


The biggest companies officially license the rights to emulate the original gear, there is evidently enough people desperate to reintroduce analogue texture back into their music that the emulation game is now big business, companies like UAD, Waves and Slate Digital are arguably the big players leading the way, but something very interesting is now starting to happen…. If you’re reading this then you’ll doubtless already know of the multitude of emulation plugins that offer analogue mojo in the virtual world…
KUSH AUDIO PUSHER NOT SHOWING UP IN LOGIC PATCH
My good friend Fritz has had some of these modules lurking in his “One day i’ll get these racked up and working” box forever… But the know how, maintenance and patch bay drama is making less and less people use hardware anymore, let alone the rarer more exotic pieces of gear… The times may have changed but the quest for the sound remains.

TAB Telefunken, Seimens, Neumann and Filtek all had similar looking format modules, compressors, limiters, eq’s, built to meet the exacting standards of pristine audio that broadcast demands… In the UK it was the likes of Neve and Calrec that provided the level of quality required in the broadcasting field, so you can already get the picture that the hardware being modelled here was absolutely top notch… The U73b started life as a grey metal box, a cassette style module, broadcast gear from Germany and Eastern Europe. this is a really nice piece of kit, a curious bit of vintage boutique audio brought back to life to provide us with a beautiful tone that so many of us have grown up with and had imparted deep into our subconscious from listening to the countless classic records mastered through these processors… At the end of the press release for this plugin the developers assure the reader that “We’re sure you’ll like what you hear!”
