module-london

London is inspired by some vintage tube circuits originating from Europe. The sound is big, warm and bold in the lows and low mids, and slightly smooth in the top end. The transient response has a subtle thickness to it without being overly aggressive. London sounds amazing for fattening up tracks in preamp mode, or thickening things up with it’s preamp saturation, and can add fat analog body in Console mode on the whole mix.

VU Meter

The VU Meter displays the RMS level of the signal at the Output of the module, i.e., after the Mix.

The meter is calibrated to display 0VU when being fed by a 1kHz sine wave with a peak level of -18dBFS by default.

You can recalibrate this level by adjusting the screw below.1

Clipping Bulb

The Bulb indicates the amount of clipping applied to the input signal. It will begin to light up at the first point of clipping and glow even brighter as the input level or Saturation is increased.

Mode (Preamp/Console)

This chooses which algorithm is selected in each VTC module. Preamp models a tube preamp circuit, and therefore the saturation will emulate cranking the input amplifier while attenuating an output trim. In Console mode, the module emulates a tube summing circuit including unique crosstalk and saturation properties.

Color (Normal/Push)

In Normal mode, the Module recreates realistic properties of the studied tube circuits. Push amplifies these nonlinearities to add even more expression, color, and vibe.

Saturation

In Preamp Mode, this will emulate the tone of preamp saturation. For most audio sources, this will be more subtle up to 12 o’clock, and then start to get more severe, likely ending up in rich tube distortion. In Console Mode, the saturation replicates mix buss overdrive (such as when you push faders hot into the master section of the console), so it is more forgiving and can add a thick, glued, colorful tone when pushed.

High Pass Filter

When used as a preamp to enhance the tone of clean preamps, the 6db/oct hi pass can clean up low rumble if needed.

Output Gain

Controls the output level of the processor.

Example Uses

  • Use Preamp with Push across tracks to add vibe and color and remove digital cleanliness.

  • Use Console as first insert on mixbuss with a bit of saturation to add weight, glue, and analog color to the whole mix.

  • Use Preamp or Console saturation on drums, vocals, guitar, keys.

  • Use Preamp distortion with mix knob to add thickness and warmth to tracks like vocals, snare, toms, drum buss, or even whole mix.

  • Use Console saturation in mastering chain to reduce peaks in a warm and punchy way.

  1. The meter calibration is a shared setting affecting all Output VU Meters of VMR Modules. ↩