MusicTech: The Ultimate Mixbus Tool? (Creme Review)

• 25.06.2018
• Victor Weiss
• Creme
• Review

MusicTech's Mike Hillier has reviewed the Creme.

Review from April 2018, awarded the "MT Choice" badge.

Here a few quotes:

[...] the Creme produces some incredibly aggressive squash that makes for an excellent parallel drum chain, and that’s before we’ve even begun to explore the EQ side of the circuit.

By including both a passive ‘Pultec style’ EQ and a VCA ‘SSL style’ compressor, the Tegeler Creme gives you pretty much everything that you need across the mixbus in one excellent, extremely well-built package.

With the Creme across our master bus with EQ and compression in place, mixes started to come together quicker.

The Creme is a fantastic and inexpensive bus-processing tool. If you’re looking for a first hardware unit for your studio, or want to add to your collection, this deserves to make your shortlist.

More Excerpts from the Review

"Overall, the Crème did sound a touch more hi-fi and less edgy." – Mike Hillier, MusicTech, April 2018

"Used in this way, the Crème is a perfect companion for any studio, no matter how large or small, and because all the controls are on either rotary switches or notched potentiometers, recall is incredibly easy." – Mike Hillier, MusicTech, April 2018

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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