Fuse Audio Labs - VPRE-31 VINTAGE GERMANIUM PREAMP

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  1. shankar

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    Wlak yo2borni soosoo anaaaaaa
     
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    2+0.5=101%
    Good!
     
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    By the way, fuse audio labs (Dratwa from Black Rooster Audio, also an circuit modeller for most Plugin Alliance stuff) are one of the best!
     
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    germanium..? heh funny how they give those kind of names to software plugins
     
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    Downloaded, installed, tried, uninstalled.

    Drop across mix bus no added coloration. Did distort (bad transformer type crunch) & rob signal of sonic quality. Repeated for individual drums, bass & vocals. Same result.
     
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    ATME it adds nothing I'd like to have on drums, bass or a track. Rather the opposite, I missed some transients and peaks and in one case even the openess of the source.
    Like @mrichi said, dl'ed, installed, tried, uninstalled.
     
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    Just like tubes, solid state, fet, optocell, tape, trafo... This one models germanium trafo, such kind of distortions...
     
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    Good for guitar crunchie munchie. Germanium is an acquired taste, but too much can terribly ruin your teeth.
     
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    This is the kind of plugin that I use very subtly.
    Never on my mixbus.
    Most of the time on instruments or vocal tracks.
    This one brings a boost on the bass that I like a lot, and for the guitars too.

    The benefit is often very little audible but it is above all in the context that the magic works.
    Some plugins can add presence and help sit an instrument or a vocal in the mix.
    Others can act on the stereo image, the transients or the frequency.
    You just need to know them well to use them where and when you need to.

    I do electronic music and work ITB.
    And it is with this type of plugins that I manage to give a certain character to my productions.
    I can also understand that some do not agree.
     
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    I was playing with my new toy.
    Interesting on a voice.
    Mainly followed by a good compressor.
    The perfect combo to sit the vocals in the mix with a very nice presence... and especially for $19 :wink:
     
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    Disagree with the negative posts here. I tried it and liked it.

    It's Germanium style... Would you put your entire mix through a Fuzz Face pedal? No.
     
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    Germanium was often used in Phono preamps, so yes, for a whole song. :winker:
     
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    It is based on RCA BA-31, a germanium transformer preamp for mic.
     
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    Vintage Germanium crunch... Cool, im gonna have a listen.

    What do you guys think of the Fuse Audio's Stompboxes? are they special?
     
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    It's mostly discribed as a mic pre, but not only.
    However, not my cup of tea soundwise.
     
  19. DoubleTake

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    There is a reason why the germanium 4-transistor was rare.
    I bet I can guess why ...
    Sometimes the mojo is there, sometimes it ain't ..
    This modeling is getting out of hand :rofl:
     
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    WTF is wrong with Germanium modeling?

    [​IMG]

    Chandler has a mic pre that uses germanium transistors. Like NoA, not my cuppa.

    https://chandlerlimited.com/germanium-pre-amp-di/
    [​IMG]kids names 2019

     
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    Well, it is true there was a reason for the schematic, and I did build one and had it in the control cavity of my 1983 Roadstar for some time...
    It was very low power and neat, but I did find other pedals and changed my controls up ...
    I am just being a whiner and nay-sayer..
     
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