MusicRadar Reviews the VTRC: "Fat and Warm"
- 07.03.2016
- Michael Krusch
- Review
- VTRC
Find the complete test here: http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/tech/tegeler-audio-vari-tube-recording-channel-634832
What MusicRadar Writes About the VTRC
Stuart Bruce reviewed the VTRC for MusicRadar (Future Music) in February 2016:
"The low-end is solid and precise with a real valve warmth." – Stuart Bruce, MusicRadar, February 2016
"From a bit of subtle levelling to some really heavy compression, its characteristic is fat and warm." – Stuart Bruce, MusicRadar, February 2016
"The VTRC-1 is a great channel strip at a sensible price. If you are in the market for one and you like the sound of valves it's well worth checking out." – Stuart Bruce, MusicRadar, February 2016
The reviewer particularly liked the VTRC on electric guitar, especially with the compressor timing set to "Auto" – and the Gain control, which pushes the valves harder and fattens things up.
What the Vari Tube Recording Channel Is
The Vari Tube Recording Channel (VTRC) is our tube channel strip: microphone preamp, passive equalizer and compressor in one 3U unit. The preamp – with input transformer, true 48 V phantom power and a high-impedance instrument input – can be shifted in character from clean and direct to fat and vintage via the gain control. The passive Pultec-style EQ offers a low-cut (80/160 Hz), a low-mid boost, a mid cut and a high boost up to 24 kHz. The two compressors – an opto compressor with a light-sensitive resistor and a vari-tube compressor built on the vari-mu principle – can be used individually or together; the order of EQ and compressor is switchable, the EQ can be placed in the compressor's side chain, and a line input with its own transformer lets you process already recorded tracks after the fact. Two VTRCs can be linked for stereo. More reviews: Amazona.de (V2, 2015), Amazona.de (V1, 2012).
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Related: Sound On Sound: VTRC Review (Valve Channel Strip) · Delamar.de Reviews the VTRC: 5 out of 5 · Jake Roeder: VTRC, "Best Strip I've Ever Used"
