#26 FREE Plugin: ThrillseekerVBL (Vintage Broadcast Limiter) - ModernMixing com

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#26 FREE Plugin: ThrillseekerVBL (Vintage Broadcast Limiter)

Variety of Sound does it again. The newest addition to the plugin family is the Thrillseeker VBL (Vintage Broadcast Limiter). Just when you think it can't get any better, it does and the best part is that all his plugins are FREE -- including this one.

This plugin is an emulation of the the early 1950's Variable-Mu design principles. This version, however, has been modified to not only allow for the classic gain reduction but also allows for "detailed access the amount and appearance of harmonic tube amplifier distortion occurring in the analog tube circuit." As a result you can get some nice analog magic that can sometimes be absent in the digital world we work in.

H.L. Goldberg references his innovative Stateful Saturation Approach for letting him model a more accurate transformer coupled tube circuit. This allows for a more authentic transformer simulation which not only "models the typical low-end harmonic distortion but also all the frequency- and load dependent subtleties occurring in a transformer coupled tube circuit, and which add up to that typical mojo we know from the analog classics."


A Run Down of what Everything Does

IN GAIN -- Controls the amount of signal gain coming into the plugin

STEREO -- DUAL M -- while on STEREO, the left and right channel are linked together resulting in the same amount of compressino and distortion on both channels. While on DUAL-M (dual mono) the left and right channel are independent of one another and the amount of compression and distortion will vary based on the input of each channel.

TRAFO -- "Given the TRAFO switch, one can dial in all kinds of artifacts related to an audio transformer coupled circuit. If it's on, the distortion increases with lower frequency and higher system load." (From VBL Manual)

COMP -- Dial in the amount of compression you want by rotating this knob clockwise

EMPHASIS -- This knob is like a High Pass filter where you can let the lower frequencies pass through unaffected and have the rest of the signal processed.

BIAS -- "The actual effect of the BIAS dial is that the HF distortion gets more pronounced, and the signal distortion might appear tighter and brighter the more it gets turned clock-wise. It does not affect the compression directly." (From VBL Manual)

AMP - Dial in the amount of distortion you want by rotating this knob clockwise

BRILLIANCE -- When dialing in the distortion there tends to be some high frequency loss. By turning this knob clockwise, a high shelf boost is applied to the signal so the user can bring back some high frequency information.

OUTPUT -- Controls the signal gain leaving the plugin.

DRY/WET -- Allows the user to control the amount of processed and unprocessed signal that is mixed together.

"When the TRAFO switch is on, phase distortion occurs making it impossible to use external dry/wet mixing outside the plug-in without causing drastic frequency changes of the signal. Use DRY:WET instead, this offers safe, phase coherent internal mixing of unprocessed and processed signals." (From VBL Manual)

ON/OFF -- Allows the user to bypass the plugin for easy before and after comparison.