Radiant is characterized by a more aggressive compression curve.

Iridescent has a similar magnetic character, but with a fatter bottom and midrange. (This flavor is the most similar to the tape knob on HEDD-192.).

Luminescent is the most neutral sounding process of the five.

The Phoenix II contains five different flavors The output trim control is for level matching and has a range of plus 6db to minus 6 db. When the input trim and output trim controls are at 0dB, (no change in gain) and no tape process is being added to the sound, the plug-in is bit accurate, meaning the output exactly matches the input. This can be useful on material that is hitting close to or at digital zero and on material that has a low recorded level.

The input trim can also be used to prevent clipping in the rare cases where clipping may be a problem and bringing up the level of a track for an increased amount of color. A level control determines the amount of the Phoenix II process integrated into the audio signal, and an input trim determines “how hard you hit the tape.” Because the DSP process is level dependent, the input level trim control has been improved and an output trim control has been added. Gold is the position where the color is approximately flat in frequency response, with Sapphire being a brighter, and Opal being a warmer tonality. Phoenix II has five different tape-analog characteristics, Plug-in type is selected with a switch for easy comparison between the types, and the brightness is also selected with a switch. Phoenix II is a ground-up application derived from HEDD technology, and specifically engineered and optimized for Avid’s PT 10 architecture. The Phoenix II process not only incorporates the nonlinear saturation characteristics created by magnetic tape itself, but also includes the interrelation of an analog tape recorder’s record/reproduce electronics and equalization curves. His intimate knowledge of analog electronics, as well as decades of experience as a recording engineer has spawned a very useful, musical suite of plug-ins. It runs at all sample rates, 44.1K to 192K.ĭesigner Dave Hill has crafted this software with the same attention to detail he used to create the electronics for ATR Service’s much heralded “Aria” discrete tape recorders.

Phoenix II -uses 32 bit floating point math and has a lower noise floor than the original release. Phoenix II runs both NATIVE and DSP on Avid’s PT 10 AAX format. Phoenix II is an update of Crane Song’s suite of TDM plug-ins designed to emulate the unique properties of a magnetic tape machine.

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