| This current vogue for virtual pre amps reminds alot of the antares mic modeller plugin, anyone who remebers it will recall that they basically claimed that running your vocals through it would turn your sm58 into a u87...did it work??..hell no, not even close.
To anyone who uses decent preamps the shortcomings of a virtual pre will be obvious, the whole idea behind a preamp is to boost your signal to a desireable level of volume and sound quality before it is recorded, any attempt to rectify a poor quality recording after the fact with a plugin strikes me as turd polishing.However i do believe that some of these new virtual pres may be able to add a pleasing colour to material that has been already recorded through a quality transparent pre. |