SPL® TwinTube Processor
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Easily add warm tube saturation, harmonics, and presence to your sources.
Professional mix engineers have long employed the SPL TwinTube hardware for its ability to make vocals and instruments pop, emphasizing select harmonics to add presence and dimension without impacting dynamic range. The SPL TwinTube Processor plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces brings the distinctive features, sound, and character of the the original high-end SPL hardware directly to your DAW.
The SPL TwinTube Processor plug-in expertly combines two essential tube effects, Saturation and Harmonics, in a single processor. Its designed as two fully independent stages — which can be run together or separately — each providing its own unique character. The result is an exceptionally wide-ranging palette of sonic shaping, from smooth and creamy overdrive to deep, growling saturation, with a range of harmonic overtones to add warmth.Boost presence and spatial imaging without increasing overall dynamic range
Add analog tube warmth, saturation, and rich harmonics to instruments and vocals
Easily beef up soft synths while adding air and imaging
Shape and define signals way beyond traditional EQ and compression
Customer Reviews
T. Urban
November 30, 2015
I didn't need it, but I still bought it!
This is one of those plugins that I really feel I already had all the tools to achieve the same sound. However, its simplicity led to me making the purchase. On a guitar track, I can add...
Read MoreJ. Ko
August 3, 2015
Must Have Item
The Plug-In works awesome on vocals and drums! i love it
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June 14, 2015
Eq? - no!
Fantastic plugin! I had troubles, getting my material fresh, but not aggressive or harsh. This is the solution. Very often I don´t even need an eq to bring in presence. It´s really just...
Read MoreA. Weiss
January 17, 2015
Give the sound a real touch of highly quality preamp
I had a vocal line which I wished to enhance it to cut through the mix, but without distort its nature timbre or add an extra air. This is the plugin for that kind of a job. It just put...
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Key Features
Authentic plug-in version of the world-class SPL TwinTube tube effects processor
Adds analog tube warmth, saturation and harmonic distortion to instruments and vocals
Boosts presence and spatial imaging without increasing overall dynamic range
Easy, intuitive interface and simple workflow
Developed for the UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform by SPL
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Customer Reviews
SPL® TwinTube Processor
T. Urban
I didn't need it, but I still bought it!
This is one of those plugins that I really feel I already had all the tools to achieve the same sound. However, its simplicity led to me making the purchase. On a guitar track, I can add a little harmonic distortion and find the right frequency to bring out picking, crunch, or overtones. It is easier than an eq, though it has many similarities. I wouldn't make this my first UAD purchase, but would definitely look at it if you already have a few great eqs and tone shaping plugs. FYI, I have a short tutorial demoing the UAD vs Native versions:
https://youtu.be/OCRls6N1hIUJ. Ko
Must Have Item
The Plug-In works awesome on vocals and drums! i love it
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Eq? - no!
Fantastic plugin! I had troubles, getting my material fresh, but not aggressive or harsh. This is the solution. Very often I don´t even need an eq to bring in presence. It´s really just turning the upper knob to taste, and I´m done. I also love the saturation to warm things up. It can also give you nice breakup when wanted. It´s easy, to get material right in front of your nose!
Makes my vocals shine. Love it on acoustic guitar.B. Chylewski
plug in
This is a very good plug in
D. Morgan
SPL on Logic X
Excellente for Make Noize and saturante Music
A. Weiss
Give the sound a real touch of highly quality preamp
I had a vocal line which I wished to enhance it to cut through the mix, but without distort its nature timbre or add an extra air. This is the plugin for that kind of a job.
It just put extra volume to the line, keeping its nature timbre.M. Haga
one of the must items
It is one of the most effective plugins for polishing my sounds, which vitaminizes their presences. Very good!!
T. Friesecke
Nice!
The Plug-In works awesome on vocals! i love it....
R. Olivier
The harmonic control
The SPL Twin Tube Processor is gives a very precise control of the harmonic enrichment for a mix or mastering. It avoids calibration errors in the insertion of a hardware and instantly found its settings.
R. Olivier
The harmonic control
Le SPL Twin Tube Processor est donne un contrôle très précis de l'enrichissement harmonique pour un mix ou un mastering . On évite les érreurs de calibration à l'insertion d'un hardware et on retrouve instantanément ses réglages.
Y. Hsu
Amazing Air
Air arounds is all vibrating
and vibrating my ears, my breatheC. Hoyer
Awesome character
This is one of my favorite plug-ins. The double tube emulation does wonders for weak or thin sounds. A great use for this one is to beef up VSTi synth leads that need a bit of body, and to remove that "digital" sound in the top end by giving it a bit of saturation and moving the focal point down out of the top end and into the mid/high range with the harmonics. Instantly sounds more "real".
The only downside I can think of is that I wish there was more of a color difference between the different harmonic frequency settings, but that's not enough by far to knock a star off my review. Full marks.K. Wayte
The handy magic touch
I picked up this plugin with the intention of using it for that "magic touch" of tube sound when I wanted it. Sure, you can try to use some of the old preamp plugins to attempt this, but I found them too subtle in the cases where I wanted that real fine rasp and those airy harmonics to be more obvious. The TTP not only does it perfectly, but it has the range of barely-there-subtle to outright overdriven. The complete control over frequency sweet spot, harmonics, and saturation, not only make it brain dead easy - but fast. You'll find you'll get what you want within seconds. It's like adding the perfect sauce on your already perfect steak.
J. Van
Best for mixing to add nice shine an compression
I Love this Plugin. I use a Lot , for Vocals and many instruments.
It has the overtone shine that i often Miss in recorded Tracks.
The saturation is Smoothie to crisp and very usefull to gifte the sound more
In the Face sound without making compression. Very nice Thanks uad.D. Pearson
SPL Twin Tube Processor
Simple, eazy to use way to get high quality tube saturation and harmonic colorization. I've gotten terrific results using it on vocals and a number of instruments. Especially bass and strings, but also have found it really dresses up in the box versions of analog synths. Doesn't add gain so it's easy to throw in at any stage in the recording/mixing process without being sidetracked from your project by having to reset levels.
P. Ross
Awesome Powered Plugin!!!
I have most of UA plugins along with an Apollo 16 and a PCIe card. I am a faithful customer because everything they put out is by far the best on the market. This SPL TwinTube Processor is very responsive to things that tend to need more compression. I love it on vocals, pianos and acoustic guitars just to name a few.
H. Fadel
the perfect saturator
This plugin brings beautiful saturation and frequency specific harmonics to your tracks. I specially like it on vocal, kick, and bass tracks that need that extra grunge or "dirt." Check it out for yourself!
D. Moon
Super duper
this can be used on just about anything!!!! i mainly use it for vocals or electric guitar when I'm having trouble getting it to cut through the mix.
F. Minoia
Easy and powerful
SPL plugin is really great. Easy to use and useful (for me) on any instrument or voice. Great harmonics made ??from it. Highest mark.
Q. Matt
SPL TwinTube
Perfect. Exactly what I expected. Just a little bit greedy in processing (7%). But worth it.