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PSP Audioware PSP L'otary
$99; www.pspaudioware.com
PSP Audioware is a Polish plug-in company
whose products are not just off the shelf emulations of famous analog gear. PSP's Antoni
Ozynski, Mateusz Wozniak, and their team
take an approach of modeling the circuits of
vintage classics and then building their own
custom plug-in devices that sound not just classic, but stellar. On top of that, these are some
of the most affordable plug-ins on the market.
PSP L'otary is PSP Audioware's new rotary
cabinet simulator. While rotary speaker simulators are nothing new, and most modern DAWs
usually offer one stock in their plug-in collections, none of them are as detailed and spot
on as L'otary. Even full-on rotary-equipped
organ-based softsynths cannot come close to
this level of control and detail.
PSP L'otary gives you the usual section of
horn and drum speeds, complete with a
fast/slow/stop control, global EQ, and even
general amp settings. From there PSP adds
advanced inertia settings for the horn and
drum-that's how long it takes each one to get
going or stop. There is a full complement of
microphone positions, from mono to full stereo
side placement, mics at the corner positions,
and more. You can control the distance, cutoff,
and gain of each mic, as well as adjust the
overall ambience.
What really sets PSP L'otary apart is its
mechanical noise. Most rotary plug-ins ignore
Part 2: Playing With Plug-ins
this, and if you have never worked with a real
rotary cabinet, you may not even be aware of.
Usually engineers do everything they can to
minimize and mask it in a mix, and yet it is an
intrinsic part of the rotary speaker experience,
and if it's not there, the emulation lacks authenticity. PSP even modeled the slight clattery wobble when the horn starts to speed up or slow
down! Over all it's a touch more regular than
some of the unpredictable and clanky rotary
cabinets I have miked over the years, but that's
just nitpicking... and it's not like I wanted a
clanky cabinet in the first place.
In use, PSP L'otary sounds great on vocals
for the "John Lennon in the Himalayas" effect
he loved on the Revolver album. You can add
it to guitar like Hendrix used to do, or be creative and add it to drums and percussion and
more. I suppose you could even use it on
organ tracks!
As an effect it is highly tweakable and
capable of seasick psychedelic panning, subtle background mono bubbling, and everything in between. It runs in two modes,
Brilliant and Low CPU. Even in Low CPU
mode it's very CPU hungry, one instance
using up to 25% of the available processing
power of my tricked-out quad i7 iMac, and in
Brilliant mode it ate up 50-60%. This is definitely a "use, render, and remove" plug-in if
you're working on a busy mix... but it's also,
hands down, the best rotary cabinet simulation I have ever used.-PV
http://www.pspaudioware.com
http://www.eventideaudio.com
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