Hello Composers! Mike here, with a quick guide on the Best Equalizer VST Plugins. The Equalizer effect is essential in both mixing and mastering of music production. To reduce annoying frequencies in a sound, to boost the focus, to filter out unnecessary lows and highs etc. This is a legendary piece of equipment. As only thirteen Trident A-Range consoles were ever made, it remains a holy grail for sound engineers and producers around the world. The A-Range channel features four bands of equalization and high and low pass filters, with an extremely colorful and musical sound. The original distortion is included, and is easily controlled with a saturation knob. The Trident A-Range, in my opinion, responds better to high dynamic range sources, so inserting a pre-EQ compressor that can hit the signal pretty hard first works best. You can also use the EQ to somewhat compress a frequency range, as pushing bands hard and introducing a lot of saturation, which widens and compresses the sound dramatically. Hello Composers! Mike here, with a quick guide on the Best Equalizer VST Plugins. The Equalizer effect is essential in both mixing and mastering of music production. To reduce annoying frequencies in a sound, to boost the focus, to filter out unnecessary lows and highs etc.
The Trident A-Range Classic Console EQ Powered Plug-In is available as part of the new UAD software version 5.5.0 release. In addition to the Trident A-Range EQ plug-in, version 5.5.0 includes a Mellowmuse ATA RTAS plug-in update to v1.4, performance enhancements for Mac users and ‘Higher Performance’ graphics mode functionality for the UAD. Trident A-Range. Trident Studios was a famous recording facility in Britain during the 1970s and 80s. During their short but influential run, they produced exactly 13 Trident A-Range consoles. These desks had a sound that defined the “Golden Age of rock records”. These desks had a truly unique sound, preferred by artists like David Bowie. Trident Studios was originally started in 1967 by Norman and Barry Sheffield as the in house studio for the Centredisc label. Following the first major hit to come out of the studio, “My Name is Jack” by Manfred Mann, Trident Studios would establish itself as one of the few top studios in the world.
PAM Award 2010
MusicRadar 4.5 Stars
The Trident A-Range is a legendary piece of equipment. As only thirteen A-Range consoles were ever made, it remains a holy grail for sound engineers and producers around the world that hope to create works of art equal to those that were originally recorded on the A-Range — David Bowie´s Ziggy Stardust, Queen, Elton John, the list goes on..
The A-Range plug-in from Softube is the first and only native and TDM plug-in that has been fully endorsed by original designer Malcolm Toft and Trident Audio.
The plug-in is a model of a channel on one of the original 13 Trident A-Range consoles. We chose to model channel 15 from the console at Sweet Silence Studio ´B´ in Denmark, producer Flemming Rasmussen´s favorite channel for recording lead vocals. Flemming also used it for the solo and rhythm guitars on Metallica´s 'Ride The Lightning' and 'Master of Puppets', and Ritchie Blackmore´s guitar on the Rainbow albums 'Difficult to Cure' and 'Bent out of Shape'.
The A-Range channel features four bands of equalization and high and low pass filters. The sound of the bands is often referred to as 'colorful' and 'musical'. When running a hot enough signal through the original unit and boosting the bands, it is possible to get it to distort, the result is a hairy and effective saturation that is just right in some situations, and just wrong in others!
'When I tried the Softube Trident A-Range equaliser plug-in for the first time, a big smile came upon my face. It was just like getting my desk back again. It sounds exactly as I´m used to hearing the eq.'
Flemming Rasmussen
Producer, Mixer, Engineer (Metallica, Morbid Angel, Blind Guardian etc.) Free bass engine vst.
'I am pleased to say that this is an incredibly accurate software recreation of my original A-Range design.'
Professor Malcolm Toft
Original designer of the A-Range console at Trident Audio Developments
PAM Award 2010
MusicRadar 4.5 Stars
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