TL Audio Fat Track for electronic music---any good?

[zebastian21]

so after reading many many threads about it it seems like its a 50-50 situation, it gets some love and hate around here.
So, I was offered a Fat track for $999 , i was looking into a dangerous Music 2bus at first and the whole theory and practicality of analog summing.
So the Fat track offers Summing and also 2 pre amps, which i could use to color the ITB synths if needed .
Anyone using it and can share experiences with it?
I would only be using it to give my tracks some warmth and also for summing to get a wider sound.
thx

[sergioelectro]

Originally Posted by zebastian21

so after reading many many threads about it it seems like its a 50-50 situation, it gets some love and hate around here.
So, I was offered a Fat track for $999 , i was looking into a dangerous Music 2bus at first and the whole theory and practicality of analog summing.
So the Fat track offers Summing and also 2 pre amps, which i could use to color the ITB synths if needed .
Anyone using it and can share experiences with it?
I would only be using it to give my tracks some warmth and also for summing to get a wider sound.
thx

I am also looking for the same info and feedback from Fat Track users.

But they seem to be very a few here :-)

Regards

Sergio

[synthmagic]

Fat track is a great bit of kit-Really does sound good.
EQ's are lovely and the whole unit just feels and sounds good.
I love it.

[Spectral Climax]

I have read about some reliability problems concerning Fat Track... SPL Kultube can also be used for extra warmth/color and punch. I just don't think that these devices are very far from ITB solutions...

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by Spectral Climax

I have read about some reliability problems concerning Fat Track... SPL Kultube can also be used for extra warmth/color and punch. I just don't think that these devices are very far from ITB solutions...

mmm the Kultube is a fast compressor/expander with a clean and fast VCA cell. It's colour comes mostly (apart from a bright SPL "sheen") from the (optional) Lundahl transformers, and tube (if driven into distrortion). Sonically I'd put it next to the Mpressor and if you squint your eyes the VSC-2 Vertigo. (IMHO it's a sleeper, if you're looking for bright, fast, sparkly) Software is not in the same playing field, transients are compressed very differently in all of these hardware units. I have not tried the VSC-2 plugin, but did try the Mpressor plugin. Hardware is different, though I think the plugin is worth the money.
So perhaps you mean the SPL Qure equaliser or Charisma tube saturator. The sound of those is again depending on what tube you stick in there.

I think good gear has more depth than just one trick of adding distortions (changing the sound) in some way. Some of it sounds (still very) different from plugins.
I've never used the TL Audio Fat Track.

[Spectral Climax]

Originally Posted by Reptil

I think good gear has more depth than just one trick of adding distortions (changing the sound) in some way. Some of it sounds (still very) different from plugins.

Different, but not much better when we talk for gear around $1500 IMO.

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by Spectral Climax

Different, but not much better when we talk for gear around $1500 IMO.

LOL I'm not going to argue your opinion, everyone has different expectations and strategies. if that weren't so, it would become boring.

The money issue... for the time I've had my kultube (from early 2002) how many software updates would I have gotten for a compressor plugin? how many new (better) plugs would I have bought? how is the compressor plugin bought in 2002 doing anyway? how many DAW platform changes? how much do$h did I throw into the black hole that is a DAW? I know I threw in a lot!

[Spectral Climax]

Come on Reptil! No one forces you to update..ok, maybe some basic updates...but, if it works well from the first time, why do you really have to update it? ...even nowadays that we have so many hardware and software sequencers, Norman Cook and many others still do the sequencing on their ancient Atari STs...

I can agree about the resale value though...you can't sell a plugin so easily as you could sell a hardware compressor/preamp etc.. so, you have to stick with your choices for many years. This is productive for many musicians but maybe not for gearslutz...

[TWM]

I haven't had any problems with it. As previously mentioned, the EQs are great. You can overdrive them nicely and you can get a much wider pan than straight from a DAW.