tools4music: "Creme pur" – the Creme Reviewed
- 31.08.2017
- Tobias Schacht
- Creme
- Testbericht
Review in the print magazine tools4music, issue 3/2017 (June/July).
Review of the Creme by tools4music/Edition 3.2017A few quotes
Quickly create more pressure plus silvery treble without hissing? This works out. And all this considerably faster than using the EQ at the digital console. Long live direct access!
The Tegeler Creme prepares to redeem the masterbus of plug-ins ... At their expense are those who are looking for a real "Set and Forget" device for the studio or just love the subtle editing of a good mastering which ensures an amazing Aha effect regarding AB comparisons.
Here it is not drastic, but "creamy". Here, no new color is applied, but the existing color is refreshed. It is the work of a restorer who helps the work of the master to a new splendor, not the work of an artist who creates a new work.
With the Creme the FoH Engineer gets an excellent tool for sound painting on the stereo bus. It´s not about the correction of the FoH system, but the creative shaping of the stereo signal according to audio aesthetics.Issue 3/2017 was published by tools4music.de (in German; the former download link is no longer available).
What Makes the tools4music Review Special
tools4music writes for live and PA engineers – so the review looks at the Creme not only in the studio but on the stereo bus of a FoH system: quickly creating pressure and "silvery treble" without hissing, faster via direct access than on a digital console. The image of the restorer who "helps the work of the master to a new splendor" describes exactly what the Creme is built for: not a new colour, but refreshing the existing one.
What the Creme Is – and Why It Sits on the Mix Bus
The Creme is our bus compressor and mastering equalizer: a passive Pultec-style EQ and an SSL-style VCA bus compressor in one 2U unit. The order is switchable – EQ before the compressor or compressor before the EQ. On the mix bus the compressor pulls the separate parts into one whole, almost inaudibly at a 1.5:1 ratio, with a rhythmic signature of its own at higher ratios and faster timing; a side-chain filter keeps frequencies below 60 or 120 Hz out of the control circuit. The EQ offers a bass boost between 20 and 200 Hz and a high boost between 10 and 24 kHz, each 0–5 dB, every value on a rotary switch – which is why every setting is exactly reproducible. If you want plug-in recall, the Creme RC with motorized pots has it: Amazona.de reviews our Creme RC.
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