Fuse Audio Labs releases the Tube Lab Retro Channel with Intro Offer

[fuseaudiolabs]

TUBE LAB RETRO TUBE CHANNEL RELEASE



MOD FORMULA

Tube Lab is a vintage channel strip built to be driven for character - warm, thick, gritty, and beautifully alive under gain. It combines a multi-tube preamp, a Baxandall-style EQ, and an optical leveler into an intuitive workflow with flexible module routing. Rather than locking you into a fixed path, Tube Lab lets you configure tube flavors and module order to shape your custom tone.

GLASS CATALOGUE

The preamp offers a carefully selected range of classic tube types, from 12AT7, 12AU7, and 12AX7 to 6DJ8 and 12DW7. Each bringing its own balance of headroom, density, and grit. These options deliver distinct tonal behaviors, ranging from restrained coloration to fat, dirty, and aggressively driven sounds.

CLASSIC CHAIN

A three-band Baxandall EQ shapes tone in broad, musical strokes, encouraging instinctive, musical moves. Dynamics are handled by an opto compressor offering classic and modern modes, with optional automatic gain control for smooth, musical results. Internal routing allows EQ and compression to be reordered as needed.

LAB READY

Tube Lab is a straight, hands-on experience. Gain staging, tone shaping, and dynamics come together quickly in a natural flow. From vocals and bass to guitars, drums, keys, and full stems, Tube Lab excels wherever weight, density, and tube character are desired - subtle and controlled, or pushed hard as a true tone-shaping monster.

On sale for only $29 ($69 regular) until May 2nd 2026.

Download your fully functional 14-day trial here



Take a listen...

https://soundcloud.com/fuseaudiolabs/se ... b-examples

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https://fuseaudiolabs.com/faq.html

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[imrae]

Oh no! Thought I'd finally figured out I don't need/use channel strips. But this is going to be brilliant, isn't it?

I feel like most strips are treated as "Great EQ with handy dynamics" but this one will be "great compressor with handy EQ". Which changes the use-case a bit

[mimtemdo]

Zero latency? I prefer to ask before using a trial period.

[VariKusBrainZ]

2 weeks after the Black Rooster strip. Both been quiet for a while. Coincidences!

[zvenx]

I have no idea when the Black Rooster Strip started development, but I can tell you the Fuse Audio one has been awhile in testing (long before the Black Rooster one was released).
rsp

[fuseaudiolabs]

Hi mimtemdo,

Zero latency? I prefer to ask before using a trial period.

It's 32 samples aka <0.75 ms @44.1k and accordingly less at higher sample rates.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Ray

[VariKusBrainZ]

I have no idea when the Black Rooster Strip started development, but I can tell you the Fuse Audio one has been awhile in testing (long before the Black Rooster one was released).
rsp

Im not suggesting conspiracy
Just noticing

[El°HYM]

After deciding 'not to buy' any more plugins, suddenly Reimund Dratwa comes around the corner with his new Opto, BAX, Tube Amp.

[billinder33]

Haven't demoed yet, but from the video it looks very cool. I liked the runthrough of the different tube models, nice variety. Great intro price, and I'm a sucker for a good character heavy channel strip but not sure I need any more plugins of this nature.

@FuseAudio... sorry if I missed this, what's the oversampling scheme in this plugin?

[fuseaudiolabs]

Hi billinder,

@FuseAudio... sorry if I missed this, what's the oversampling scheme in this plugin?

It's the usual x4 @44.1k / 48k, x2 @88.2k / 96k, x1 @176.4k scheme, i.e. it will run at a x4 rate or more internally no matter what.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Ray

[whassup]

The audio examples sound good.

[mentooool]

it's weird to see brilliant (or very brilliant) plugin developers that know everything about tubes, unable to implement proper mousewheel control or numeric/keyboard entry

why?

p.s.
the plugin sounds great (as usual)

[fuseaudiolabs]

Hi mentool,

Thanks for your comments.

it's weird to see brilliant (or very brilliant) plugin developers that know everything about tubes, unable to implement proper mousewheel control or numeric/keyboard entry

why?

It’s because for stuff like that one usually relies on the developer of the underlying GUI framework — VSTGUI in our case. Numeric input hasn't been implemented so far except for the OCELOT series, but we would like to add that feature in the future in the same fashion we recently did for the entire Neold line of plugins.

We are, of course, always open to (sensible) suggestions for improvement and sometimes also feature requests, so could you please elaborate on what you think is wrong with the mousewheel control?

Best,
Ray

[mentooool]

when will the intro price end?

[mentooool]

Hi mentool,

Thanks for your comments.

it's weird to see brilliant (or very brilliant) plugin developers that know everything about tubes, unable to implement proper mousewheel control or numeric/keyboard entry

why?

It’s because for stuff like that one usually relies on the developer of the underlying GUI framework — VSTGUI in our case. Numeric input hasn't been implemented so far except for the OCELOT series, but we would like to add that feature in the future in the same fashion we recently did for the entire Neold line of plugins.

We are, of course, always open to (sensible) suggestions for improvement and sometimes also feature requests, so could you please elaborate on what you think is wrong with the mousewheel control?

Best,
Ray

sure, my pleasure

on most plugins that offer mousewheel control (eg. u-he stuff) a single mousewheel click is equal to a single knob click, meaning that you have better and more intuitive ergonomics and a faster workflow (eg. when quickly switching from a band frequency to another)

some goes with numeric entry: if 21 is too little and 22 is too much, i want to be able to quickly choose 21.5, instead of jumping from 21.3 to 21.7; also, if you don't like/want the feature you can easily ignore it

that's all