URS releases URS Saturation
The URS Saturation plug-in digitally recreates four different and distinct pre amplifiers each featuring: a different type of input stage saturation, even and odd ordered harmonics and soft clipping. The initial four Mic Pre Amplifiers models include:
Class A Tube Mic Pre Amplifier – Vintage Motorcity
Class A Tube Mic Pre Amplifier – German
Class A Discrete Pre Amplifier – British
Class A Discrete JFet Pre Amplifier – Modern
About each model:
Class A Tube Mic Pre Amplifier – MotorCity
This algorithm digitally recreates the characteristics of a American tube mic pre amplifier that was popular in recording studios during the 1960’s Motown era. Setting the drive control higher will add desired harmonics and tube soft clipping for a much more pronounced effect.
Class A Tube Mic Pre Amplifier – German
This algorithm digitally recreates a German tube mic pre amplifier that was popular in European recording studios during early 1960’s Beatles era. This type of tube pre amplifier is coveted for it’s unique distortion, presence and authority in the treble ranges.
Class A Discrete Mic Pre Amplifier – British
This algorithm digitally recreates the sought after classic British console all discrete mic pre saturation. This vintage amplifier was also used for the console’s summing buss amplifiers. The added harmonics create the edge that is desired in both Rock and R&B music.
Class A Discrete JFet Mic Pre Amplifier – Modern
This algorithm digitally recreates a modern JFet mic pre amplifier that comes the closest of any discrete device to tube saturation. Although similar to a tube it has its own unique harmonic structure and sound.
Other info
Mix blend Control
Allows you to blend the right amount of Saturation with your source material. No need to use an additional parallel track or Aux send to get blend effects. At the 100 % Wet setting the Mix Blend Control is disabled.
It features High Res 64 bit Floating point “Double Precision” processing.
The URS Saturation plug-in currently supports Audio Units and VST for both Mac OSX. RTAS is currently supported with a VST to RTAS Wrapper only (not included). A TDM version is planned and will be released at a later time for an additional charge.
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By NAMM URS Saturation | Audio Tech News ~ January 17, 2008 kl 8:12 am
Really like what happens running Reaktor through this and then Virsyn’s VTape, may be my next purchase
Just for context, other than DAD ‘Valve’, who else has a good saturator these days? (Native/AU)
By Loopy C ~ January 21, 2008 kl 10:09 pm
“Saturator” as in input stage and tube? I still think those fields are kind of open. I pretty much only use McDSP AC1 for it. I haven’t tried URS Saturation, but it should be interesting. I’ll try to get a review of it.
By stiff ~ January 22, 2008 kl 3:07 am
My AC1 is sorta ‘lost’ to me as I hardly boot my PT 5.1.1 TDM anymore and haven’t felt like using/setting up LE (over using Logic) so would love to hear your take on AC1 and ‘Saturator’. I mean as in what you hear as different as I think they are both worthy products.
FYI, pretty much decided going to purchase it at this point, it and VTape were made to be together
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By Loopy C ~ January 23, 2008 kl 1:40 am
What do you like VTAPE on Loopy?
By stiff ~ January 23, 2008 kl 9:07 am
My main use has been on custom ‘Reaktor’ ensembles to get that ‘vintage’ vibe (think ‘Boards Of Canada), there is a definite unique subtle distortion that tricks my ear into believing I am hearing analog format. The combination of VTape’s saturation, flutter, and bias has also allowed me to ’sim’ all sorts of ‘machines’ and artifacts, such as Circuit Bent toys, German industrial underground cassettes, factory environments, and ‘vintage’ mixtapes
This ability WITHIN a laptop is pretty mindblowing, and URS saturator is really tipping it over the edge in making realistic virtual devices that have a ‘history’ contained within their audio DNA.
My previous experience with McDSP was usually much more of a ’standard’ application to the usual music production tasks of basic character/compression. I find VTape to create more of an audio ‘illusion’ of a particular past, especially in recreating DIY genres that started their life in less than professional environments (the DIY ‘Industrial’, ‘Noise’, and Hip Hop scenes for instance). Having grown up myself with reel-to-reel and cassettes (semi-pro versions) their is a heavy ‘nostalgia’ factor that VTape seems to exclusively trigger for this current laptop-exclusive user. Other than that, just about any digital source (soft synths/samplers) get a very obvious ‘nudge” into a more musical sonarity.
Software products that i own and am indirectly comparing to include:
DAD Tube/Tape
Cranesong Phoenix
McDSP AC-1/2
Airwindows Iron Oxide/Chrome Oxide
Various Bomb Factory (Fairchild/UA emulations)
Speakerphone (which is another main conspirator to the above-mentioned possible ‘realities’ that really ‘nail’ particular ‘vibes’ as opposed to just the sound).
By Loopy C ~ January 23, 2008 kl 1:10 pm
This seems like a very interesting tool. One thing that worries me about pre amplification plug ins is that you have to get that mic to line level some how and you are going to be influenced by that mic pre’s sound more than anything else. Still for added color to a clean preamp this could be a nice flavor to play with
By Microphone Preamps ~ September 16, 2008 kl 12:03 am