Acustica intros Teal: Your go-to palette for rich tube saturation.

[Acustica Community]

Grab your palette of authentic tube saturations, with 8 distinct vacuum-tube saturation emulations – each crafted from historic tube hardware, giving your music a unique tonal color and warmth.

Teal is Acustica's interpretation of tube saturation, encapsulated in an all-in-one specialized tool available in VST, VST3, AAX, and AU formats. Every emulation brings unique tonal characteristics, providing a diverse palette of sounds suited for any professional audio workflow.

With TEAL you can add subtle harmonic richness or dial in full-on distortion, delivering the perfect analog vibe to your tracks.

Whether you’re working on vocals, drums, guitars, bass, or your mix bus, TEAL is the ideal tool to add depth and character to your tracks.

• Vocals: add warmth and richness or go for a vintage vibe.
• Guitars: infuse electric and acoustic guitars with body and character.
• Drums: bring punch, energy and warmth to your drum tracks.
• Bass: add weight, warmth and definition to bass lines.
• Mix Bus: glue your mix together with analog warmth for added depth.


Key Features

• 8 distinct saturation modes from 5 different tube units: delivers a wide range of saturation profiles, combining saturation and preamp stages to emulate the warmth and harmonic richness of vintage tube hardware.
• Pre/Post saturation EQ & filters: includes fixed emphasis and de-emphasis EQ stages, along with high/low-shelf Baxandall filters and variable high-pass/low-pass filters for precise tonal shaping and frequency control.
• Auto gain compensation: maintains consistent output levels when adjusting saturation drive.
• User-friendly interface: streamlined design for fast and efficient sound shaping.
• Listening modes (Δ, LR, M, S): provide advanced monitoring for isolating different components during editing.
• Cross-platform compatibility: available in VST, VST3, AAX, and AU formats.


Selected emulation modes

Teal offers eight unique saturation/preamp modes, each inspired by classic tube hardware and tailored for specific tonal results. Here's a summary of each mode:

• Rhythm
Modeled after the tube preamp stage of a classic compressor, this mode provides creamy saturation with natural tube compression. It’s perfect for vocals, drums, or mix bus applications, adding smoothness and warmth while subtly controlling dynamics for a cohesive sound.

• Coffee 47 Line
A recreation of a classic British valve preamp, offering silky, warm saturation with a subtle midrange boost. This mode is perfect for adding vintage character to instruments or mixes, smoothing out harsh elements while keeping clarity and detail intact.

• Coffee 47 Mic
Tailored for microphone signals, this mode delivers dense, harmonically rich saturation. It enhances vocals and instruments with smooth, vintage warmth, giving them a polished, professional tone while preserving detail in the high frequencies.

• Caviar 27 Ch 1
Based on a rare Soviet tube preamp, this mode delivers thick, warm saturation with a strong presence in the low mids. It’s perfect for adding weight and body to drums and bass, giving your track a vintage, analog feel with a unique tonal character.

• Caviar 27 Ch 2
The more aggressive counterpart to Ch 1, this mode delivers punchy, acute saturation. It’s ideal for lead instruments, distorted guitars, and energetic elements in your mix, adding intense harmonic richness and a cutting edge.

• Eminence 128
Based on an American tube compressor/preamp from the '50s-'60s, this mode offers a thick, punchy saturation with natural compression. It’s ideal for adding weight to bass, drums, and guitars, delivering a vintage, bold tone that gets gritty when pushed hard.

• Violet 2 Line
A British tube preamp known for its clean, powerful gain. This mode provides smooth, transparent saturation that adds warmth and depth to line-level signals. It excels when you need clarity with a touch of tube character, maintaining a pristine sound even when driven.

• Violet 2 Mic
A flexible British tube preamp for microphone inputs, delivering full-bodied warmth and rich harmonic texture. It’s perfect for vocals and acoustic instruments, providing a vintage tone that remains smooth and detailed, enhancing the sound without overpowering it.

Each mode in Teal is designed to bring a unique tube saturation flavor, allowing you to tailor the harmonic distortion to suit your project’s needs.





Teal GUI




Technical information:

• Supported formats: VST2, VST3, AAX, and AU.
• Available sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, and 96 kHz.
• Compatible with Windows 10 and 11.
• Compatible with macOS 10.15 (Catalina) to macOS Sonoma (version 14.x).
• Intel, AMD, and ARM compatible.
• Native Apple Silicon support (Rosetta not supported).


Price and availability

Teal introductory price: €69 | 30% OFF until November 21, 2024 at 11:59 pm CET (reg. price €99)
Get it here!

The product is at an introductory period for the first four weeks after release or until the first official version is released; this implies that the product may receive improvements, changes, or fixes available through Aquarius Desktop updates.

Try our FREE 30-Day Trial
Note: Teal trial version includes 44.1 - 48 - 88.2 - 96 kHz sample rates.
Please remember that trials expire 30 days after authorization, and we strongly recommend not using trial products in commercial sessions or any important project.

Teal user's manual


Teal webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/shop/products/TEAL

[TBlake]

yet another "gamechanger". reselling us existing products for yet another cash grab. *yawn*

[seangm]

I like my AA plugins but I can't keep up with this release schedule, it's overwhelming

[TBlake]

I like my AA plugins but I can't keep up with this release schedule, it's overwhelming

It was ridiculous when it became the plugin of the month, which turned into the plugin of the week. it won't be long before it's the plugin of the day. all to prop up an unsustainable business model.

[S950]

How much would it cost for someone to own the entire Acustica catalogue?

[billinder33]

All the bitcoins

[TIMT]

How much would it cost for someone to own the entire Acustica catalogue?

Many schmeckles

[hightyde]

How much would it cost for someone to own the entire Acustica catalogue?

1,000,000 gold bullion

[dblock]

At first I didn't want to even demo it. As some have mentioned, I saw it as "just another one of those" but I tried it and liked it. I've got other saturators just like I have other compressors and eqs and imo, it is it's own thing with it's own flavor of what there are plenty of out there. I liked it on kick especially and bass and decided there is room for it without feeling it's exactly the same sounding as what I already have and for $33 after discounts it was definitely worth it and will get used right away.

[bmanic]

Also tried it for about 10 minutes. Same AA jank as always.. useless metering, buggy controls and this time around quite boring sound which is hard to manage between gooey goodness and harsh overdriven uselessness. The sweetspot is difficult to find. The best sounds I could get out of this plugin was running it really clean and subtle but I have so many other plugins that do that task better (including some AA plugins).

Also there is no way to uninstall the demo from within Aquarius. So yeah, quite a disappointing release.

[dblock]

Also tried it for about 10 minutes. Same AA jank as always.. useless metering, buggy controls and this time around quite boring sound which is hard to manage between gooey goodness and harsh overdriven uselessness. The sweetspot is difficult to find. The best sounds I could get out of this plugin was running it really clean and subtle but I have so many other plugins that do that task better (including some AA plugins).

Also there is no way to uninstall the demo from within Aquarius. So yeah, quite a disappointing release.

When I decided to buy it, I uninstalled the demo first using the Aquarious software with no problem.

[Ou_Tis]

Also tried it for about 10 minutes. Same AA jank as always.. useless metering, buggy controls and this time around quite boring sound which is hard to manage between gooey goodness and harsh overdriven uselessness. The sweetspot is difficult to find. The best sounds I could get out of this plugin was running it really clean and subtle but I have so many other plugins that do that task better (including some AA plugins).

Also there is no way to uninstall the demo from within Aquarius. So yeah, quite a disappointing release.

It's dark tubes, with nice bass boosts... not "boring" if used well / on the right material. But could seem "boring" if you want to make sh*t brighter.

[bmanic]

When I decided to buy it, I uninstalled the demo first using the Aquarious software with no problem.

That's what I usually do but for some reason it didn't show up anywhere this time around. Very strange.

[bmanic]

It's dark tubes, with nice bass boosts... not "boring" if used well / on the right material. But could seem "boring" if you want to make sh*t brighter.

Oh no it isn't. It has all kinds of tubes, some of them are super dark and some are quite bright and some a bit "pillowy". The problem is that they don't sound all that good when over driven. I don't think AA's tech is mature enough to pull that off yet properly. Also the sweet spots are not at all easy to find, very much unlike various pieces of hardware. It's too inconsistent and weird.

But yeah, you go on lecturing me about what is the right way to use this thing. I don't know at all what I'm doing.. I never do.

[Liero]

But yeah, you go on lecturing me about what is the right way to use this thing. I don't know at all what I'm doing.. I never do.

Come on, man, you've been on the internet too long to not know that you don't flame the trolls and the ignoramuses! AA threads are some of the worst on KVR already and this is not helping!