Softube Trident A-Range (Native)

The A-Range plug-in from Softube is the first and only native and TDM plug-in that has been fully endorsed by original designer Malcolm Toft and Trident Audio.

The plug-in is a model of a channel on one of the original 13 Trident A-Range consoles. We chose to model channel 15 from the console at Sweet Silence Studio 'B' in Denmark, producer Flemming Rasmussen's favorite channel for recording lead vocals. Flemming also used it for the solo and rhythm guitars on Metallica's "Ride The Lightning" and "Master of Puppets", and Ritchie Blackmore's guitar on the Rainbow albums "Difficult to Cure" and "Bent out of Shape".

The A-Range channel features four bands of equalization and high and low pass filters. The sound of the bands is often referred to as "colorful" and "musical". When running a hot enough signal through the original unit and boosting the bands, it is possible to get it to distort, the result is a hairy and effective saturation that is just right in some situations, and just wrong in others!

"When I tried the Softube Trident A-Range equaliser plug-in for the first time, a big smile came upon my face. It was just like getting my desk back again. It sounds exactly as I'm used to hearing the eq."

Flemming Rasmussen
 - Producer, Mixer, Engineer
 (Metallica, Morbid Angel, Blind Guardian etc.)

In Short

Created together with original designer Malcolm Toft

Each and every component carefully modeled

Same sweet sounding EQ filters that made the original legendary

Interaction between the different bands, making this equalizer one of its kind

Saturation control

Very CPU friendly

"I am pleased to say that this is an incredibly accurate software recreation of my original A-Range design."

Professor Malcolm Toft
 - Original designer of the A-Range console at Trident Audio Developments

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