Virtual Tube Collection

Name: Virtual Tube Collection
Price: 99 USD
Author: Slate Digital

by Slate Digital · Saturation · Tube saturation

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Virtual Tube Collection by Slate Digital

Adds tube amplifier stage coloration modeled on several vintage tube circuits.

Best for: Mix Bus, Vocals, Guitars. Genres: all genres.

Keywords: tube, colored, hardware emulation, vintage, metering, smooth, vocals, warm, aggressive, bus processing, full mix, mix bus, mixing, single-band, tight.

What it does

Virtual Tube Collection adds tube colouration modelled on vintage tube circuits, with three models.

Models: London (warm, bold lows, smooth highs), New York (aggressive mids, tight lows) and Hollywood (colourful, with air and a big bottom).
Controls: Preamp/Console mode, a Normal/Boost colour switch, saturation, a 6 dB/oct high-pass filter, output gain and mix, and an output VU meter.
Note: Slate lists it as requiring the Virtual Mix Rack platform.

Source: Slate Digital product page

When to use it

Use it for tube warmth on vocals, drums and buses: London for smoothness, New York for edge. For a more flexible saturator, see Decapitator or Saturation Knob in the rated list.

Suits pop, rock, hip-hop and R&B.

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