Come by our booth for demos or a chat. Who knows, maybe we'll
even have something new for you all to
see...
Frankfurt Musikmesse, March 24-27 Hall 5.1, Booth C79
February 12, 2010
Even More Great Reviews!
The emulations of these amps are extremely accurate and without the
influence of presets, effects or even something as simple as a tuner,
the amp tones remain faithful to the original amps that we know and love.
While we have been focusing on the Trident release (we're just four guys,
can't do everything at the same time), reviewers around the globe
have been busy reviewing our other products.
First up are two German
magazines, Bassquarterly
and Professional Audio
Musik & Equipment (Click to the link to read the review!). Bassquarterly raves about how
intuitive Bass Amp Room is and that it has
everything you need for your bass sounds without having to
possess a degree in applied computer science. We
agree.
Professional Audio Musik & Equipment has one of the most thorough
reviews we've ever seen. Seven (!) pages of comparing
the Tube-Tech CL 1B hardware with our software. Amazing!
They call the plug-in "an authentic emulation of the Lydkraft
hardware", "Spitzenklasse, sehr gut.".
Finally, we just got a brilliant three page review of Amp Room Bundle
in Guitarist Australia where reviewer Kris Petersen sums it up by
giving it 5/5 on all accounts (except features) and saying
"What
a fantastic set of plug-ins!"
February 12, 2010
New Sound Examples: Using Trident A-Range in a Mix
Wiz Produxions made a video demo showing how they use the A-Range in an R&B mix.
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
equal works of art 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 (VST/AU/RTAS)
and TDM plug-in that has been fully endorsed by original designer Malcolm Toft and Trident
Audio.
A fully functional 20-day demo can be downloaded from http://www.softube.com.
With the Marshall JMD:1 amplifier, a new era in digital guitar
amplification has begun. Marshall's analog excellence is combined with
Softube's patented simulation technology to make rock 'n' roll's
most comprehensive and sophisticated amplifier, while still staying true to the Marshall tone and
heritage.
For the JMD:1, Softube has contributed hardware for the
pre-amp and signal processing parts, as well as the
software. This marks a new beginning for us, as it is
the first product where Softube has contributed to the
hardware design.
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January 4, 2010
Interview: Glenn Rosenstein - "I love it, I absolutely love it"
Born and raised in New York City, Glenn Rosenstein began his music
career at the legendary Power Station recording studio, assisting
alongside some of the best and brightest producers, engineers and
artists in the business. Honing his craft at New York's historic Sigma
Sound, Glenn became a highly sought-after mixer and remix engineer,
creating work for such artists as U2, Madonna, Talking Heads, The
Ramones, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and many others. We mananged to get a
moment of Glenn's time and asked him about his work and what he thinks
about our FET Compressor.
We have recently had tons of raving reviews sent to us! We try to
update the reviews section on our web site, but sometimes it's just
too much work... Here are a couple of excerpts from the last
month:
Paul White, (the man, the myth, the legend), from Sound
On Sound
speaks about Spring Reverb and
Tube Delay:
—Spring Reverb is by far the most authentic-sounding
spring emulation I've heard so far.
—Even when you set the feedback control right on the
edge of building up into feedback, the background mush created by
the recirculating delays sounds exactly right.
—It's
a big winner for me and is a major player in all
my mixes from now on!
...and then we have Niklas Silén from Pro Rec who did a
raving review of the FET Compressor:
—I can not imagine myself
working without it, even though we have the hardware equivalent in
the studio.
—It is a very versatile and
creative tool that cannot be mimicked nor matched by any other
plug-in as far as I know.
—Awesome sound quality.
Finally, there's been lots of German reviews lately. Audiowerk, our
German distributor, says they're fantastic. But we don't speak German
(kein Deutsch, por favor) so we just have to trust them on that. But
check out the raving Passive-Active Pack review in the latest issue
of Keys Magazine (2009/12)!
November 13, 2009
Interview: Robbie Bronnimann on Recording Howard Jones
Robbie Bronnimann has worked as a producer/remix & artists for
about 15 years with artists such as Howard Jones, Sugababes, Andy
Hunter & remixed Chicane, Ferry Corsten, Howard Jones, Love Inc, and
Kate Bush. As an artist he has recorded 3 albums under the names dba &
numerous releases under the name tektonik.
When asked to produce a classic singer/songwriter album for electronic music pioneer Howard Jones, Robbie knew where to go to get authentic sounding plug-ins - Softube!
Interview: Digging the CL 1B Plug-in with Tony Shepperd
With over 20 years in the business, Tony Shepperd is a veteran
engineer, producer and mixer. Artists he has worked with include
Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins and Faith Hill. Working
with this kind of talent, it's no surprise that Tony has access to the
best of the best of hardware and software tools. He is currently
digging the CL 1B... Plug-in!
Tube-Tech CL 1B Native Released with 25% Introductory Offer
After many many user requests and quite a bit of hard work, we are
extremely proud to announce the release of the Tube-Tech CL 1B plug-in
for native formats. The CL 1B is a true studio classic, heard on
tons and tons of records for the past 20 years. Like its hardware
counterpart, the Tube-Tech CL 1B native plug-in sounds soft, smooth,
groovy and can compress an insane amount of dB's without sounding
bad.
In October, Tube-Tech CL 1B Native is available at a special 25% off introductory offer through the Softube web store and authorized dealers. Don't miss this opportunity to get extra-affordable natural musical compression!
A fully functional 10 day demo can be downloaded from
http://www.softube.com.
We often get questions about our modeling and plug-in creation
process, so here is a short video that shows some of the work that was involved in the
making of the CL 1B plug-in.
This video is a short demonstration of the features of the CL 1B plug-in.
September 18, 2009
New Video: Controlling Acoustic Feedback with a Pedal
We are showing how you can use a foot pedal (like an expression pedal)
to control the Feedback parameter of the Acoustic Feedback
plug-in. For more Softube related YouTube videos click
here, or visit
our YouTube channel
September 7, 2009
Raving Reviews on Passive-Active Pack and FET Compressor
Sound and Recording have just published a raving review on the Passive-Active Pack and
the FET Compressor:
"I may go out on a limb here, but I claim that the Swedish define the
standard of what is possible in today's native DAWs regarding
'Analog-Processing' with these processors. Although I feel a bit
sheepish by pushing Softube this hard: but you only have yourself
to blame if you don't grab it."
It's really amazing how authentic this stuff is, whether
it's a clean sound or the whole pallet of rock sounds or anything else"
The emulations of these amps are extremely accurate and without the
influence of presets, effects or even something as simple as a tuner,
the amp tones remain faithful to the original amps that we know and love.
