In my opinion I’d rather save my money not buying plugins and try and buy a few pieces of quality outboard gear. Im probably preaching to the choir a little bit and also rambling a bit… but hardware plugins just can’t emulate hardware the way we’d like them to. In the DAW world everybody tracks dries and then applies EQs and stuff to the dry file… but in the hardware world that 1073 would be sitting in the record chain so the output of the 1073 would be recorded. so if they liked it on drums it went on the drum bus, if they liked it on vocals it went on the vocal chain… and the beautiful thing was you could actually use it on two different tracks if you use it while tracking vocals but also while mixing drums, for instance. If the LA-2A had started as a software plug-in instead of a piece of hardware it probably wouldn’t be very widely acclaimed… however because people had to choose what track to put it on when they got one for their studio they had to choose the best track. I believe it’s the limiting factor of hardware that brings out the most creativity. You buy a plug-in and you can easily overuse it by throwing it on everything just because you think it sounds good. You buy one piece of outboard gear and you have to carefully choose where to put it. The plug-ins may clip at 0dB or 6dB whereas the hardware won’t “clip” it will just distort/sizzle at higher inputs…ĭiff #2: when you work with hardware you are limited on what you can use it on. The hardware has a ton more headroom than the digital plugins. The “Neve” sound of the 1073 IMO comes from the color added when you drive the input hot.
Headroom: when you drive an analog signal hot… that is usually where the magic happens with EQs, preamps, compressors etc. Honestly some of this analog gear you can get “close” but it can’t accurately be recreated with software. Melda Production MTurboEQ set to Meve 7381Īnalog Obsession BitChannel and BitPre (FREE)Īntelope Audio BAE-1073 (requires Antelope interface)Īs always, feel free to link me to any I have missed. Slate Digital FG-73 on their Virtual Preamp collection
UAD Neve 1073 Preamp & EQ collection (requires UAD interface to buy and own) Stam Audio Engineering 1073EQ+ MK2 (clone)Īudio Maintenance Limited ez1073eq (clone) Official reissue AMS Neve 1073 Mic Preamp/EQĪ Brief History of the Legendary Neve 1073 This time, the best known mic preamp/EQ: Neve 1073
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