All through the ‘70s and ‘80s, AKG presented a singular take at the spring reverb live performance with its BX collection. This kicked off with the sizeable BX20, and was once adopted via the extra transportable BX10, rackmounted BX5 after which the BX25, which added a integrated lengthen.
If you wish to pay attention what the BX packing containers had been all about, Klanghelm is now supplying you with the chance with its new Tens plugin. Impressed via AKG’s design – which enabled more than a few attached spring parts of various lengths and cord diameter to vibrate inside of a small, remoted house – this provides quite a lot of decay instances and outputs in stereo moderately than the unique mono.
You’ll tweak the sound the use of Rigidity, Whoosh and Steel controls, whilst the non-compulsory (pre)amp saturation will also be positioned anyplace within the sign chain. There are 3 modulation slots; each and every of those gives an envelope and an LFO, which can be utilized to modulate any parameter. The envelope follower will also be caused via the enter, output or an exterior sidechain sign, and you’ll be able to additionally use it for ducking results.
The hope is that Tens will have the ability to recreating the type of deep, natural reverbs that the BX fashions had been recognized for, with the ones modulation choices opening up the potential of fashioning tremolo, refrain, vibrato and phaser-style sounds as smartly.
If you need a style of Tens however don’t wish to stump up the $24 that it prices, there’s additionally a loose model, Tens Jr, which will provide you with only a unmarried tank to paintings with. It’s nonetheless stereo, even though, and likewise gives a unmarried fader that lets you regulate its personality.
Each variations of Tens are to be had now and run in VST/AU/AAX codecs for PC and Mac. In finding out extra at the Klanghelm site.
Allow 48h for review and removal.