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.
Black box analog design.
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.
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.
Now you can have that lush and vibrant sound in the black box hg 2 plugin.
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.
Dave pensado views it as one of the three outboard boxes that go on his every mix.
Black box analog design hg 2 review.
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.
I know it was designed for the mixbuss but people have used it in many ways.
The blackboxanalogdesign hg 2 is a stereo tube saturation processor.
Blackbox analog design have a beautiful machine that sits in a black box on a master buss rack on many studio engineers of consequence.
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.
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.
Hg 2 tube processor tape op review by scott craggs.
Https goo gl swt5zh a faithful emulation of the original hardware from black box the.
Bob horn swears by it as do bob horn and richard devine.
Black box hg 2 why dave pensado uses it on every mix.