Sorry if my question got lost, but what did you say how they compare to the originals from your point of view??

Hi Ronny,

To be honest, I never used the REAL deal, but I think that's not the point .

I do know when a plugin adds something good to my tracks or not, or if it's THAT good or just average.

Sure it's my own view and some people might think others things about these plugins, but to my "not so bad ears", they improved the tracks and so the mixes, greatly.

Oh, just wanted to know how to rate your expertise - hence the question.

Cheers,
Ronny

No problem .

The interesting thing really, is that all 3 Pultec emulations have their use and are for "shining".

Same for the Fairchild emus.

Check your Ilok again regarding the E-tone. It should still let you use the plug even though it's been discontinued- it says it never expires in the right hand side.

The emulation I'm talking about isn't the Retrology Pulse-Tec, but the one included in the Analog Bundle (not Blue Tubes.

Let me know if you're able to get the E-tone working again.

Well, when updating the iLok, the licence got changed to "Discontinued_Etone".

So the plugins do not recognize the licence anymore.

It will continue to work only if you choosed the "hard drive" authorization. But if you try to reinstall them on a different computer, you won't be able to active them anymore too, even with the hard drive auth.

NF fairchild emulation does not come even close to IKM 670. IKMs emu sounds like hardware, very organic and 3D. NF662 is flat and "static", does not "live" with the signal as good

Revived and old thread, eh? Wait, I won't complain of course. We'll have some Singles coming but I know there's at least one release (both iOS and desktop on this one) beforehand.

Peter: I hope there will be ANYthing from IK without an "I" before it. I hate this hype and read in another forum also that IK should concentrate on some studio FX and not only on this "oh wow, now I can change the temperature of my refrigerator with my Ipad"-stuff. Looking interested forward to your singles.
BTW: I LOVE the 670 from IK too and whatever other compressor I use (and I got a lot) I come back to this one, because I do not only READ about the magic it adds even with all parameters flat, but I can HEAR it. And its one of the nicest compressors I know too, very unobtrusive!

While I too get annoyed that IK releases so much iOS stuff, they're probably making a killing off of it. And if they are, it's likely that those sales help subsidize other releases.

Agree 100% on their 670. The fact that compressor is modeled so well is what makes me feel a bit a disappointed in their 1176 and LA-2A models where they left out the transformer and tube input/output stages (respectively). The compression on those latter two feels right, but it still feels incomplete. Especially when you compare the Black76 against the new UAD 1176 Collection.

In addition, once they added the 10db of internal gain, they never adjusted the volume on the output section to compensate. So I'm uber annoyed every time I reach for either the Black76 or White2A as the volume jumps 10db. It was a stupid oversight that should have been caught in QA testing, and if anything, should have been fixed immediately in a point release.

That said, overall, I love the 670 for gentle compression, the Pultec is great on guitars, and the Black76 and White2A still get a ton of use even though there's room for improvement.

Amen to that ! But a while ago they told, after lot of users requests, that they'll release later "enhanced version" with modeled input and output stage for more fidelity and color. I'm (we're) still waiting.


Ditto. Sometimes I forgot about it, and while mixing with headphones, it's even more annoying.

There is Poolteq, a Pultec program for Nebula by AlexB
http://www.alessandroboschi.eu/html/en/poolteq.htm

Are you talking about this one http://www.nomadfactory.com/products/asp/eqp4.html ?
Anyway, I'm not aware of any Nomad plug-in that's been discontinued.