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- Page 2 Foreword by Malcolm Toft I have evaluated the Softube Trident A-Range equaliser plug-in at my studio with some very experienced recording engineers. After exhaustive listening tests with many different instruments and vocals, I am pleased to say that we all agree this is an incredibly accurate software recreation of my original A Range design from 1971.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Contact Details....................4 Support......................... 4 Installation and Authorization...............5 Introduction....................6 About the Trident A-Range.................. 7 User Interface....................8 Equalizer Bands....................9 Low Pass and High Pass Filters................10 Phase Invert....................... 11 Saturation......................11 Output Volume....................11 Key and Mouse Commands................12 Technical Side Notes...................13... -
Page 4: Contact Details
© 2010 SOFTUBE AB, SWEDEN. ALL PRODUCT AND COMPANY NAMES ARE TRADEMARKS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. SOFTUBE IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF SOFTUBE AB, SWEDEN. ALL VISUAL AND AURAL REFERENCES TO THE TRIDENT A-RANGE ARE TRADEMARKS BEING MADE WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM PMI AUDIO. THE TRIDENT, A-RANGE AND TRIANGLE LOGO ARE TRADEMARKS OF PMI AUDIO GROUP , USED UNDER LICENSE. -
Page 5: Installation And Authorization
Installation and Authorization you will have to register it in order to transfer the I F Y O U B O U G H T T H E P R O D U C T I N A B O X license to your iLok account: Go to http://www.softube.com/register to transfer the license to your iLok account. -
Page 6: Introduction
A-Range is a legendary piece of equipment. As only thirteen A-Range consoles were ever made, it remains a holy grail for sound engineers and producers around the world that hope to create equal works of art to those that were originally recorded on the A-Range –... -
Page 7: About The Trident A-Range
About the Trident A-Range The plug-in version of the A-Range is modeled after a channel on one of the original 13 Trident A-Range consoles. This particular channel strip is channel number 15 from Sweet Silence Studio 'B' in Denmark and was borrowed from Danish producer Flemming Rasmussen. -
Page 8: User Interface
User Interface The layout of the A-Range equalizer is simple and easy. You have four different bands of equalization, with a frequency selector knob and a gain fader each. Low and High Pass filters can be activated by pressing the off-white buttons, and a handy Phase Invert switch is found on the right side of the panel. -
Page 9: Equalizer Bands
Low Mid Band is set to zero, changing the frequency of that band will affect the frequency response of the High Mid Band filter significantly. The results are quite unpredictable and this is part of the reason for the unusual sound of the A-Range! -
Page 10: Low Pass And High Pass Filters
Low Mid Band The Low Mid Band is of bell type with the following center frequencies: 2 kHz, 1 kHz, 500 Hz and 250 Hz. Low Shelving Band The frequency options for the Low Shelving Band are Low mid band (top) and the 150 Hz, 100 Hz, 80 Hz and 50 Hz. -
Page 11: Phase Invert
The Phase button inverts the phase when pressed (as seen in the picture). Saturation The Saturation or distortion of the A-Range is placed after the equalizer bands and is depending on the gain settings of the bands. A louder or “hotter” signal will make the unit... -
Page 12: Key And Mouse Commands
Key and Mouse Commands All labels (such as the dB or frequency labels) are clickable. This allows you to easy select a setting by clicking on the wanted value. Hovering above a label will turn the mouse pointer into a pointing hand. Mouse •... -
Page 13: Technical Side Notes
Enabling the plug-in in recording mode (Pro Tools|HD 7 or higher): • Insert a TDM plug-in (such as the “Trim” plug-in) on your track. • Insert the Trident A-Range plug-in as RTAS on an insert slot after the TDM plug-in. Please see your Pro Tools reference guide for more info. -
Page 14: Buying Recommendations
Buying Recommendations We always make buying recommendations in our manuals for a hardware equivalent of the plug-in. In this case, it's really simple and really hard – If you can find an A-Range channel and can afford it, get it! This is a photo of channel 15 and 18 from one of the original Trident A consoles. -
Page 15: System Requirements
System Requirements Supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz, in both mono and stereo. All native versions • Mac OS 10.4 (or higher) on a G4 or Intel CPU (or higher) • Windows XP (or higher) on a PIII CPU (or higher) •... - Page 16 Trident A-Range plug-in was made by: Niklas Odelholm – modeling, Oscar Öberg – DSP programming and modeling. Torsten Gatu – framework programming. Arvid Rosén – framework programming. Ulf Ekelöf – 3D rendering. Original hardware was designed by Malcolm Toft and Barry Porter at Trident Audio Developments. The original unit is owned by Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios.
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