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Slate Digital RC-‐Tube VII. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & INSTALLATION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PC Requirements • Hardware: any Intel or AMD processor with SSE2 support, 1 GB RAM, iLok2. • Operating System: Windows® XP, Windows Vista® (32/64 Bit), Windows 7® (32/64 Bit) Mac Requirements • Hardware: Mac with Intel processor, 1 GB of RAM, iLok2. • Operating System: Mac OS® X 10.5 or later INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS iLok License Downloading • Before downloading the iLok license for VCC make sure you have installed the latest iLok drivers for your system. You can download the latest installers here: o iLok drivers for Mac OS: http://sw.ilok.com/macextsx.dmg o iLok drivers for Windows: http://sw.ilok.com/DriverSetup.exe In order to download your iLok license to your iLok 2 dongle, please visit the link that was given to you in your email receipt and enter the required info including the issued pass code. This will unlock your iLok redemption code. Use this code via your iLok account's "Redeem License Code". Enter the iLok code, and then download the license on your iLok 2 dongle. Installing the RC-‐Tube Plugin Click on the INSTALL icon. Choose your designated VST, AU, or RTAS folder (usually the default location that the installer insists will be best). If you are installing the 64bit VST version of RC-‐Tube on Windows, you MUST specify your designated VST folder. Otherwise, the installer will overwrite the 32bit version with the 64bit version. 3RD PARTY ILOK LICENSE TRANSFER FEE When reselling any Slate software product, there will be a $30 License Transfer Fee in order for us to process the new customer into our USER system. It is the responsibility of the seller to inform the buyer of this fee at the time of sale. 10
Slate Digital RC-‐Tube VIII. CONCLUSION MAKING THE RC-‐TUBE By Steven Slate The VCC RC-‐Tube is an emulation modeled after a classic RCA Broadcast Tube Console i , the BC-‐6B. The BC-‐6B was a stereo console with 9 faders and 22 inputs. It was very challenging to model this console, because first we had to find one that worked. While I scoured the country trying to find someone with a working model, Fabrice started to build some algorithms based on the schematic. But in order to truly recreate the sound of this classic tube console, we'd need to run our specialized test files through it to thoroughly analyze it. After a long search that lasted a month, suddenly within one week, I found two people who owned a BC-‐6B, and one person who had a BC-‐3 which was a similar design with less inputs and 8 faders. So that was the good news. We were able to have some test files run through the units. All seemed good. But, then we got the results. As we somewhat expected, all three consoles had very different responses. This could have been due to many factors. These consoles are 50 years old, and over time had been recapped, retubed, and probably modded in some way or another. Therefore, they didn't share the exact frequency response or harmonic structures. However, we were able to build an algorithm that was based on all three units. From the very first algorithm that I was sent, I knew this would be a special model. First and foremost, it is by far the most obvious and least subtle desk. Its thick, rich, fat, and warm, with a smooth and silky top end. Kind of what you'd think a classic tube circuit would sound like. What was also interesting, is that the tube mixbuss wouldn't hard clip like a solid state console. In order to hard clip the mixbuss, you'd have to add an extra 24db of gain! So this thing had tons of headroom before it got nasty sounding. After doing some mixes with the tube model, I was extremely pleased. Although the desk model was fairly colored, I could still add the emulations to an already mixed song, and it would somehow just make it better sounding. Even on mixes that already had another VCC model sounded cool when adding the RC-‐Tube. Then a week or so later, I was mastering a friend's band that was recorded and mixed digitally. It lacked a bit of vibe and sounded a tad sterile. Tossing it through some analog outboard compressors helped, but it still needed some extra character. I tossed the beta version of the VCC RC-‐Tube mixbuss plugin on the master and gave it a bit of drive. Suddenly the song got deeper, fatter, and had this amazing analog vibe. 11
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