Jan
03
03
Happy new year!
The latest addition to our Redline Series is called Preamp, and surprise surprise: it emulates an analogue-style preamp. You may recognize some of its functionality from the Harmonic Distortion section of Redline Equalizer, except Preamp is sort of like a bigger brother to what's on offer there. Some very dramatic artwork to get the saliva going:
Once upon a time during its beta cycle, Redline Equalizer didn't actually feature harmonic distortion. The way we work is we sollicit ideas and feedback from our beta testers, and some one--there may have been more, it's been a while--suggested that since it already featured vintage-style EQ curves we might as well go the whole hog and add some vintage-style harmonic distortion as well.
While I was investigating--and the fun part: experimenting with--this I came up with a great many ideas on how to implement a great-sounding distortion section. (You see, that's the great thing about writing plugins as opposed to "just" using them. You get to try lots of ideas, which in turn lead to new ideas, and so on. The hard part is pruning everything down to size afterwards so the final plugin doesn't have a gazillion knobs and sliders and whatnot for every tiny little feature. Usability and lots of features tend don't get along all that well.)
To make a long story short, Redline Preamp is the culmination of my ideas on how to build a really flexible harmonic-distortion-and-more section. It has a lot of features (and much more going on internally--you won't believe the amount of work that goes on internally when you turn the Warmth knob, for example) . It can do vintage-style coloration, convincing tape saturation, very subtle analogue seasoning, and full-blown grunge. It can do mid/side processing and even has the ubiquitous wet/dry control, so you can make the signal as dirty or clean as you like. But the best part: it sounds great! Don't think distortion in the traditional sense, but instead vintage or analogue flavor: everything's nice and subtle, and as such Preamp is not so much an effect as a tool. At times you probably won't notice it's there, but I promise you will notice when you bypass it!
Also we managed to keep the CPU load really low, so you'll be able to insert a copy on every channel and not even notice it much. And unlike Equalizer is has absolutely ZERO latency, so that's one less thing to worry about.
I'm very excited about it and I'm sure you will too--once you hear it, of course. It definitely shouldn't be long.
And oops, I almost forget: happy new year!
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Once upon a time during its beta cycle, Redline Equalizer didn't actually feature harmonic distortion. The way we work is we sollicit ideas and feedback from our beta testers, and some one--there may have been more, it's been a while--suggested that since it already featured vintage-style EQ curves we might as well go the whole hog and add some vintage-style harmonic distortion as well.
While I was investigating--and the fun part: experimenting with--this I came up with a great many ideas on how to implement a great-sounding distortion section. (You see, that's the great thing about writing plugins as opposed to "just" using them. You get to try lots of ideas, which in turn lead to new ideas, and so on. The hard part is pruning everything down to size afterwards so the final plugin doesn't have a gazillion knobs and sliders and whatnot for every tiny little feature. Usability and lots of features tend don't get along all that well.)
To make a long story short, Redline Preamp is the culmination of my ideas on how to build a really flexible harmonic-distortion-and-more section. It has a lot of features (and much more going on internally--you won't believe the amount of work that goes on internally when you turn the Warmth knob, for example) . It can do vintage-style coloration, convincing tape saturation, very subtle analogue seasoning, and full-blown grunge. It can do mid/side processing and even has the ubiquitous wet/dry control, so you can make the signal as dirty or clean as you like. But the best part: it sounds great! Don't think distortion in the traditional sense, but instead vintage or analogue flavor: everything's nice and subtle, and as such Preamp is not so much an effect as a tool. At times you probably won't notice it's there, but I promise you will notice when you bypass it!
Also we managed to keep the CPU load really low, so you'll be able to insert a copy on every channel and not even notice it much. And unlike Equalizer is has absolutely ZERO latency, so that's one less thing to worry about.
I'm very excited about it and I'm sure you will too--once you hear it, of course. It definitely shouldn't be long.
And oops, I almost forget: happy new year!
Posted by: dj!