Fuse Audio Labs

Well, maybe it is really good, but I can't reach a needed sound with it... And, like all Audio Labs plugins, it is CPU heavy, so it's not among my favorites.

This Fuse Audio Labs VCL-4 is so very often my first grab, go to, Opto Leveler, and Always ends up throughout my mixes.

Realized in plugin form by Reimund Dratwa. .. The first thing I notice is the Delicious Saturation and Simplicity of Design, and Ease of Use. ... .. :-).

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Ray's Collaboration with his Good Friends at NeOld also produced the NeOld U2A and U17A. ... .. Very Nice. .. :-).

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... His Collaborations with Black Rooster Audio, and many others, also are also very nice. ... .. :-)
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... And Ray's Fuse Audio Labs VCL-4 plays very well with others. ... .. :-)
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-BVT.

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Sir Ocelot is a High End, High Quality, Master Bus Finisher. ... .. :-).

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... Seriously. ... .. Fuse Audio Labs is a Well Spring of Audio Enlightenment. ... .. :-)
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Fuse Audio Labs make High End, High Quality, Sound Shapers and Enhancers. ... .. :-)
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... The more I build a mix with Fuse Audio Labs components. .. the Mo' Better my mixes sound. ..

... The VCL-25A Vintage Vari-Mu Leveler is a must have flavour for my mixes. ..

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I think this is a very fine plugin. I wish I could say it's magic or life-changing but it's not. It is just a good-sounding, versatile emulation of the V72 preamp/compressor. The GUI is variable, the quality can be "low" or "high," the gain is variable with associated "drive" (distortion). It is possible to group all instances of the plugin if desired. It has a well-written manual. I enjoy it and thank Fuse Audio Labs for making it available for free. Although I couldn't find a version number, I believe this to be the latest, complete version.

Cannot believe this plugin does not have a review yet.

I am a hobbyist musician / producer.

If sound of an instrument could use a nudge to bring more clarity, this is my go-to equalizer plugin. VQA-154 brings nice saturation. I use it on flutes or violin ensemble in mix to make them stand out among other instruments.

I already have been positively surprised by the quality of the VREV-666, which is freeware and is already a really beautiful and great sounding (studio) spring reverb (simulation).

The VREV-305 seems to be some sort of "bigger brother", a true stereo spring reverb with the luxury of two separate 6 spring units, which therefore are capable of sounding more dense and intense, at the same time also more complex and elegant than eg. a typical spring reverb in a vintage (guitar) amp with two or three springs.

Therefore, if you look for these typical, extremely twangy, dirty surf guitar spring reverb sounds, there may be - a few - better alternatives available (a few less in this quality), but if you look for excellently adjustable, more elegant sounding reverb sounds with nevertheless this unique spring reverb character, which is capable of closing the gap between a more simple, cheaper built spring reverb and a plate reverb, this plugin might be the right choice.

Adjustable Decay and Pre-Delay time enable a lot of very different reverbs, which can be additionally altered with the four band equalizations.

Sounds great with guitar or bass, maybe even better with vocals, synthesizers, drums and a lot of other audio sources, but also can equally well be used for mastering, I think.

All useful and necessary controls are accessible, as much as a linking or independent adjustment of the two channels. I personally like to unlink them and adjust them differently, which adds some additional vividness and organic character to the final signal, which anyway already sounds top notch, at least to me.

Fuse Audio Labs offers a fully functional 14-days trial version, so you can test and check the plugin without any annoying noise or other limitations for some while.

The Intro Price makes it a bargain for the quality, although the regular price still is quite fair, I think.

I already have some - more or less - good sounding spring reverb plugins, also a lot of spring reverb IR's for convolution reverbs, but if I had to decide for a single one, I think, this one would be my choice, as more decent settings sound equally good as very intense ones.

As being a zero latency plugin it is doing a great job as mastering fx in my gig performer live setup on stage.

Rock solid and good sounding.

One of the rare zero latency plugins for use in live situations.

Thanx to Fuse Audio Labs.