TuPRE
by Analog Obsession
by Analog Obsession
4.2 / 5
(5 votes)
TuPRE is a tube line amp with custom passive program equalizer.
Fully custom design. Simple but really effective for any source.
Fully custom design. Simple but really effective for any source.
- 45 dB line amp (virtually compensated gain).
- Two band - fixed frequency program equalizer. Fully passive design. Virtually compensated. No active gain stage after eq section to keep it clean.
- 100 Hz low shelf & 10 kHz high shelf (broad) with 10dB boost and cut.
- Clean output knob.
Downloads
Win 64 VST
(8.5 Mb)
Mac OSX VST
(23.7 Mb)
Mac OSX AU
(23.7 Mb)
(5 / 5)
Great for adding a big warm sound to tracks
(5 / 5)
For drums is very good
(2 / 5)
Adds odd harmonics ~nothing special
(4 / 5)
Not hugely impressed. Seems a bit erratic. Sometimes it's dull, sometimes harsh. Doesn't generally add much "Vibe" either way. What I will say is it's good for adding saturation to dynamic sources. If you stick a solid state preamp emulator on a vocal you might find that the loud parts of the vocal are super distorted and the softer parts are super clean. This sounds like it's doing a decent job of softly saturating the whole dynamic range in a characteristically tubey manner. So try it on vocals but it might be a bit uninspiring on electronic sources which don't have much dynamic range anyway.
CPU usage is surprisingly modest.
Surprised to read this old sniffy review of mine. This is now my go-to saturation plugin.
(5 / 5)
Fantastic VST!!!