REQ: Acustica Audio Teal
Your palette of tube saturation tones
Teal is designed to satisfy the demand for a specialized tube saturation tool, representing the perfect colorbox without compromises. It is an essential addition to the Acqua plugin suite, focused solely on delivering high-quality tube saturation to enrich and color your audio tracks. With Teal, even though Acustica's Acqua plugin suites already feature tube saturation effects, we’ve taken a focused approach to specialize exclusively on this one sonic element. Our aim is to deliver subtle tonal nuances that we haven’t been able to achieve with our previous plugins. Try it and hear the difference for yourself.
Key Features
8 distinct saturation modes from 5 different tube units: delivers a wide range of saturation profiles, combining saturation and preamp stages to emulate the warmth and harmonic richness of vintage tube hardware.
Pre/Post saturation EQ & filters: includes fixed emphasis and de-emphasis EQ stages, along with high/low-shelf Baxandall filters and variable high-pass/low-pass filters for precise tonal shaping and frequency control.
Auto gain compensation: maintains consistent output levels when adjusting saturation drive.
User-friendly interface: streamlined design for fast and efficient sound shaping.
Listening modes (Δ, LR, M, S): provide advanced monitoring for isolating different components during editing.
Cross-platform compatibility: available in VST, VST3, AAX, and AU formats.
The right saturation for every track
Teal offers a flexible, powerful approach to adding tube saturation to your audio projects. It provides eight emulations, each delivering a different flavor of saturation, from subtle warmth to aggressive distortion, suitable for a variety of musical styles and production needs. It delivers a full palette of tube saturation effects, from subtle harmonic enhancement to full-on distortion, making it an essential tool for any producer or engineer looking to add depth and analog warmth to their tracks.