REQ: Acustica Audio ACQUA Diamond Dynamic Saturator
INFO:
Studio DMI and Acustica Audio present the “Diamond Dynamic Saturator”.
The newest addition to the Diamond Series of plugins is the perfect emulation of the color and tone combinations of Luca Pretolesi's favorite hardware saturation units in a single plugin. The Diamond Dynamic Saturator is the brand new Acqua plugin (VST/VST3/AAX/AU) in the Diamond series, a powerful saturation product carefully designed for a fast audio mixing workflow based on our 'Hyper' Saturation technology.
Details
This high-performance plugin is the perfect choice for those seeking an innovative Saturator with a distinctive sound, ease of use and an analogue feel above all, perfectly comfortable anywhere in your mix and also suited for master bus applications.
Thanks to its special features, it aims to soon become a standard and a state-of-the-art tool for the pro-audio industry providing the most accurate digital representation of the Studio DMI signature sound, combining specific features of a number of hardware devices into a single, awesome product, capable of excellent performance and sound quality.
Key Features
Diamond Dynamic Saturator highlights functions such as
Dual saturation stage.
NEW ‘Hyper’ saturation tech.
High quality linear-phase filters.
Mid-side mode.
Expansion with 3 levels of density (bypass able).
High quality low-shelf filter (post saturation).
Diamond Dynamic Saturator’s best use is for drum and stereo bus processing and is inspired by working on Drake’s “Massive” and Diplo and Miguel’s “Don’t Forget My Love”.
In Luca Pretolesi'’s words:
"Dynamic Saturator was the last piece of the puzzle in the Diamond series of plugins. We've done EQ, we did compression limiting and the next step was saturation."
"Dynamic Saturator was heavily inspired by working on Drake's album "Honestly Nevermind". Working on the album we used a lot of analog saturation on the drum bus and the stereo bus using hardware and custom gear and from there, we created the plugin version."