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Beautiful pics

 

Does the world needs another Pultec eq?

 

Last edited: May 10, 2016

They're the EQ's.

 

Fixed... anyway my question is still valid

 

There is Pultec and there is Acustica Pultec.I tried the waves version and it didnt convince me.

 

Considering not not of the Pultec EQ's plugins to date have actually nailed the sound of a real Pultec...... yeah we need Purple.

Demo it for yourself, to answer your question for yourself.

 

It would be interesting to know what Pultec eq (hardware) creator thinks about software emulations.

 

Purple is not a software emulation and the creator would be shocked at how a plugin sounds.

 

If any Plugin Dev getting endorsed by Hardware manufacture should be these guys at Acustica

 

I am becoming a monk now when it comes to Acustica plugins. Some might disagree with me but before that I would suggest trying Cooltec EQP-1 with a rational mind/approach and compare all other emulations like Waves, UAD, Softube, IK Multimedia, Nomad factory, Overtone DSP, URS Fulltec, SK note, Ignite Amp (free) and anything else that I forgot to mention. I have tried at least five of them and sixth is Cooltec and not for one or two days but spent a good period of time devotedly, without bias or undermining others. I still don't say other are crap or outstanding, however if they serve you well and you like the result then go ahead. But if we are talking about the 'faithful' recreation of Pultec, Acustica stands out and outclasses many big names. Point is the technology Acustica audio uses is practically much closer to reproduce the EXACT emulation of Pultec hardware as compared to others. We all know that convolution reverbs are the footprints of real spaces and to understand easily this is the same technology Acustica uses to create it's plugins. I mean just imagine what else could be the true replica of something other than a footprint/duplicate/copy of it! So at least theoretically no other plugin possibly recreates Pultec unless they resort to using the similar technology or if there is any other breakthrough in technological advancement in future.

On topic, these pics are jaw dropping and I am sure that this would be in my one of future purchases list.

 

While I agree with you about AA and the Nebula tech being great sounding, It is actually a different technology than convolution. AA uses an advanced IR technology called Vectorial Volterra Kernels Technology, it's based around using ultrasound technology to sample up to 9th order harmonics dynamically.

 

I also love the fact that Acustica went in 'homebrew' path. They have a guy (or a few guys) build an hardware unit, just for the purpose of profiling / capturing it and making a plugin version of it.

And Actustica had Pulteq stuff before btw, I just don't know if it was of the same unit. But the older Acustica stuff had a reputation for high latency and high cpu usage, having something on their latest iteration is always welcome.

The Acustica Nebula version 1.3.5 that was around on the sister site is based around Core4/Core5 if I remember correctly. They're now at Core8.

And in all fairness, it kinda pisses me off that Positive Grid is now advertising _again_ with "introducing matching digital, tube, and passive EQ with tube component modeling - a first ever on a computer plug-in" while that is blatant lie. And I still believe Positive Grid is doing nothing more than EQ-matching / IR-convolution matching.

 

Normal IR convolution (reverb capturing, guitar-cab capturing, EQ-matching) is capturing a single EQ-response-over-time (so at 0ms the EQ response is A, at 1ms the response is B, at 2ms the response is C, etc..). That's how the reverbs are captured.

Acustica is 1) capturing EQ-over-time for different levels of input signal. So the EQ-over-time changes all the time depending on the amplitude of the input signal. An EQ that adds less bass to a softer signal and more to a louder signal can't be captured in regular IR convolution, but Acustica can.

They also capture the harmonic distortion in the lower subtle parts of the image to capture (some of) the analog magic and imperfections outboard gear can have.
Their compressor-capturing also sends and tests attack and release times at different levels to capture compressor-dynamics behaviour.

While I'm the first to say that this is never a truly recreation and there will always be 'misses' and things that don't work well in their tech, it's clearly a step up from whatever there was before, and they have been at it for quite some years now.

 

Thanks for correction. I explained it in the simplest way possible and as what I read in the plugins manual.

 

Last edited: May 10, 2016