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

https://medias.arturia.net/images/products/1973-pre/3d-1973.jpg

The Arturia Pre TridA

https://medias.arturia.net/images/products/trida-pre/3d-trida.jpg

The Arturia Pre V76

https://medias.arturia.net/images/products/v76-pre/3d-v76.jpg


Edit: included 'boy who kissed a girl’ part.  Let me see MODARTT also delete this post of mine!

Last edited by Amen Ptah Ra (26-02-2020 15:57)
Pianoteq 8 Studio Bundle, Pearl malletSTATION EM1, Roland (DRUM SOUND MODULE TD-30, HandSonic 10, AX-1), Akai EWI USB, Yamaha DIGITAL PIANO P-95, M-Audio STUDIOPHILE BX5, Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 DSP.

Re: Pre-digital Age Preamps Sale!

Thanks for posting this, Amen. Please do post mp3's using these premaps with Pianoteq.

EDIT: I downloaded the demo versions. You can use any of them for 20 minutes in demo mode, without any hisses, etc. After the 20 minutes, you must close your project and reopen it before the demo will work again. I found the preamps and compressors to work best on instruments, so far--I had trouble getting a good sound with vocals, partly because I already have pre's and compressors that I like for vocals. Their Tape Delay and Reverb, however, are good on vocals, and they have extra controls that appear if you click on the down-pointing arrows in the upper right corner of the interface. Worth mentioning because these controls let you modulate various aspects of the program with an LFO. Nice sounds if used gently.

But you were posting about Pianoteq and the preamps. Haven't had the chance to try the pre's or compressors with it yet. Just trying them on vocals and guitar took up most of my morning.

Last edited by Jake Johnson (21-02-2020 02:14)

Re: Pre-digital Age Preamps Sale!

Jake, I’ve just posted examples.  Do let me know if preamp ones sound more like professionally recorded audio than any recorded just from an unmodified preset.

Pianoteq 8 Studio Bundle, Pearl malletSTATION EM1, Roland (DRUM SOUND MODULE TD-30, HandSonic 10, AX-1), Akai EWI USB, Yamaha DIGITAL PIANO P-95, M-Audio STUDIOPHILE BX5, Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 DSP.

Re: Pre-digital Age Preamps Sale!

Hi folks,
If you want Arturia plugins like this in future always remember to pick up all the freebies they offer, such as the recent free plate reverb or the previous free Moog style filter.
When you register their freebies (which also become commercial products) you are then already considered a customer and they offer you extra big discounts.
I got an offer of $100 extra off this package (bringing it to $199) and I haven't even bought a single Arturia plug.