The definitive sound of the world’s best studios, perfectly recreated for the modern producer. Color your tone, saturate your signal, or give everything a subtle, vintage lift. For years, top producers have coveted the sound of the venerable 1073 preamp. Now – through the power of Arturia’s advanced TAE modelling – you too can have a taste of that harmonically rich, classic tone in your DAW.
Devised by visionary electronics engineer and pro audio legend Rupert Neve, the preamp became a staple of the world’s top studios, and added its unique tonal flavor to countless hits. It was a revolution in 1970, pioneering the use of reliable high-efficiency transistors to replace the temperamental vacuum tube technology of the time. The sound of the preamp became an instant hit with record producers, sound engineers, and artists the world over, cementing its place in music history. Continuing that revolution, using their exclusive TAE technology, Arturia have recreated this phenomenal piece of music production history. Capturing and recreating its distinct musical color, its pleasing analog distortion, and its sweet-sounding tone controls, you’ll be able to start your virtual signal chain with one of the best sounding pres ever created.
Main Features:
- Automatic gain control intelligently alters the output volume based on the changes you make to the input gain.
- Continuous controls, rather than stepped, for extra creative precision.
- Switchable transformers, letting you choose between the original Carnill and the modified Marinair components, so you can easily choose which hardware voicing sounds best on your signal.
- Self contained mid/side mode, so you don’t need to use additional convertors to use this advanced studio technique, your audio will sound amazing in both mono and stereo.
- 1 & 2 channels plugin versions
- Comprehensive set of presets
- State-of-the-art TAE analog modeling
Virtual recreation of famed classic British preamp
- 60 dB virtual continuous input gain
- 2 type of output transformers
- +/- 24 dB Output trim level
Complete switchable EQ section
- Include bypass & phase Inversion switch
High Shelf Filter
- +/- 18dB gain
- Fixed frequency of 12kHz
Midrange Bell Filter
- +/- 18 dB gain
- Continuous frequency range from 360Hz to 7.2kHz
Low Shelf Filter
- +/- 18dB gain
- Continuous frequency range from 35Hz to 220Hz
High Pass Filter
- -18dB/oct. Slope
- Continuous frequency range from 50Hz to 300Hz
3 stereo modes
- Stereo Link
- Dual Mono Channels
- Mid/side (M/S) encoding-decoding for advanced stereo processing
Output Analog VU meter
- 3 calibrations mode (-18dBFs, -12dBS, -8 dBFs)
- Analog clipping LED indicator
Windows
Win 8.1+ (64bit)
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
6GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
Required configuration
VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).
Apple
Mac OS 10.13+
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
6GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU