Mint
by Acustica Audio · Channel Strip · Solid-state console suite
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Mint is a four-plugin suite sampled from a rare GL2112 solid-state console built by a Swiss engineer in the late 1970s.
It includes EQ, compressor, preamp and channel strip plugins; the shop page did not show a price.
Best for: Vocals, Drums, Bass, Guitars, Mix Bus. Genres: all genres.
Keywords: solid-state, colored, hardware emulation, 70s, musical, tape, bass, bus processing, drums, full mix, mix bus, mixing, vocals.
What it does
Mint models the GL2112, a solid-state console built to order by a Swiss engineer in the late 1970s (gearnews identifies it as the Studer-Revox GL2112). The developer describes "a powerful, colorful sound" that can be pushed into musical distortion.
- Source console: only two were built; one was commissioned by TOTA studios in Paris and later installed at Oxygen Recording Studios in Italy. The desk had 32 channels, 8 effects returns and 8 extra line inputs.
- Mint EQ: 4 bands with a bass cut and a double mid-range control running 80 Hz–16 kHz in cascade, plus 8 solid-state line preamps taken from GL2112 channels.
- Mint Comp: a solid-state compressor/limiter with three modes: Comp 1 (the original), Comp 2 (an Acustica "Frankenstein" variant) and Limiter, with preamp emulation built in.
- Mint Pre: 16 line preamps, 16 mic preamps and 2 stereo buses, plus two extra preamps derived from an Ampex 24-track tape machine.
- Mint Channel Strip: the EQ, the compressor/limiter with all three modes and the full preamp section in one plugin.
Source: Acustica Audio product page
When to use it
Mint is a pick for an unusual, colourful console tone rather than a familiar one. Compared with bx_console SSL 4000 E and SSL 4K G, it has a simpler EQ and compressor and no well-known layout, but it offers a rarer European desk sound that is built to be driven. Unlike API Vision, which models a famous American console, its character comes from an obscure custom desk with two tape-machine preamps on top. Scheps Omni Channel is far more flexible as an all-in-one strip; Mint is about tone more than tools.
- Best for: adding colour to tracks and buses, and pushing preamps into musical distortion.
- Genres: any; suits rock and indie.
- Look elsewhere if: you want a clean, familiar console layout (SSL 4K G or Native Channel Strip 2) or many processing modules in one strip (Scheps Omni Channel).
Where to buy
- Acustica Audio: see store
Tutorials and reviews
- Acustica Audio Mint On Drums and Percussion - In Use And No Talk
- Acustica Audio - MINT Demo⎮On Drum Kit And Mix Bus Glue
- Acustica Audio Mint -Revisión en Español-
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