Product Review - AnaMod ATS1 : July 2009
information ATS1 with standard card installation £3450; A351 card £339; 102 card £362; Scotch 111 card £TBA. Prices include VAT.KMR +44 (0)20 8445 2446. ATS1 with standard card installation $2995; A351 card $299; 102 card $329; Scotch 111 card price tba.AnaMod +1 201 728 8490. November 2009
| Product Review - AnaMod ATS1Article Preview :: Analogue Tape Recorder SimulatorPublished in SOS July 2009 Reviews : Software: Effects+Processors Some say that nothing does analogue tape like analogue tape does, but AnaMod think they’re wrong — and are doing a pretty good job of proving it!
Emulation of analogue tape recorders, using synthesis, modelling or convolution technologies, has been with us for quite some time. Many DAWs include quite effective tape-emulation plug-ins, and third-party ones are also available. There have also been a few hardware analogue-tape simulators, one of the most impressive to date being Rupert Neve Designs’ Portico, which uses inductive circuitry to recreate the complex magnetic non-linearities associated with tape recording. The AnaMod ATS1 is a new and impressive hardware device, which takes an entirely novel, or even radical, approach. AnaMod was founded only three years ago by Dave Amels (previous co-founder of the Bomb Factory Digital, Amels Audio, Voce, and Diversi Organs) and Greg Gualtieri (also the president of Pendulum Audio). Their product range is fairly limited, but already includes compressors based on the Fairchild 670 and 660 vari-mu designs, an equaliser based on the API 500-series EPQ1A, and the ATS1 tape-recorder emulator, reviewed here. The fundamental ethos of their venture is to take a mathematical modelling approach to the design of their analogue equipment — a technique developed by Amels in many of the digital plug-ins he created at the Bomb Factory (and, interestingly, Digidesign’s Reel Tape plug-in). However, whereas all of those software plug-ins applied the technique within the digital computational domain, in the AnaMod products they’re applied entirely in the analogue domain, using, essentially, rather more ‘traditional’ analogue computing techniques (based in part on the use of four-quadrant multipliers and other non-linear analogue design techniques) to build the various signal-processing elements of complex analogue circuitry. Analogue ‘computing’ of this kind certainly isn’t a new technology, but it’s not one you find very often in audio equipment, and it is an innovative approach. Being entirely analogue, there is no latency to worry about, and no A-D and D-A conversions either. Overview ...
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