Grammy Winner Greg Wells on Apogee FX Plugins
“I’m loving the FX bundle, and the Pultecs feel exactly like my hardware.”
“I’m loving the FX bundle, and the Pultecs feel exactly like my hardware.”
Bob has considerable experience with the original hardware Pultec EQP-1A Program EQ and the most popular plugin emulations including Apogee’s Pultec EQP-1A, the only emulation officially endorsed by the manufacturer of Pultec hardware products, Pulse Techniques. Here’s his detailed and insightful analysis of Apogee’s plugin.
Apogee’s innovative Dualpath Monitoring workflow offers three important benefits: virtually zero latency, a simple one-window operation, and the maximum processing potential of your computer’s CPU. With other audio interfaces, you’re forced to compromise, with Dualpath Monitoring, you can have all three at the same time.
Apogee’s innovative Dualpath Monitoring workflow offers three important benefits: virtually zero latency, a simple one-window operation, and the maximum processing potential of your computer’s CPU. With other audio interfaces, you’re forced to compromise, with Dualpath Monitoring, you can have all three at the same time.
In this video, you’ll learn about Clearmountain’s Domain and Clearmountain’s Spaces, the software plugins from Apogee that bring the cohesive spaces, expansive dimensions, and rich sonic atmospheres of the legendary Bob Clearmountain into your mix. For decades, engineers, producers and musicians have marveled at the work of Bob Clearmountain. Think of the most popular recordings by iconic artists like David Bowie, Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, and so many others. An important hallmark of all these recordings is those cohesive soundscapes and rich atmospheres where, in his own words, his mixes live. Where musical elements each have their own place and dimension but all blend together in a seamless whole. He even has a name for this sonic concoction that he creates for every mix, he calls it Clearmountain’s Domain.
The idea of having additional horsepower available via external DSP to run whatever plugins you want might seem like an ideal solution for many modern recording engineers. However, computers have become extremely powerful and plugin developers are constantly improving their software to be more CPU efficient. The combination of these two things means that today’s computers can handle more audio plugins than ever before. So do you really need external DSP?