Analog Stage Review

[Benedict]

Hi All

This may amuse some of you. It is part four of an arc on Saturation plugins. I like Analog Stage a lot. It has now made it to a lot of mixes.

https://youtu.be/NGViKJWJlRk

[HoRNet]

Wow thank you very much for the very in depth review

Just a couple of clarifications here

1. while transistor and op amp dels are indeed "static" ant your sine wave test shows the whole picture, the "tube" model is dynamic, since tubes have an internal capacity that affects their frequency and transient response. It basically acts a sort of "memory" so if a high signal hist a tube the "internal capacitor" gets charged and creates a sort of memory that changes the operative point of the tube adding or reducing the amount of distortion.
In practice this translates into more distortion transients that doesn't reduces as soon as the transient finish but is kept at higher level for a little while.

2. the Age parameter simulates the aging of the internal components, in practice you get a lower headroom (saturation happens at lower levels) and a reduced frequency response due to capacitors drying out. We intentionally left out increased hiss, dust cracklings when turning knobs and hum because we thought it would have been too much)

If there are more questions you would like me to answer just ask

Saverio