Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT

[DFoisie]

Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT
http://www.waves.com/plugins/reel-adt#reel-adt-tutorial


Regular $200
On Sale $99

Waves/Abbey Road Reel ADT is the first plugin to successfully emulate Abbey Road Studios’ pioneering process of Artificial Double Tracking. The effect that would become an integral part of Abbey Road’s signature sound was initially created at the famed studios in the 1960s to meet the needs of some very special clients: The Beatles.

Reel ADT puts the magic of that era in your hands within seconds. Using its intuitive controls, you can advance or push back the doubled signal to achieve genuine, lush-sounding delay and pitch variations. You can also drive each of the signals separately to add beautiful tape saturations.

With its authentic modeled valve tape machine sound and faithful emulation of wow and flutter, this extraordinary plugin can enhance any track with the impression of two separate takes, giving you results as close as possible to real double tracking. Other classic Abbey Road tape effects such as flanging and phasing can also be achieved with ease.

All the character, depth and panoramic sound of this inimitable classic effect can now be created digitally, simply and for real: Reel ADT.
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Developed in association with Abbey Road Studios Genuine tape-sounding ADT plugin For the first time ever, a full exact recall automation of the ADT effect Different tape sounds for source and ADT signals Exclusive 2-voice component Separate drive control for each path Manual and automatic control MIDI-assignable manual control for the most authentic user experience possible.

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[Burillo]

meh...

[Compyfox]

Waves/Abbey Road Reel ADT is the first plugin to successfully emulate Abbey Road Studios’ pioneering process of Artificial Double Tracking.

Not true in plugin form:
http://www.vacuumsound.de/plugins.html

And it's just another overpriced, oversized plugin branded with the name "Abbey Road" to fish for further income. Any delay with a modulation function (LFO) for delaying the signal within a 30ms frame (chorus!!!) can pull that off.

This is the whole secret to it. Instead of resinging the part, the Beatles copied the take over to another tape machine, and the head offset created the delayed part, which then sounded like a "chorus".

I'd rather invest my money for something else. Especially since there are so many tape plugins on the market, that can pull that off. One being TAL Dub2(!), and that is freeware.

[Aloysius]

It will sell like hot cakes.

[Compyfox]

Only because of two buzzwords/phrases:
- Beatles
- Abbey Road

[ZINO]

And of course it's not included in Mercury.

After their own ilok plugins fiasco not a single more $ to the Abbey Road jokers.....

[djshire]

Sounds fake

[djanthonyw]

Yes, after watching the video I'm not crazy about the sound.

[MickGael]

Downloaded the demo. Sounds great. When not doing real double-tracking, I've been using Vacuumsound ADT (a great freebie). To my ears, the Waves ADT is far superior.

[TIMT]

that´s pretty meerh.slowing shit down on tape does sound pretty good though but this literally just sounds like your average joe pitch and time resampling algorithm in (insert your DAW here)







TIMT

[Agreed]

Waves/Abbey Road Reel ADT is the first plugin to successfully emulate Abbey Road Studios’ pioneering process of Artificial Double Tracking.

Not true in plugin form:
http://www.vacuumsound.de/plugins.html

My first thought as well. Also a fantastic plate EQ emulation, but beside the point here... And the VacuumSound guy is up front about what it actually is doing, too. I've used that in mixing for some time and it's a great shorthand for, e.g., avoiding >double tracking on a guitar, or doing some reasonable sounding scratch track stuff for vox without actually doubling it. I even had one track where it ended up being just the sound that worked for what I was trying to do.

This is a question because I seem to recall this being the case but I can't remember for sure - weren't the Abbey Road EQs found to be basically just fancy GUIs with no actual modeling of nonlinearities or anything that could reasonably justify their claims to be just like the original hardware, when run through a thorough plugin analysis?

[MickGael]

This is an interesting case, as only a handful of people alive have ever heard the effect first hand. So ultimately, it is subjective.

I can say that the more I dig in the more i like it. It is capable of delicate and subtle sounds I find quite euphonic, as well as the classic ADT effect. The phase and flange effects are especially good. Different enough from (let's say) Satin to warrant - for me - picking it up.

[woodsdenis]

This is an interesting case, as only a handful of people alive have ever heard the effect first hand. So ultimately, it is subjective.

I can say that the more I dig in the more i like it. It is capable of delicate and subtle sounds I find quite euphonic, as well as the classic ADT effect. The phase and flange effects are especially good. Different enough from (let's say) Satin to warrant - for me - picking it up.

CPU hit ?

[Compyfox]

This is a question because I seem to recall this being the case but I can't remember for sure - weren't the Abbey Road EQs found to be basically just fancy GUIs with no actual modeling of nonlinearities or anything that could reasonably justify their claims to be just like the original hardware, when run through a thorough plugin analysis?

I can unfortunately confirm that.
The "passive EQ" series were indeed, passive, non powered, no harmonic content.

The Abbey Road REDD EQ (if the preamps are tuned off) are passive, non powered, no harmonic content. The same applies for the RS-56.

I don't remember the TG Console plugins, but even here I think there was no real harmonic fingerprint either. The only real benefit of these EQ's.


Try to dig out my REDD review here in the FX section. I posted some plots.

that´s pretty meerh.slowing shit down on tape does sound pretty good though but this literally just sounds like your average joe pitch and time resampling algorithm in (insert your DAW here)

If slowing down/speeding up is desired, other plugins can do that just as well. Like I said... ADT is possible with pretty much EVERY delay that has a range between 1ms and 30ms, and the delay time can be modulated with an LFO.

If you want a specific tape sound/wobble... that can be applied in the chain as well. Actually... the ADT technique was pulled off on a Tape Delay similar to the Roland Space Echo one. And for this... there are plenty of alternatives, cheap ones even, on the market.


IMO, such a high price tag from the start, with just a name brand on it, is yet again not adjusted. Unless you have the money to burn, or you wait until it's even further discounted through other sources. And if you like the brand "Abbey Road".


Thinking about it:
Waves now has the following "Abbey Road" plugins (not to mention the rights for everything else that might be revived, or sold in the future)...

- the REDD console
- the RS56 add-on EQ
- the JS37 tape machine
- Reel ADT
- the Kings Microphones (which were kind of useless IMO)

Now I think the next plugins will be either the "passive EQ" add-ons again, or a compressor (hopefully the RS-124 rev 1 to 3). Then a bundle makes sense. But I don't think that will happen that soon. Further milking the franchise does make more sense.

And it wouldn't further piss off Abbey Road plugin users that HAVE the RS-124, the passive modules and the TG-Transfer console, but were ultimately cut off after they announced the discontinuation and the move to Waves.


Enjoy your Waves WUP plan, people!

[Tricky-Loops]

Do the drive controls at least add some nice coloring?

The rest indeed looks pretty simple, can be done manually, too...