TC Electronic Tube-Tech CL 1B plug-in finally shipping
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The wait is over. The Pro Tools HD version of Tube-Tech CL 1B is now shipping. The plug-in is a emulation of the hardware all-tube optical compressor unit with the same name and has been developed as a collaboration between Lydkraft, Softube and TC Electronic.
The CL 1B allows the use of up to 2 instances in mono/stereo at 44.1 / 48 kHz or 1 instance in mono/stereo at 88.2 / 96 kHz per DSP chip on Pro Tools|HD Accel hardware. On Pro Tools|HD Core hardware 1 instance is supported per DSP at 44.1 / 48 kHz.
And some more specs according to the press release
The CL 1B plug-in offers up to 30 dB of gain and a variable step-less ratio ranging from 2:1 to 10:1. It features innovative attack/release controls, with three different settings, enabling the CL 1B to be used as an insert or bus compressor.
The Sidechain/Link button in the stereo instance of the CL 1B plug-in recreates the dynamic master/slave relationship between the left and right channels, a feature usually found when having two mono units interconnected via the Sidechain Bus found on the hardware version of CL 1B. As a unique feature, users can set whether the control of the compression is to be fixed at either left or right .
One capability that is unique to the CL 1B plug-in is the advanced metering, which can display the left channel, the right channel or both channels.
Tube-Tech CL 1B retails at EUR 740 excl. VAT.
Hey, you have a misprint. You wrote EUR 740.
That can’t be right.
- c
By Chad ~ April 24, 2008 kl 2:33 am
from the TC website:
TDM PLUG-INS
Item number Name and description Price Add
947019901 Tube-Tech CL 1B TDM (For Pro Tools HD and HD Accel – Download only) 799,00 €
so a street price of 740 seems OK….
By Andreas Rauscher ~ April 24, 2008 kl 2:48 am
Hm… I think I’ll need to double check. I got the price quote from a friend and it seems odd that he didn’t give me the TC price.
By stiff ~ April 24, 2008 kl 3:11 am
BTW thanks for the quote Andreas!
By stiff ~ April 24, 2008 kl 3:12 am
you´re welcome, Stiff!
By Andreas Rauscher ~ April 24, 2008 kl 3:28 am
Would ANYBODY pay that price? I’d be surprised if there was even one customer.
That price is the definition of insanity.
- c
By Chad ~ April 24, 2008 kl 3:29 am
well Chad,
you know the price of the Hardware unit, I guess…
nd speaking of price, just thing of Waves…. SSL and Neve Stuff..!!
I´m not saying I find it a good thing…..
By Andreas Rauscher ~ April 24, 2008 kl 6:21 am
Ok….so why would I buy a plug in that runs 3 to 6 instances (depending on sample rate) on a protools HD3 set? Quality? I’m sorry but that’s WAY to heavy a DSP load to me. A protools HD1 has got 9 DSP chips to run 1 compressor at 96Khz…. Is this the latest april fool ever? LOL
By J~P ~ April 24, 2008 kl 7:11 am
LOL…sorry: toy already said PER CHIP….. I’m probably to tired to read carefully….
By J~P ~ April 24, 2008 kl 7:13 am
JP, I actually read the same thing first
By stiff ~ April 24, 2008 kl 7:46 am
A plug-in that costs as much as hardware.
Hmmm… Buy a plug-in or buy an Empirical Labs Distressor?… Which way to go…
Tough decision…
- c
By Chad ~ April 24, 2008 kl 11:55 am
Well, to be fair, the hardware version of this costs at least three times as much (and I want it!). Of course with this they don’t have any hardware costs.
By stiff ~ April 24, 2008 kl 12:50 pm
I am a big tubetech fan, but I discovered it too late. That is; I have all sorts of focusrite stuff for years that I love, but since working in studios more and more I often grab tubetech stuff. I will be recording a band in a couple of weeks in a studio that has several MP1A’s, a couple of CL2A’s and the multiband compressor (smc something). But also the Universal Audio 2-610. I love that one as well. Most of the tracks will pass through focusrites ISA430 (or 428, 828) though. My favorite allround preamp still….
By J~P ~ April 24, 2008 kl 4:05 pm
PS: the only difference I can find with the hardware version is the sidechain knob. The hardware version actually states bus 1 or 2 for the SC input. That sounds like a protools term to me…. But the protools version says Left or Right…. Funny.
By J~P ~ April 24, 2008 kl 4:10 pm
The hardware version of the Fairchild limiter costs $30k.
Maybe UAD should have considered that when they priced their brilliant plug-in emulation it at an affordable $150?
This is madness, people. Paying $1,000 for a compressor plug-in is nothing but foolishness.
I run a mastering studio for a living and we had the Tubetech multiband limiter. It was okay. We eventually sold it to (wisely) use our $6k elsewhere.
My advice: forego this product until the price becomes more reasonable. We have to discourage this kind of price gouging or else it will continue. Don’t encourage them.
- c
By Chad ~ April 24, 2008 kl 4:47 pm
In other words, just say no.
- c
By Chad ~ April 24, 2008 kl 4:49 pm
JP: How the hell do you make those little waves on a Mac?
Chad: “The hardware version of the Fairchild limiter costs $30k.
Maybe UAD should have considered that when they priced their brilliant plug-in emulation it at an affordable $150?”
Simply brilliant.
By stiff ~ April 25, 2008 kl 2:06 am
True, it is exorbitant, but it’s the price all of us PT users have to pay to offset the money they will lose from pirates cracking their PC Powercore version…what else is new. If all the software manufacturers offered their products at reasonable prices (Massey, PSP), piracy would not be an issue. In any case, TC stuff has always been way overpriced, going back to their lame guitar pedals in the 80’s.
By lexx00 ~ April 25, 2008 kl 10:48 am
At the top of this thread, I thought the price was a MISPRINT.
ha ha ha ha! LOL
A MISPRINT.
I wonder how many other people blinked and double-checked their eyes, or cleaned their glasses, like I did.
- c
By Chad ~ April 25, 2008 kl 11:18 am
JP, going a little OT (it’s my blog, I can do that
). I understand that the ISA modules are based on the Focusrite console. Have you tried that? And if so, do you think they are similar?
By stiff ~ April 26, 2008 kl 2:42 am
“True, it is exorbitant, but it’s the price all of us PT users have to pay to offset the money they will lose from pirates cracking their PC Powercore version…”
There’s are two kinds of schools here, this is one of them. The other is the exact opposite: when people stop paying – lower the prices. I actually don’t buy the whole thing that there wouldn’t be piracy AT ALL if the prices were low which a lot of magazines propagated for in the 80’s (Amiga nerds should know
), there will always be free riders if there’s the possibility for it. Still, it’s possible that the companies would actually make more money if they lowered the prices. It’s a very tough decision to make.
By stiff ~ April 26, 2008 kl 2:46 am
740 Euro way over priced considering I paid 750 a few years ago for TC Tools which is no longer supported on Intel Mac
This is way overpriced. Good luck selling it.
By sidechain ~ April 26, 2008 kl 3:05 pm
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