Get Acustica Audio Black for FREE

No strings attached is the Acustica Audio motto when offering free plugins, and they do it a lot. This time, the new FREE plugin bundle ‘Black‘ can be downloaded by anyone wanting an authentic analog sound recreation through gain staging and preamp emulations.

Consisting of 2 gain-staging players, Black is an Acqua plugin bundle focusing on quality and ease of use. But its real secret sauce is in the accompanied preamp emulations, of which the additional ‘Volumes’, including modern, vintage, discontinued, custom and existing hardware emulations can be separately purchased.

With Black ‘Volume A’, you have 10 preamp emulations at your disposal:

1) Big Ceil – Ivy 828
2) Brown – Cade BC-7A
3) Camel – Flax Lily
4) Cobalt – Lombardy Poplar 1
5) Coffee – Arabica
6) Navy – Germanium
7) Pimelea White Solitaire
8) Taupe – Starwort 3200
9) Taupe – Starwort GP1
10) Taupe – Swiss Chard 69

Black ‘Volume B’ includes 10 additional emulations of both vintage and modern consoles:

1) Aubrieta 024
2) Blond – Azalea NT-83
3) Cobalt – Lombardy Poplar 2
4) Honey – Liverwort
5) Phormium Joker
6) Pink – Jasmine 08
7) Rain Lily LN2
8) Taupe – Japanese Tea 3
9) Taupe – Japanese Tea M208
10) Taupe – Tulip 636

All of these are ran through an attractive and effective user interface, built to meticulously bring out that vintage sound and so-called ‘non-linearity’ everyone is these days looking for, at sample rates from 44.1kHz to 96kHz.

To use this vintagey gain-staging bundle, you must create a user account if not already, and download Aquarius for either windows or macOS. From there you can download Black in either VST, VST3, AU or AAX plugin format.

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On a final note and as per usual from Acustica Audio, these plugins are not the lightest on CPU, but quality-wise well worth using, especially when offered for FREE!