With Mint, Acustica Audio once again releases emulations of various sections of an extremely rare studio hardware. This time it's about the GL2112 console, an ultra-rare model of which only two copies exist worldwide. Four plug-ins take care of the preamp, EQ, compressor and limiter.





specification and price
Acustica Audio Mint runs on macOS 10.14 or later and Windows 10 or later as VST2, VST3, AU and AAX.

Until March 14, 2022 you pay 89 euros instead of the regular 139 euros.

https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/products/mint

 

Forget about the sound. The GUI is really good.

 

have you tried it yet ?

 

damn, they really stepped up their compression game for this one.

 

I did. Both the GUI and the sound are very, very good. Win, win.

 

Custom console from Studer/Revox swiss division, GL2112 with Ampex 100 tape pres.
Interesting.

 

Yep, it sounds good.

 

Tape preamp sounds very phasey, harsh and thin, could be a bug.
Blond preamps sound much better, juicier and fatter.
EQ, good but nothing special. Honey EQ for example sounds better and boosts nicer.

 

I don't really get what it does, and it steps in to big amounts. But the SOA knob did a lot for the Acustica compressors,

 

Looks are good, and it's amazing to have sampled this very rare swiss unit.
Tape "pre" sounds horrible - bug or by design ?
Usually it is best to wait a couple months to iron out the bugs and have an even better discount.
Sounds very aggressive indeed. I prefer AA Brown 1000%.
I am back to freezing / comiting my tracks like hardware so AA is back in my daw!

 

How does the compressor even work? I can only achieve gain reduction on drums :/

 

I'm laughing because in the NL we refer to SOA as STD...knob.. lol.

 

I freaking love to hate Acustica. The CPU hit is no fun (and they really need to improve on that). They do make IMO nice plugins, soundwise and visually.