Each one also incorporates a color change button allowing three choices to modify the process per plug-in. The five different 'flavors' of PHOENIX can result in a much more musical and satisfying sound.Įach one of the five different TDM plug-ins emulate different tape characteristics. The result is that added realism that is missing in many modeled synths, EQs and digital samplers. The plug-in can introduce large amounts of second harmonic distortion resulting in a large fat smooth sound.PHOENIX is a TDM plug-in suite for Pro Tools HD that is designed to put analog color into the digital domain by increasing apparent loudness without increasing gain (e.g., by modeling analog tape compression). Pushing it to higher levels creates ugly sounds. It is more of a matter of finding the control position that is optimum. The amount of time modulation with the Dynamic control is level dependent and has a maximum range.

The Silver setting is lighter setting and coloring increases in the order of the settings Silver, Gold, Rich, Fat, Deep. It has been optimized at 96K but will work fine at other sample rates. It modulates some of the internal functions an adds dither to the audio path at a level for 16 bit ditheringĬolor = Gold is an extremely close match to the test material which is a record and the original wave file. The Dither control adds noise that is the spectrum of record noise. The first is due to the cutter and the playback stylus not having the same shape, this is called tracing distortion the other is tracking distortion due to the playback systems miss-alignment and the inability to perfectly follow the grove in the record. There are two main components that cause time modulation in a vinyl record. The Dynamic control is the tricky one, what is does is time modulate the distortion components which are very frequency dependent due to the RIAA curve. The Color switch changes the character / interaction of the controls and sets the maximum amount of midrange / LF color and the HF compression characteristic. The Harmonic and Dynamic controls interact and control the level of the harmonic distortion.

There are three main controls Harmonic, Dynamic and Color. On individual tracks it is also very useful in creating large fat sounds, smoothing of the harmonic content and making a nice smooth vintage sound on vocals and other instruments. The Crane Song Peacock AAX Plug-in can be used on a stereo bus to create the classic vinyl sound.

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