AnalogX, TBT Deep Vintage

[billinder33]

Anyone using these? I've been going through their sites level matching and A/B'ing the results and honestly I don't hear much difference over the level-matched unprocessed files. With the TBT DVs it's almost nil, where AnalogX in rare cases I'll find an example that sounds really good (enhanced width/depth, pumps nicely with the beat, etc.) but more often very little difference level matched, and in many cases worse.

I've recently been going through a phase of investigating 'vibe' plugins so neural capture is a really interesting tech, but this was why I sold off all my high-end, boutique mastering hardware a couple years ago - couldn't justify it after extensive A/B testing. Maybe it's just me, but the algo-based plugins seem good enough or in many cases better than the captures. Not to mention lots of variable controls vs. static snapshots.

Are these plugins better in actual use than their website examples would suggest? Thoughts?

[Danilo Villanova]

TBT DV does sound really nice. I only got the 1081. They've been discussed in gearslutz more extensively than here, and people mostly agree that it's better than Acustica Audio at doing the same thing. It uses way less CPU with no oversampling and, as you said, the sound is very close to the target gear.

https://gearspace.com/board/new-product ... ology.html
https://gearspace.com/board/new-product ... ogy-3.html

[jens]

Got me all excited for a moment - I thought Tin Brook Tales had a new plugin out after all these year... but nah, just more ML bore instead.