Too late. I’m already demoing. The Gold 5 preamp plugin has 24 (1-24) different line preamp selections? Which is the 1073 preamp? I haven’t found it in the manual yet.
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I’m not sure I like the VoosteQ compressor more. After tweaking the compressor and limiter sections on the UA 2254, I think it could be just as usable as the VoosteQ for controlling the transients of this drum bus.
I do think the UA is more versatile due to the separate compressor and limiter sections with two different attack settings on each. I hope we get the UA 2254 as Native soon!
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Yeah, I'll always say ours is best due to the faith I have in the team.
Eric Dahlberg
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The 31 and Mod modes are a little better. Gold is still the winner for me and it just went on sale for €79.
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Yep, and I keep wanting the other modes to use that visual texture as well.
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Anyone else remember the Caribou Neve's?
They popped into my mind, and I tracked them down. This new site doesn't work very well at all, but I finally managed to get past the motion graphics and yadda yadda, and get to the plugins.
Here's the compressor: primestudio.at/en/plugins/prime-carcomp
I couldn't get any of these to function back when they first came out. Forgot about them since. Not much of anything out there on youtube either.
The phantom Neves?!?!?
They popped into my mind, and I tracked them down. This new site doesn't work very well at all, but I finally managed to get past the motion graphics and yadda yadda, and get to the plugins.
Here's the compressor: primestudio.at/en/plugins/prime-carcomp
I couldn't get any of these to function back when they first came out. Forgot about them since. Not much of anything out there on youtube either.
The phantom Neves?!?!?
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I’m trying the preamps on bass guitar. I prefer the NoiseAsh and VoosteQ over Gold, UA, and Arturia so far. The last three seem to have more high end fizz and the saturation doesn’t seem as much a part of the original signal to me. All quick preliminary thoughts. I need to listen and fiddle more. But I’m really liking the NoiseAsh and VoosteQ saturation on bass.
I think I need some tips on how to use the Acustica Gold. I’m not even sure what line/mic preamp is emulating the 1073 or 1084. They mentioned a bus 1073 but I don’t think that’s what I need for comparison purposes. Any advice for me, Eric?
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I’ve never seen those.
Tried the 1084 preamps on a drum bus and again preferred the NoiseAsh and VoosteQ saturation over the Gold 5, UA, and Softube. But again, I’m not sure what Gold 5 settings best represent the 1084 preamp sound. And I don’t know which plugin is more faithful to the 1084 hardware saturation.
I also messed around with the 2254 again on the drum bus. I think my favorite is the Lindell, followed closely by UA. VoosteQ sounds great but doesn’t have the versatility of the previous two since it lacks separate compressor and limiter sections. Gold 5 compressor plugin sounded good too but was harder to control the peaks even using limit ratio, fastest attack and release. It also lacks separate compressor and limiter sections. The Softube 2254 is still my least favorite. Again, just preliminary thoughts from fiddling for a few minutes.
I also messed around with the 2254 again on the drum bus. I think my favorite is the Lindell, followed closely by UA. VoosteQ sounds great but doesn’t have the versatility of the previous two since it lacks separate compressor and limiter sections. Gold 5 compressor plugin sounded good too but was harder to control the peaks even using limit ratio, fastest attack and release. It also lacks separate compressor and limiter sections. The Softube 2254 is still my least favorite. Again, just preliminary thoughts from fiddling for a few minutes.
Eric Dahlberg
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Those are Acqua plugins. I think he owns a Neve 8068 so I guess the plugin is probably made with impulses from that.
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I know this is a UAD forum, but the Lindel 254e kicks butt. The UA is great too, it's just different. These are the best 2254 compressor plugins for getting real work done in real life, in my opinion, of the ones I've heard.
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Eric Dahlberg
Purveyor of musical dreams fullfilled.
I was just using the default preamp when I was comparing them. I like how it takes the bite off the transients without sounding like saturation. But VoosteQ is cool, too, and I can understand why you like it's more saturated sound more than Gold.
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Voost is indeed nice on bass for the saturation being prominent, yet not exactly fizzy. The bass boost probably pleases bassists too, I would imagine (as a mixer, more bass on bass is just more problems in my experience... I don't want it to be true, but nobody listens on large full range hifi speakers anymore, and you cant mix for them!)
So you’re using it more subtly? I was cranking up the input until I got very obvious saturation out of all the preamps. To me the Gold and UA had more high end fizz in the saturation, which I guess I might prefer in some cases for a crisper sound? But I’m glad you mentioned the NoiseAsh. I’m really digging it.
Yeah I’m really liking the Lindell so far. It’ll probably be my main 2254 with the VoosteQ as an alternate. If the UA was native I would use it too
It had lovely saturation on the bass I tested. It stayed for the duration of the note but never got harsh. Whereas some of the others would have that high end fizz that would be on the loudest part of the note but disappear after the initial attack. So the saturation didn’t sound as consistent. But maybe I needed to tweak things further.
But the NoiseAsh is impressing me too. I may have to snag it while it’s on sale.
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Honestly, the hardware doesn't do what the voost does either in that situation. Credit where credit is due: Voost has some cool flavors in it.
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Really? Is the hardware more like the UA high end fizz? Or is the hardware different from both to you?
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In the sweet spot, probably at least 60% of the Neve 73 plugins have saturation that's close enough to hardware to use and make music. When I want overt saturation and distortion, I don't personally reach for a microphone preamp, whether hardware or software. There are much better devices and plugins and tricks for the task.
A plugin that comes to mind, that doesn't really turn into fizz, is the "drive" control on the Klanghelm MJUC. The compressor action on MJUC is not often to my taste, but it sounds good.
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