Crow Preamp emulates the way tube preamps behave and sound. It will add the typical saturation and warmth of real tubes to your digital tracks!
Crow preamp emulator is very easy to use, and there are only a few parameters for you to handle: input level, tube drive amount, tube type selection, output level and a power switch.
BAXXPANDER:
Vintage style saturation/bass expander unit,
presented as VST effect. We think this plugin is specially good to add warmth and saturation to drums
and basses, and with vocal tracks that need a little punch. It uses very little CPU, and includes 8 factory presets.
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- Useful for general sound shaping or extreme destruction.
- The effect gets very interesting when you automate the sweep of the crossovers while the resonance is set medium to high.
- If you set the high or low bands' gain to 0, it acts almost like a
resonant LPF or HPF, or both simultaneously.
Pluggo is an extraordinary set of multiplatform audio plugins. (AU/RTAS/VST) I'm sharing several free ones made with MAX/MSP . You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it. Installation will create a Pluggo folder inside /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST (OSX) - or - /Digidesign/ProTools (OS9). To install my pluggos - simply drop it into Pluggo folder and start your Cubase/Logic/ProTools.
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PWMDrive is a softclipper with offset. I came up with the idea when reading about old tube-amplifiers where the distorsion wasn't symmetrical around zero.
I called it PWMDrive since it can produce sounds similar to a pulse-width-modulated square wave.
The waveshaping function is 1-(1/(1+x)). Actually its like that on positive x, and symmetrical around zero) I'm not sure if this is similar to a "real" tube, but it's ok, if you have any suggestions on different shape-functions, that have similar (or less) cost, please let me know.
An sweet-sounding oversampling option is provided, mainly meant to be used at mixdown-time, since it's rather expensive.
The steps performed are:
Measure the amplitude,
DC-Offset signal depending on amplitude (lfo-controlled),
Gain,
SoftClip,
HiPass (to remove dc),
Gain.
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Firegain:
Firegain is a 3-band (soft-)clipper / shaper.
Divide the signal into three frequency bands using box-filters.
Applies soft clipping to each of the bands.
Recombine the signals to create a final signal.
It introduces a small delay depending on the lower frequency.
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