I really appreciate the frequent sales. I prefer to avoid subscriptions and build my collection one by one. Thanks for looking out for customers like me!

The 5 to 7k on this plugin is PURE MAGIC

Excellent chat guys, good to hear Dirk talk this through

This plugin gives huge huge sound if used properly. Will definitely try it for my next song. The stereo widening tool in amek gives the best stereo I heard so far

It's just sooo enjoyable and informative when interviewee AND interviewer are as knowledgable as these 2 gentlemen. VERY happy Mix & Master Bundle user here by the way :-).

Much respect to Dirk hard work and great prices ...the new era we only need a P.A midi Control to Fell and We all in heaven

Very beautiful low end sound..very punchy, and by the way the interview rocks.. justin nailed it...

Much respect to Dirk because he could have had any DAW on his laptop to release his New Plugin and to sit in front of the Real Console and to show everybody that his using Reaper!!!!!!! as the DAW to A/B between the Console and the Plugin is such is another Great step for Reaper. BIG UP to Dirk and Plugin Alliance for keeping it REAL!!!!

The look and sound of that console is out of this world - to die for!

I got it on the 29 sale and I am blown away by the sound ! This thing is a real gem !

Yes the mega bundle subscription is amazing ! Poking around and finding so many gems that right one for a situation. This Amek 9099 sounds amazing I have used it with just with the eq and am amazed at how it fixed my mix!

Excellent interview. What a fantastic plugin :)

Wonderful chat! Thank you for all of your hard work Dirk! You are producing really awesome plugins! Nowadays cannot live without using PA plugins in my mixes.

Brilliant, loving the mix and master sub, always getting new goodies. Was floored by the Focusrite now can’t wait to try the Amek! Eloquently chaperoned by Justin as always.

Great interview! I must say this plugin is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Well done!

MY FAVORITE !!

One of my favorite channel strips, and it's the plugin that turned me on to PluginAlliance. The Forever29 deal is awesome, sort of like a plugin-of-the-month club!

Great sounding plug-in! Recently purchased. Has it’s own sound, AMAZING! Congratulation 🥳

Love that you use Reaper Dirk, best DAW ever!

It’s was awesome!🎹🎹👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Now having and working with the 9099, I can definitely say it would be a huge revitalization of the previous console plugins to update them with a few of the features that the 9099 has. Particularly the listening frequency alt-click and the widener, it feels like it would be worth it to pay for an upgrade and do a v2 of some of these. They really add a lot to the speed of the workflow of using channel strips where they make sense in a mix.

Been waiting on this! Exciting. Can't wait to try it out!

I have all of the bx console emulations. I’ve gotten so accustomed to using them that I can’t imagine working without them.

Great Interview

This is a hypersonic Chanel strip. I’m a UAD user recently fully converted to PA.

you guys rock our world

Wish PA would add the mono maker/ width on other consoles.

Amazing work Dirk, I'm using the plugin since yesterday eve, it sounds great, that sheen and glowing buttons are big plusses. For certain genres, I wouldn't use this on rock, it's too clean for that. Sometimes I used the Focusrite SC for brightness, but that one will be replaced now. Normally I use the same high end wav files, just opening the plugin, made me like, wow. I use for a time the BX-EQ_2098 with full pleasure, this has also the sheen and Glow possibility. Premium tools.

i learned how to work big consoles on the 9098i's at my recording school. the virtual dynamics also show up on other amek consoles like the media 51 console (a very underrated board that had some neve involvement) i always thought that it was controlling the fader vca's.

Dirk 🏆🎯 bx_dirkbestpluginsever

That’s really interesting to hear about the gate. That was one of the first things that jumped out at me - the gate is fantastic!!

Such a fantastic plugin..

I just love PA

Just Bought

Do the BX consoles model the distortion from each console? Or is the THD just an arbitrary flavor of THD added in for color? If we were to use each strip zeroed out, and just add THD from the selector, is it the same THD in all the plugins?

D/A Converter on every channel on a console or a single converter at sum makes maybe the difference in quality. TMT is quite innovative to bring that back byside analog saturation to digital but is also brilliant on mono material as well. Just an engineering reminder for using the unlink option on a final compressor / limiter to let the tmt stereo shine, the differences between the left and right channel are sounding naturally because physically a sound source is either located more left or right and tmt focusing on it could just relax the brain to compensate for that abstraction but not perceived as a sustained sound only at some points in the spectrum. Maybe with the lookahead to keep that phase changes minimal as the mixdown will be squashed by final limiters and maximisers, which changes the image anyway. It shapes the spectrum but in a very pleasant way. It is something different than panning it happens internally with the timbre of the sound. It is hard to explain but there is still a difference between panning/timbre/ambience and actually the minimal phase signature of when the difference happens. More than panning it happens when the sound happens but other than panning the difference is located at the phase on either left or right channel. It is is very difficult to locate the correct phase where it 'sounds good' when there is a constant stream of audio. It is important that it happens to the body of the sound and not the attack initial transient because it is better to leave that part which is quite important for dance/EDM genres or a rolling psy trance baseline as example. (the linear phase is important to shape the sound, but quite looses its importance in coloring the sound with phase/dispersion/saturation.) with a thin layer of thd to bring up the nuances of a hard worked eq ed low end to earphones which are almost unheard otherwise brings up the craft to bass / drums heavy music. It is quite important to have a less dynamic low end, not just low-shelf Ing it. phase or tmt nuances just make sense above 500 Hz that is also where the meat lies (500 - 5000 Hz) and vocal and lead sounds base and compression is applied to reduce the dynamic range just below the the bell curve of drum separation somewhere between 200 - 300 Hz. Compressors bring up the ambience which is sealed within a sound it is a very creative effect to bring that back as a proximity effect. That ambience is less like the fast forward in your face, it is more like opto /feedback compression ambience and fatness as this kind of dynamic processor looks for its output.

Informative

How's that JZ mic Justin? Sounds great here... Can't wait to try out the new Amek Dirk.

Thx for sharing! And that mic you’re using…. What is that? A whole new concept of “neve”… which I first learned about from my Symphony Desktop and Antelope 🎙

Dirk says he likes the preamp of this console (see around 1:53) yet he doesn’t give us the ability to use the preamp… Please on the next console give us the ability to use the preamps both just as a saturation tool and as a proper preamp (similar to the Waves 1073 Scheps plugin)

This Amek was considered by many top engineers to be the best Neve ever made😁. But this console suffered a major design flaw as it was overheating to the point of failure. We had one in our Montreal National broadcast station recording studio and 2 of my fellow engineers friends who work there told me they had to strip it down and actually run an air conditioning conduit inside the console.😁. And this console was full time maintenance. But...Great sounding console and very flexible. I just wonder in our age of " digital workflow " if a reproduction of the ancient 😏 process of turning tons of knobs with a mouse and not having the option to use the now common graphic representation of Eq spectrum or compressor or gate visual thresholds is the way to go. I still work with our API LegacyPlus 48 with lots of gear. But I cannot mix with that stuff anymore. My clients want instant " 1 dB more on the voice at 3:22 and less reverb on the puch at 2:34 and more bass when the snare hits on the words " Come on !" ... And you all know the drill. I am sure that these Amek plugins sound great. I am not sure about keeping its presentation and knobs turning old fashion way for controlling the parameters. But that is me...😏

I hope it supports pro tool carbon DSP mode💫

please build dedicated hardware controller for bx console 🕺

Dirk we now have so many TMT modeled channel strips how about now producing a MIDI controller like SSL UC1 (less the buss compressor) so we can stop using the mouse and looking at the screen. Many of your modeled plug-ins have similar layout so they can be operated by one controller. SSL have shown how it can be done… Please give us a controller 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽👍🏽