So what we have here is a big 3ru height heavy 26 lb black box filled with tubes and transformers from a company called black box analog design.
Black box hg 2 plugin review.
Developed by brainworx the official plugin emulation of black box analog design s gorgeous 3000 chunk of boutique hardware valve distortion is built with mastering applications in mind but is also applicable to group busses and even single instrument and vocal channels in need of harmonic sweetening.
Blackbox analog design have a beautiful machine that sits in a black box on a master buss rack on many studio engineers of consequence.
Dave pensado views it as one of the three outboard boxes that go on his every mix.
Black box analog design has now teamed up with brainworx and plugin alliance to produce a plug in version so you can enjoy its analogue loveliness from the comfort of your favourite daw.
Blackbox hg 2 plugin long story short i demoed the new blackbox hg 2 plugin and it s amazing i ll have to save for a hardware unit.
The blackboxanalogdesign hg 2 is a stereo tube saturation processor.
Black box analog design hg 2 review.
That s a lot to like already and i haven t even told you what it does yet.
Brainworx collaborated with black box to model the hg 2 s sweet tubes and creamy sounding transformers and then added a host of powerful digital mods to greatly expand the processor s tonal palette and range of saturation based compression.
Series link the plug in emulates the input and output transformers plus the four different vacuum tube stages of the original unit including the main 6u8a.
Hg 2 tube processor tape op review by scott craggs.
The original hg 2 by black box analog design is a boutique 2 channel tube based hardware unit that provides a wide variety of color options for your mix bus with the flexibility and control expected of a modern processor.
Now you can have that lush and vibrant sound in the black box hg 2 plugin.
Now plugin al liance has designed a software emulation of the hg 2 that brings its three different vacuum tube stages one of which provides two different tube options.
I know it was designed for the mixbuss but people have used it in many ways.
Black box hg 2 why dave pensado uses it on every mix.
Black box analog design.