In love with new Prime Studio plugins: CHARLESTON, DELADY, FUNKENSCHLAG and SOLID
They are piece of art each of them. Apart from kinda semi-sterile Acqua plugins, they capable to be pushed to fat analog overdrive zone (this kind of rich saturated sound i hear only in Crimson acqua before)
CHARLESTON
is a big brother of Charly Limited, which is modified tube summing gear combined with tube saturator, ohh it's capable of so much fire with two overdrive stages! + Two shelves to smooth your audio.. So much juice, good even for master bus, works like Crimson (Vertigo) to widely warm up on the edge of distortion.
DELADY
is not just a delay, it's delay on steroids, where feedback stage combined with tube saturator, and you can really get your delay HOT and ear-melted. So yummy one. Moreover, i find out you able to switch off delay stage and use this baby as tube saturator! Just switch on the Evil and Pre and switch off Delay switches as shown at picture, and use the Output Gain knob to overdrive output stage ... Prepare to be floored)
FUNKENSCHLAG
is a classy 50's vintage German gear combo all in one plugin: 1) Preamp (capable of good amount of saturation!) with two highly usable cut filters (slightly resonant at thoughtful stepped points); 2) vintage compressor with fast attack and slow configurable release; 3) very cool 6-band graphic EQ with rich broad bells and warm vintage sound.
It's a perfect mastering deck for any genre (immortal vintage gear). Just tested on modern future house and it shines unlike anything else !
SOLID
A classic 4K bus comp on steroids. Main feature is a saturator built in GR stage of compressor (most left knob at plugin interface) which has two modes of overdrive: light and heavy. Very punchy and tightly sounding machine.
RESUME
Overall PS plugins are pretty heavy on CPU, bit laggy interface but full of harmonics, rich and fat sounding, and what acquas missing - capable to be pushed hard! Often overlooked, but i highly recommend to give them a try!