Thought fellas you would be interested in this:

GTS-39 Limiting Tube Compressor

GTS-39 has been developed by measuring and testing a very old limiting tube compressor with a great vintage sound.

Gotta looooooooove these Vintage plugins.

Cheers!

Very cool, but I wanna hear it.

Working on first _side-by-side_ sound examples. Fine-tuning and waiting for "go on" from the "lab"

Looks nice! Format?

Starts Win VST, then Mac and Win 64

Simply looking forward!!

Gracias Quito!!!

GTS-39 has been developed by measuring and testing a very old limiting tube compressor


OK Quinto: Time to come clean. Which very old limiting tube compressor?

G@ts s@39

still no mac versions in general?

Excellent.

i'm really curious as to what kind of method was used in the modelling, if at all possible to go a bit into the process. really looking forward to the AU version of this.

Interesting...

I see Quinto is getting a bit of a mention over on Music Radar
VST/AU plug-in instrument/effect round-up: Week 3 | Page 3 | MusicRadar.com
Now new info as yet though

Graham

It has been developed starting from a physical model of the tube electronics (original schematics).
Then several series of test signals are run through the hardware, and the output is recorded. The test signals are created to show main behaviours of the device with common settings or to extreme conditions.
The original model is fine tuned to behave like the hw with test signals.
Next step: the sound. The ear is lots more sensible than any signal comparation.
Significative sound samples (instruments, mixes) are run through the model while it is fine tuned, with lots of listening tests, until the model sounds a bit more like hardware than the hardware. Then a step back

i quite like the notion that it'll "sound more like the hardware than the hardware itself". really looking forward to this. cheers.

"Then a step back"heh

Graham

hopefully he just means a coffee break.

Nice heh

Graham

seriously though, i hope this is an harmonic overdose. i'm really tired of "vintage" plugins that sound like little or nothing at all, other than the typical gain bump. very high hopes for this one.

Maybe they have two different teams - one working on new plugins and one working on the ports. But yeah, it's a little frustrating to me that they announced the mac versions of the other plugins before this and they still aren't released. Ten bucks is ten bucks, though

Oh, Mac porting is going on and no delay because of new products at all!

GTS-39 was in the pipeline and is coming out in its first version, while my friends are struggling with MacOS

These are the first portings, anyway, this is why they go on slowly.

heh


No, I meant that after one million listening tests and fine tuning moves you learn some characteristics from the original one and are tempted to enhance these. So, like reverb and hi freqs gain, when you think you have done, go a small step back

Oh, yes, this actually CHANGES what you feed in. Radically

will look further into this

I'm happy to present the first public short audio demo for this toy

It is a bassdrum loop through the limiter at extreme settings (20dB compression, fast release).

This is the dry sample (a bassdrum mic from a multimic drum recording):

BassDrum_Dry

This file contains the same file processed through both the "ancient" one and the "contemporary" one:

BassDrum_Extreme_Limiting

Settings are not exactly the same, so one is a little bit drier, but the example is interesting, I'm sure.

Hi Quinto, i cant get the dry sample to play.

Graham

Ops, it was a 32bit file. Replaced it, now you can get the 16bit file from the same link

Yeah, that done it, cheers. thumbsup

Graham

Hey, this sounds great. There is a nice tone into it !

Thank you K-Slash, I'm seriously impressed myself, ah ah!

Which one is HW?