add some vintage mojo to your tracks with this free channel strip plug and this is the Acustica
Audio Eminence and with this you're getting what they're calling an ultra rare 60s British
3-band EQ also you get what they're calling a franken compressor and this fuses a popular
optical compressor and fet compressor into one now this is available on mac or windows as a VST
VST3 and AAX formats but right now let's jump in and check this out
so what i have here is a start of the song that i've been working on
i had no plugins on here whatsoever it was just the recording so i thought i would add this
channel strip to the guitars bass guitar and drums to see what it sounds like so i'm just going to
start it out with all of them disabled and we'll give this a listen so you can hear the raw audio
so that's with it disabled now let's enable the plugins
now i haven't played around with this too much i just sort of did some quick dialing in of these
settings on each of these tracks and i'm sure i could do a lot better job if i were to focus on
it a little more but i just wanted to get this video out to show you what you can grab for
free so let's just look at this track by track now and we'll go through the settings of this
so let's start with our drum buss here and we'll start with this on
so now let's look at the sections of this plug-in we'll start with the preamp here
you can see there are three different preamps that we can switch between
and it has to go on one of them you can't kind of blend them together you have to go on
one of them or you can have the preamp section off so the 920 is from this eq preamp the 591 is from
the optical compressor preamp and the 612 would be from the fet compressor preamp so you can just
listen to your audio and switch between them to find which one's best for that particular track
also you have this over sampling button here that can over sample 16 times which increases your cpu
usage but it does sound a lot nicer and then down here you have this mid side knob so if you want it
to be more narrow you would turn it all the way to the left if you want your audio to be wider
you would go all the way to the right or somewhere in between if you want and then of course you have
your panning left and right down here you have input trim here you have an input trim control
and now you can see we have our three band eq here so you have your 10 kilohertz and you can
either attenuate it by turning it to the left or increase this frequency by turning it to the right
and down here you have your presence control so you can switch between whatever frequency you want
in here and again turn it to the left to attenuate turn it to the right to increase then down here at
the bottom you have your 60 hertz and you can attenuate or increase plus you have this button
down here so you can turn the eq off totally if you just want to use this as a compressor
so now let's look at our compressor here you have your typical settings your attack release
ratio then you have this schmod knob which i think adjusts the optical compressor
and there's also a filter for it as well and then your threshold and then this soa which i
think is for the fet compressor plus you also have a dry wet mix knob and some makeup gain over here
and of course you can turn off your dynamics altogether if you just want to use this as an
eq then in the middle you have your gain reduction meter and over here you have
an output control with an output meter there now let's just check this out on our bass guitar here
again add some character in there and it takes away
the frequencies that i want so this will sound good in the mix here it is in the mix
that's how i like my bass guitars to sound i like to have them a little more
mid-rangey and not so much in the bassier area to muddy up the mix and now let's just look at
our guitar track here quickly now this is on my guitar bus so i actually have two guitars
feeding into there and they're panned hard left hard right let's give this a listen now
really cleans up the guitars it adds that nice sort of vintage flavor to it
what i really like is this mid-side knob here so i can spread that stereo image a little bit more
and widen the guitar sound i like to do that on my guitars and i think it adds a nice vintage
character now one thing i will say about this is it seems to use a lot of system resources so if
you're wanting to use this on every track in your project you might want to go through one by one
then freeze or render down each track individually and add that separately just so you're not using a
ton of your system resources if you just want to add a little bit of vintage flavor to your tracks
this is a great plug-in to do that and it's free so why not grab it now check out some of
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thank you so much for watching for Audio Tech TV I'm Zane keep creating and we'll talk soon