mimics the curves of a particular hardware dynamic equalizer. The technique is similar to that seen in products of other competitors: you match the shapes of the equalization curves with a digital equalizer (if the reference equalizer is minimum phase, the resulting process will be quite accurate) - from Giancarlo.
Space Control
Magic Flow
Vintage/Classic
Amethyst :"2500" 80’s
Aquamarine “Passive EQ” 50’s
Blond 60 years ago’
Brown 40’
s
Cardinal 70's
Camel 1973’
Coffee 60’ s
Cola 1972’ s
Cream 50 - 70’s
Desert 60’ s
Ebony 60 - 70’s
Emerald 60 - 70’s
Eminence 60's
El Rey 50’s
Erin 70’s
Gold 60’s
Honey 1975’ s
Lime 80’s
Mint 70’s
Nickel 60’s
Olive 70's
Pearl 60’s
Pink 60’s
Purple 50’s
Rust 60’s
Salt 60 - 80's
Scarlet 70’s
Smoke 60’s
Straw 70's
Taupe 50 - 90’s
Tulip 50’s
Ultramarine 50’s
Viridian 60 - 70’s
Water 60’s
80’s - 2024’
Amber & Amber Ultra
Aero
Amethyst "9098"
Ash & Ash Ultra
Aquamarine “Comp”
Azure
Black
Ceil/Celestial/Cerise
Cherry
Cobalt
Coral
Crimson
Desert
Dove
Diamond plug-ins
Druma
Frost
Fire plug-ins
Gainstation
Graphite
Green
& Green Ultra
Grey Pro
HWMC
Indigo
Ivory
Jade
Jam
Jet
Lace
Lava
Lemon
Magenta
Magic Flow
Maize
Midnight
Navy
Ocean
Opal
OpalComp
Pensado EQ
Pumpkin Pro
Ruby
Sand /Sand Ultra
Silver
Snow
Sounda
Space Control
Sunray
Tan
Tiger & Tiger Mix Ultra
Titanium
Voxa
White
Tools
Sienna & Sienna Sphere
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