Vintage Gear Plugins

Can anyone comment on these? Do you like them? Are they usefull? Do they work well with AA1.5 / 3.0?

Hardware: Chandler Limited TG2 is a recreation of the rare EMI TG12428 pre amp used in EMI/Abbey Road

Plugins: Chandler - Compressor / Mastering
Plugins: Abbey Road Plugins!!! / Downloadable Demos
Plugins: UAD - Pultec EQ / LA2a / 1176

Note - you need to buy an ILOK to use the Abbey Road Demos.

This is amazing - here we have high-quality plugins and no response as to any use of them.

I'm guessing the reasons you haven't received any responses are because

A: The Abbey Road plug-ins are not compatible with Audition (the only plug-in of the two listed that comes in VST is the TG12413 Limiter, at $335)
B: The Chandler page you listed as a plug-in page only has the Abbey Road plug-ins listed.  There are no Chandler plug-ins.  All the rest on the page is hardware.
C: All of the UAD plug-ins are UAD and/or RTAS versions, neither of which are Audition compatible.  (In fact, the UAD plug-ins require the UAD card and latest version of their Powered Plug-ins software.)


I hope this has curbed your amazement. 

Great answer. I really don't know much about plugins.

VST / TG12413 Limiter - sounds interesting - the ILOK 40.00 key needed to install the demo slows me down from trying it....

Thanks.

I haven't yet made the plunge into iLok territory myself.  If I had occasions to take my plug-ins from computer to computer then it might be something I would get.  I don't yet have any reason to transfer plug-ins regularly so I just use the registration key method (and print out the keys for a paper record).

When I started doing the computer recording/mixing thing I didn't know squat about plug-ins.  After poking around the internet for awhile and doing research on plug-ins I realized that a lot of the high-end, brand name gear manufacturers who came out with plug-ins (TC Electronics comes immediately to mind) made them compatible only with Pro Tools and sometimes even with their own proprietary cards (as you can see with UAD).
If a plug-in comes in VST, VSTi, or Direct X (a Microsoft protocol dying a slow death even though it is viable) then it is compatible with Audition. 
You should check out the plug-in lists on this forum and on the AA forum for some good advice on plug-ins.

Besides some of the nice free VST plug-ins I've found I'm partial to the plug-ins made by PSP Audioware, a company out of Poland.  You can get some fully functional demos.

wow.... thats great information... this solve my friends problem which occurs from last month...
thanx.



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It's true that the UA plugs require their card(s), but we run them all the time in AA2, AA3 and
sometimes AA1.5 as VST plug-ins.

We also have some of the actual vintage gear here- Pultecs, LA-2s, 1176's and LA-3s.
The UAD emulations seem extremely good.

I don't use the Pultec as much as the limiter/comps, and even there not always, but all seem
good.  The UA reverbs seem extremely good.  We also have quite of few of their other
plugs too and mostly like 'em.

All seem to run much better overall using the newer PCIe UAD-2 card (a duo in our case)
than on another system which runs them using 3 of the older UAD-1s, which are PCI.
But even on the older machine (a single core P4) they run pretty well with AA3.
We often use the UA stuff along with some Waves plugs, and sometimes with Ozone.
At times all this can somewhat max out the older machine, but less so with the
newer one which is a dual-core Pentium. (diff from a Core2Duo).

Waves also makes VEQ3 and VEQ4 which are handy and work well with Audition 3:
http://waves.com/Content.aspx?id=371
http://waves.com/Content.aspx?id=372

I think Guitar Rig 3 from Native Instruments is also worth a mention as you can tweak, combine, and stomp/EQ to your heart's content.  It also works beautifully with Audition 3.
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=guitarrig3se

They're all sort of pricey, but they're worth it if you really have a demand for their capabilities.