AnalogStage MK2

Tips and tricks

Console emulator plug-in.

This softens electric guitars nicely.

• OpAmp: think SSL or API. Very forward.
• Transistor: has an exciting sparkle for vocals. Very forward.

It has some cool left and right tolerance differences. I made a preset in Volcano 3 that does something similar.

Kind of a weird spike at F0 up near Nyquist when the input is cranked. However, this happens way above 3 VU of additional gain. This plugin seems best suited for subtle analog coloring, not huge distortions. I’d probably use Saturn 2 or SDRR2 for the latter.

Has built-in OS, so that makes it easy for just setting and forgetting.

CPU

0.3%

Oversampling IR

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Sine sweep test at -18, spectrograph readings at -130dB, OS on

OpAmp

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Transistor

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Tube

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Hammerstein test

OpAmp

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Transistor

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Tube

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