Topic: Pre-digital Age Preamps Sale!
Prior to the advent of digital computer generated music, peamps were used extensively to make music recordings (hits and non-hits alike). But, the music from Beethoven to the Beatles had been recorded without virtual instruments —only with musical instruments made by highly skilled craftsmen. So, to get important sounds from these expertly crafted instruments recorded, and into the ears of anxious listeners, who made up the buying public, well trained engineers relied upon arrays of mics that were inescapably connected via lengthly microphone cords to manufactured preamps. These preamps models had boosted the signals enough for the engineer to mix them to his tastes as he sat at the console housed inside a really renowned recording studio.
Today inside software, inside PIANOTEQ while you've a selection of mic models and several choice world piano manufactures' piano grand models, you got no preamp. You've none to replicate that Beatles or Funkadelic piano or drumbeat sound coming through the preamps as heard off a real record. That one which made everything recorded on Dad's reel-to-reel sound very homemade and outright amateurish to you.
Enter Arturia, which with its preamps now on sale can take your piano recordings from something somewhat digitally dry to indeed an enormous difference that simply reminds you of the olden days —when unlike some popular digitally recorded song you were a boy who kissed a girl, or vice versa!
Until March 4th, it'll do it at a special introductory offer per each of the three (3) preamp plugins on the company's product page (linked). The offer amounts to a $49.00 (US) purchase price per preamp plugin.
However if you dislike the sound of that, you may become interested to know AUDIODELUXE includes the plugins along with several others sold in the Arturia FX Collection for a total approximately $299.00 (US).
I'm now considering a preamp audio example or two which I may post onto another thread if you're going to stay tuned. You and others may like well to hear the combination of piano, microphones, and preamps all physically modeled; if it is truly identical to the piano recordings of yesteryear that is something surely you may just have to hear for yourself.
The Arturia Pre 1973
The Arturia Pre TridA
The Arturia Pre V76
Edit: included 'boy who kissed a girl’ part. Let me see MODARTT also delete this post of mine!