Maybe interesting at first but tiring after a while. There are lots of algo EQs that try to emulate hardware saturation, however many of those somehow sound fake to my ears. Excellent - however the Acqua EQs are still something else (for me). For example my EQ fallback is AirEQ which uses virtually no CPU and works in surround. It is important to have a good algo fallback for everything if CPU runs low. We'll see whether this has changed once Titanium comes out. Up to now Nebula was able to give the sound of hardware units but not exactly their behaviour. With compressors: We need to review that in a few weeks again. (But I have to say that when the EQ and tape thing is right I don't feel always the need for more console or preamp flavor, so I would care about EQ and tape first). However for consoles I mostly use Alessandro Boschi (AlexB) libraries for Nebula Pro. I have Waves consoles and tapes too, and several other consoles like Slate and Satson, however Nebula has a clear advantage still over them. Their site is a bit cluttered but the tape emulations are a labor of love. I reach to the cdsoundmaster products first. The other forte of Nebula/Acqua is saturation: Tape, preamps, consoles. I actually felt I did myself a favour in buying especially this one. For me the Amber is the one I would recommend to try first on orchestral music. Also, Nebula/Acqua plugins always introduce latency, so they are not suited for live mixing.Įvery of those EQs has a character and for one track the Magenta might be the bill, for the other one the Amber. Below you can see the CPU load on my i7 920 2.8 kHz. Magenta would be the equivalent to a Massive Passive, Amber the equivalent to an Avalon EQ. With constant improvement of the engine over the years and the introduction of the ACQUA engine (which means it sounds like Nebula but finally looks and feels like normal plugins with different EQ bands in one glance) I feel it is finally ready for prime time.Ĭurrently I have in my setup 5 Trinity EQs (one for each instrument bus) and alternatively 1 Magenta / 1 Amber in the master bus. The quality of Nebula EQs has always been extraordinary, however they lacked big time in terms of GUI, usability and they consumed smoking amounts of CPU.
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