TWO RARE VINTAGE TUBE COMPRESSORS - AVAILABLE IN PLUGIN FORMAT FOR THE FIRST TIME!


Kazrog releases True Dynamics
True Dynamics emulates the Presto 41A and ITA LA1B - two of the most sought after and hard-to-find vintage tube compressors in all of pro audio. These are the rare secret weapons of some of the world's top mixing and recording engineers, and now they can be in your DAW for a tiny fraction of the cost of owning the real units (assuming you can even find those!).

Developed by Kazrog and Powers Music.

The emulation technology behind True Dynamics incorporates the same industry leading analog-modeled DSP behind Kazrog's renowned True Iron plugin.

Pre-Order Info
We're working hard to get True Dynamics ready as soon as possible, and we've set a Q1 2020 release target. If you pre-order today, you'll save 25% off the launch day price. As soon as True Dynamics is ready for download, you will be notified!

Features
*Highly accurate emulations of the Presto 41A and ITA LA1B compressors, inside a single plugin.
*Toggle between compressor models with a single click.
*Unified Gain Reduction, Recovery Time, Mix percent, and Out Level controls.
*VU meter.
*Standard Kazrog preset manager with A/B compare.
*Compensated internal bypass.
*Advanced drawer with power user options such as oversampling control, sidechain LPF/HPF, and Zero Latency mode for realtime tracking.

https://kazrog.com/collections/frontpage/products/true-dynamics

 

Last edited: Mar 18, 2020

I don't use True Iron so much these days. Sounds too subtle for me.
I hope this one is good tho.

 

Maybe because all analog hardware has minimum/subtle distortion and saturation? It is useful on master for some subtle vintage vibe and colour. I don't think transformers are for dirty distortion. But True Iron can also distort way more bvious and heavier if you push it further)

 

I find True Iron useful for drum samples or pure digital synths such as wavetable or FM synths to make them "warmer",although it may be nice on all kinds of sounds.

This new compressor might be good news coming from a great developper.
Do you know what technology use these compressors emulated,@mild pump milk ?
The Presto 41A is an optical one,like a LA-2A?I haven't found much information about them on internet.
https://www.mickeydemag.com/presto-41a-limiter.html

 

Tubes in compressors mostly can be found in both - opto (LA-2A) and vari-mu.
Optos are usually Levelling Amplifiers.
Vari-Mu aka Delta-Mu, means something close to term "Gain Reduction" (from Greek). Quote from another site: it involves the Greek letters we use for “change” and “gain” (i.e., gain reduction).

 

Who needs an ITA LA1B if he has an Teletronix LA2A?

 

Last edited: Jan 11, 2020

Ok,I always wondered what "vari-mu" meant.It was simple anyway...

 

People will always love newly released plugin.

 

Btw, i don't know what emulation techniques do they use. Maybe SPICE? Will ask on gearslutz later..

 

speaking of gearslutz, i was just reminiscing about the trainwreck tube amp i built, with much help from those guys, and i went ahead and gave it a tuneup and bias check, theres something to be said about the relationship hardware has with air. precisely a transformer and air. or also a drum and air
you just cant reproduce what happens to the sound when air gets bent well
that being said, we can come pretty darn close in the box to mimicking how air being bent well sounds in the box

 

The MANLEY VARIABLE MU® LIMITER COMPRESSOR has been our best selling product for many years. It is one of the very few compressors that has become a real standard in Mastering studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade and probably the next.
"Mu" is tube-speak for gain, and Variable Mu® is our registered trademark for this limiter compressor. It works by using the "remote cut-off" or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression. The precious vintage Fairchild 670 also uses this technique and is one of few all-tube compressor to do so, that we know of. Even the side-chain has glowing rectifier bottles. How’s it work? The unique 5670 dual triode is at the center of the peak-reducing and compression action constantly being re-biased by the vacuum tube rectified side-chain control voltages which cause this tube to smoothly change its gain. Just like that.

 

check out audio examples from hw....these one is really really really good

 

Counterquestion, how many people own a Teletronix LA-2A?

 

How many do even know about the ITA LA1B?

 

Released!

 

It's not released 'til it's released on sister site.

 

I mean, officially released, not pirated/crkd

 

Kazrog has a lot of hype to live up to with this plugin. I LOVED True Iron but the interface is unnecessarily huge, maybe they updated in the past few weeks but even on a 4k display it takes up so much space for 2 knobs and a couple of switches, the sound itself is top tier though. I'll demo this but I don't think I need another vintage compressor emulation.

 

He was just joking...

 

The snake oil guy likes it, what else matters?