The Trident 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 works of art equal to
those that were originally recorded on the A-Range . David Bowie's Ziggy
Stardust, Queen, Elton John, the list goes on...

The A-Range plug-in from Softube is the first and only native plug-in that
has been fully endorsed by original designer Malcolm Toft and Trident
Audio.

The plug-in is a model of a channel on one of the original 13 Trident A
-Range consoles. We chose to model channel 15 from the console at Sweet
Silence Studio 'B' in Denmark, producer Flemming Rasmussen's favorite
channel for recording lead vocals. Flemming also used it for the solo and
rhythm guitars on Metallica's "Ride The Lightning" and "Master of Puppets",
and Ritchie Blackmore's guitar on the Rainbow albums "Difficult to Cure"
and "Bent out of Shape".

The A-Range channel features four bands of equalization and high and low
pass filters. The sound of the bands is often referred to as "colorful" and
"musical". When running a hot enough signal through the original unit and
boosting the bands, it is possible to get it to distort, the result is a
hairy and effective saturation that is just right in some situations, and
just wrong in others!

"I am pleased to say that this is an incredibly accurate software
recreation of my original A-Range design."

Professor Malcolm Toft

Original designer of the A-Range console at Trident Audio Developments

In Short

Created together with original designer Malcolm Toft

Each and every component carefully modeled

Same sweet sounding EQ filters that made the original legendary

Interaction between the different bands, making this equalizer one of its
kind

Saturation control

Very CPU friendly

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Download File Size:11.28 MB

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