if you purchased a focusrite audio interface then you would have got the softube time and
tone bundle included for free when you registered your audio interface over on the focusrite website
and signed up for the softube newsletter so what do you get in this bundle well let's find out i'm
zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the tech so you can
unleash your creative beast by providing easy to follow audio tech tips tutorials and reviews now
in this video i'm going to look at the plugins that are included with the softube time and tone
bundle and then i'm going to do some audio tests for each of the plugins and those plugins include
the tsar-1r reverb the tube delay the drawmer s73 intelligent master processor and the softtube
saturation knob the value of these plugins if you were to purchase them separately is
297. now you combine these with the other plugins that are included in the focusrite bundle
and you have all of the effects that you need to start creating some awesome tracks now let's
get into the plugins included in this bundle and the first plugin is the tsar-1r reverb this is an
extremely easy to use modern algorithmic reverb plugin that can give you a wide range of sounds
with the time slider closer to the bottom you're going to get the room sounds and then as you start
to move it up you'll notice you'll get into hull and then large haul sounds plus up here you have
a nice led display to show you the reverb time then you also have a pre-delay control over here
and put it down it's less pre-delay put it up you get more pre-delay and that allows you to
control the gap between the source and the reverb tail now you can see you have
a color control here and there's three options you have bright neutral and dark and this can help you
to create some depth with your tracks and it also gives you some more control over the reverb sound
and of course you have a mix knob so you can dial in as much of the reverb and the dry signal as you
want or you can have it all the way at 100 and use it on a bus and then you have your output
level to control the level going out now let's check out how it sounds on some different tracks
so first up we're going to test it out on vocals friday night and you're mad at me again
all right now let's try it out on a bit of a guitar track
the next plugin in the softtube time and tone bundle is the tube delay now this is
an interesting delay plugin it has a tube preamp simulation it can give you some nice
clean typical delay and echo sounds but it also gives you controls to make that delay
gritty and really give your tracks some unique character it also includes a two knob passive eq
and this can help you to shape your sound a little more and of course you have your
dry wet mix knob right here your feedback knob and your delay time knob you can see here's the drive
knobs for the delay time and feedback and the drive knob for the direct dry sound so you can add
some tube drive to the direct sound as well which is kind of neat here the delay timing can go from
one millisecond all the way up to a thousand milliseconds and you also have a tempo sync switch
here so it can sync to the tempo of the daw again this is another very easy to use plugin and it's
capable of delivering some very big sounds now let's test it out and here it is on lead guitar
and now here it is on a vocal track
all right before we get into the next plugin in the softube time and tone bundle i just want to
ask if you're enjoying this video so far getting some value out of it can you please hit that
thumbs up button it really helps my channel out and i appreciate it so much now the next plugin
on the list is the drawmer s73 intelligent master processor this is based on the analog
hardware drawmer 1973 compressor it's designed to give your mixes and busses a great analog
sound the drawmer s73 gives you easy to control settings so you don't have to be a mastering
engineer to dial it in and you get a multi-band stereo compressor in it which is a phet style
compressor and it features a simple knob to control how much of that compression you want
and then you have this section over here which controls the style of the compressor
you just click on any of these to change the style to whatever it is you want and then there's also
this air switch right here and this can bring some brightness and clarity to your tracks
if you need it plus you have your mix control down here so you can use it at a hundred percent
and put it on your master bus or any bus that you want to use it on so let's give it a listen now
and the final plugin included in the time and tone bundle is a free plugin that's available
to everyone this is the softube saturation knob again this is another extremely easy to
use plug-in you have the saturation knob in the middle here and then you have a switch to select
the saturation type if you have it on keep high it's going to keep the highs relatively intact
but saturate more of the lower end then if you put it on keep low it's going to keep the lower end
somewhat intact but saturate more of the highs and then if you have it on neutral it's going
to saturate the whole track so let's give it a try right now and here it is on drums
and now let's test it out on some bass guitar
so now here it is on an acoustic lead guitar part
and now here it is on a vocal track
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon