Acustica Audio intros Black: the FREE gain-staging tools for authentic analog sound Product: Black Developer: Acustica Audio Price (MSRP): FREE - Download and authorize it via Aquarius! Plug-in Format(s): VST, AU, AAX System Requirements (Windows): Windows 10 System Requirements (OSX): OSX 10.14 Black web-page: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store...ua/tools/black Black User's manual: https://app.box.com/shared/static/uf...g8hmmh6yxc.pdf About Black Black is an Acqua plug-in suite made of two FREE players that focus heavily on Gain Staging: a standard version ('BLACK') and a "Pro-Oriented" version ('BLACK GURU'). Both plug-ins are available in the following formats: VST, VST3, AU, and AAX. When designing Black we had in mind to offer you two simple and easy to use players that would bring to life our preamp emulations and at the same time handle filtering and saturation intuitively. Black will give you the best tools for gain staging in the digital domain by quickly finding the best gain levels possible while keeping the source in the optimal range and distortion levels under control. What you get Black includes: 1- Black: FREE player - Standard version, it includes a default emulation bank ('Navy Geranium'). 2- Black ‘Guru’: FREE player - Pro-oriented version, this plug-in is an advanced ‘extra’ version, featuring additional fine-tuning controls, it also includes the default emulation bank ('Navy Geranium'). What's the idea behind Black? The basic concept behind BLACK is to recreate in the digital domain the warm and tone-rich feeling that an analog setup can deliver. Samples and recordings are usually distributed with 0dbFs, while user set processors require an operational level of around -18dbFs. So as per any analog mixer, before mixing a take, it is crucial to set a correct amount of pre-amplification to your signal since the rest of the chain depends on it. So, with that said, you should consider Black as the first plug-in suite to add to the channels of your DAW: just set the Input signal level using both the meters and the overflow led. By increasing the input gain, you will also affect harmonic distortion, just like on a real mixer. Then you could use the filters to eliminate any rumble and useless content in the top end and then fiddle with the different pre-amplifications until you find the one you like most that add the best coloring to your source. By taking advantage of the numerous emulations, you will recreate that non-linearity characteristic of those deep and open mixes, just like on a real analog piece of equipment. Thanks to the contribution of the sound engineer and producer Alex Trecarichi (www.alextrecarichi.it), an invaluable collaborator of Acustica Audio in producing this project, the Acustica team is very proud to release this high-performance yet easy-to-use plug-in suite. IMPORTANT: The Black plug-in suite, due to the way it is designed and is used (to achieve good gain staging), does not follow the usual Acustica convention of using an input level of -18 dBfs = 0 dBu. To understand what your optimum level is, please use the overflow led and meter indicators. More details are in the User's manual. Additional commercial banks/libraries are available in several 'Volumes' on our store. To stay constantly updated about new Volumes, we recommend you to keep an eye on our website. Black - Volume A Black - Volume A is an additional Volume for Black. Black Volume A includes 10 different emulations of pre-amplifications of vintage and modern consoles for a total value of over 100K. IMPORTANT: It is mandatory that Black is installed on your computer for the additional volumes to be used. Product: Black Volume A Price (MSRP): Introductory price |
