The Final & Ultimate LA2A Plugin - Poll!

[whassup]

Page 3 of the ultimate AlAyTwoAy thread an no mention yet of the legendary driver of the Beatles tour bus from the 1972 Tour who wrote the song "Come together for a lamb BBQ" in the Irish mountains, right behind Kilkenny's forrest?
That tin whistle solo there... was compressed with a La2a. A real one. Kids don't try this at home with plugins. You might like the outcome but it won't be the real thing. Because this was back then and this is now on your laptop.
Yeah, that case of that legendary compressor was abused to hold the coals for that lamb BBQ and later the innards of the compressor were planted back into the case. That MADE the ultimate sound of that tin whistle solo. Nothing COULD evar sound like that because Yellow Boostar Industries only had an inferior La2A from the Sunset studios from the year 1964 at hand to make a top notch emulation. But yeah. You got the drift.
No plugin is even close.
And I don't give a flying crabfish about it.
What comes closest to the original BBQ version: Omni Channel. Short attack, medium release, 2:1 and the rest with threshold. Deep baby, deep.
Move on to the next legend to be de-mythed about La2A's.

[El°HYM]

Page 3 of the ultimate AlAyTwoAy thread an no mention yet of the legendary driver of the Beatles tour bus from the 1972 Tour who wrote the song "Come together for a lamb BBQ" in the Irish mountains, right behind Kilkenny's forrest?
That tin whistle solo there... was compressed with a La2a. A real one. Kids don't try this at home with plugins. You might like the outcome but it won't be the real thing. Because this was back then and this is now on your laptop.
Yeah, that case of that legendary compressor was abused to hold the coals for that lamb BBQ and later the innards of the compressor were planted back into the case. That MADE the ultimate sound of that tin whistle solo. Nothing COULD evar sound like that because Yellow Boostar Industries only had an inferior La2A from the Sunset studios from the year 1964 at hand to make a top notch emulation. But yeah. You got the drift.
No plugin is even close.
And I don't give a flying crabfish about it.
What comes closest to the original BBQ version: Omni Channel. Short attack, medium release, 2:1 and the rest with threshold. Deep baby, deep.
Move on to the next legend to be de-mythed about La2A's.

This!

Didn’t even include the new Softube? Definitely can’t be “the Final and Ultimate” then.

Didnt include so far, as me wasnt sure if its really different to the NI one?
There are some #slots left, so I will be adding the 'missing' ones, once confirmed.

*edit*

Ok, maybe not so good, as it resets the #poll then. So added the new Softube and still think the List is pretty Ultimate, so lets just go from there.

Also This!

[martinjuenke]

The result is interesting so far:
McDSP and Slate are dead.
Softube not really relevant.
UAD still king of the road.
Even dusty Waves CLA still going healthy.

[Scotty]

If we find ourselves listening to the fizzy distortion of a slightly overdriven T4 circuit I humbly suggest that perhaps the music is less than captivating. Maybe we’ve lost the plot?

[vurt]

Vurt is even better than El hymn!

thanks
who are you?

[ampetrosillo]

I'm using either LALA or HA2A. At the end of the day, they do the trick (smoother the former, more character the latter).

[martinjuenke]

Vurt is even better than El hymn!

thanks
who are you?

He's one of many Leos popping up all the time...

[jens]

Page 3 of the ultimate AlAyTwoAy thread an no mention yet of the legendary driver of the Beatles tour bus from the 1972 Tour who wrote the song "Come together for a lamb BBQ" in the Irish mountains, right behind Kilkenny's forrest?
That tin whistle solo there... was compressed with a La2a. A real one. Kids don't try this at home with plugins. You might like the outcome but it won't be the real thing. Because this was back then and this is now on your laptop.
Yeah, that case of that legendary compressor was abused to hold the coals for that lamb BBQ and later the innards of the compressor were planted back into the case. That MADE the ultimate sound of that tin whistle solo. Nothing COULD evar sound like that because Yellow Boostar Industries only had an inferior La2A from the Sunset studios from the year 1964 at hand to make a top notch emulation. But yeah. You got the drift.
No plugin is even close.
And I don't give a flying crabfish about it.
What comes closest to the original BBQ version: Omni Channel. Short attack, medium release, 2:1 and the rest with threshold. Deep baby, deep.
Move on to the next legend to be de-mythed about La2A's.

This!

lol...

[Uncle E]

Page 3 of the ultimate AlAyTwoAy thread an no mention yet of the legendary driver of the Beatles tour bus from the 1972 Tour who wrote the song "Come together for a lamb BBQ" in the Irish mountains, right behind Kilkenny's forrest?
That tin whistle solo there... was compressed with a La2a. A real one. Kids don't try this at home with plugins. You might like the outcome but it won't be the real thing. Because this was back then and this is now on your laptop.
Yeah, that case of that legendary compressor was abused to hold the coals for that lamb BBQ and later the innards of the compressor were planted back into the case. That MADE the ultimate sound of that tin whistle solo. Nothing COULD evar sound like that because Yellow Boostar Industries only had an inferior La2A from the Sunset studios from the year 1964 at hand to make a top notch emulation. But yeah. You got the drift.
No plugin is even close.

EMI rebuilt it. I sang through it in 1979 and it made me sound exactly like Yoko Ono-meets-Chuck Berry.

[beely]

Neither is it modelled on a LA2a (nor on a LA3a), nor does it look like it was, regardless of the marketing blurb, which you have to put in perspective / read properly in order to fully comprehend what they mean with their mentioning of the LA2a ("inspired by" does in no way equal "copy of" or even just "modelled on"). It is in fact modelled on an Acme Opticom XLA-3, which is very much its own thing.

Thanks - Yes, I've not used it, and the PA blurb does say it was modelled on the Acme hardware, which I'm not familiar with - I don't know if that hardware was a hardware recreation of the LA-2A, or something different (my previous impression was that it was something different. I sort of deferred to PA's marketing blurb on that, which was probably misleading (what's new! )

And I agree that's what "inspired by" tends to mean (which is what a lot of these plugins, eg RenComp, are doing), which is what I've been saying above. The blurb for the Opticom does not say or imply it's "inspired by", they make claims you get that LA-2A sound - or at at least in one case, "LA-2A style" sound, which is less literal.

So yep, on reflection I agree that on that basis I wouldn't class the Opticom as a LA2A emulation either... thanks for the clarification!

[vurt]

Vurt is even better than El hymn!

thanks
who are you?

He's one of many Leos popping up all the time...

i just find it odd when people i dont know talk like they know me. makes me think they possibly had a different name before is all

[El°HYM]

Neither is it modelled on a LA2a (nor on a LA3a), nor does it look like it was, regardless of the marketing blurb, which you have to put in perspective / read properly in order to fully comprehend what they mean with their mentioning of the LA2a ("inspired by" does in no way equal "copy of" or even just "modelled on"). It is in fact modelled on an Acme Opticom XLA-3, which is very much its own thing.

Thanks - Yes, I've not used it, and the PA blurb does say it was modelled on the Acme hardware, which I'm not familiar with - I don't know if that hardware was a hardware recreation of the LA-2A, or something different (my previous impression was that it was something different. I sort of deferred to PA's marketing blurb on that, which was probably misleading (what's new! )

And I agree that's what "inspired by" tends to mean (which is what a lot of these plugins, eg RenComp, are doing), which is what I've been saying above. The blurb for the Opticom does not say or imply it's "inspired by", they make claims you get that LA-2A sound - or at at least in one case, "LA-2A style" sound, which is less literal.

So yep, on reflection I agree that on that basis I wouldn't class the Opticom as a LA2A emulation either... thanks for the clarification!

The Acme Opticom XLA-3 Hardware is actually also 'inspired' by the LA2A. https://acmeaudio.net/#xla3

[Halonmusic]

what, no Vos ThrillseekerLA??

[jamcat]

Yeah, that case of that legendary compressor was abused to hold the coals for that lamb BBQ and later the innards of the compressor were planted back into the case. That MADE the ultimate sound of that tin whistle solo.

In a recent interview, Sir Reginald Puffcock, 2nd backup engineer to the assistant whistle engineer on the session, threw this entire story into doubt when he revealed the chassis was used as a smoker. As you can see a vintage LA-2A is not deep enough to hold a full complement of coals, much less hold an entire rack of lamb.



Speculation now is a Urei Cooper Time Cube was used, or possibly a garbage can.


***UPDATE!***

The original Urei/UA Cooper BBQ Time Cube may have been located! If authenticated, this would be a significant historical discovery, on par with those master tapes Jimi Hendrix left in a taxi cab once.



In the original setup, it is now believed the coals were placed in the Time Cube's rack unit, and the smoke was pumped into the box holding the lamb through the garden hose. In this image, burn marks are clearly visible on the hose, along with a smoke ring around the inside of the open cube.

[whassup]

Speculation now is a Urei Cooper Time Cube was used, or possibly a garbage can.

Dang! All those years and now it's being revealed that they haven't been on the Moon but on Mars? Shocking! Indeed.

A garbage can? At least a special one? Hundreds of new questions. To be continued...

And Chuck Berry, yeah...