OMNITEC-67A
VINTAGE PREAMP
GENERAL OVERVIEW
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OMNITEC-67A
| VINTAGE PREAMP
If what you are looking for is to add authentic vintage
warmth and grit to your productions, you have come
to the right place - the OmniTec-67A is the vintage
preamp that can flawlessly do it all.
Inspired by the famous Altec 1567A, our latest vintage
emulation
plug-in
features
lush
vintage
tube
saturation just like its hardware counterpart. It’s the
perfect tool to add saturation, harmonics, and subtle
distortion to your vocal, bass, and drum tracks.
The original unit was released in the early 1960s as a
rack-mounted tube mixer that had a simple two-knob
EQ and a whole lot of gain at a whopping 97 dB! Its
sound was filled with grit, density, and character, with
its signature green plate setting it apart from the rest.
This is the unit for that unmistakable raw analog
sound!
The 1567A went on to heavily influence the sound of
countless Motown hits, from The Supremes to The
Temptations, and it was famously used by engineers
such as Russ Terrana and Matt Wallace. It is
impossible to think of Motown without thinking of the
purposefully distorted and oversaturated brass
sections, electric piano, bass, and vocals in these
songs, which gave them the sound that we all know
and love today.
This iconic piece of studio gear can be credited for the
sound of a generation, along with the recording
techniques that these brilliant engineers used at the
time.
Following the Motown era, the Altec 1567A stuck
around and became the gold standard for achieving a
colored tube sound, at a fraction of the cost. Above
technical excellence, Motown producers focused on
creating an unmistakable aesthetic, which was so
influential that many artists across pop, rock, soul,
indie and hip hop still use it today - from vocals to
harmonic and rhythm sections, the Motown sound is
here to stay.
Our OmniTec-67A has been faithfully modeled to
bring this iconic studio sound to your DAW. Its drive
tube input and output channels have their own 3-
band EQ, as well as three tube types, allowing for
maximum versatility.
From gritty vocals to saturated kick drums and
harmonically complex mixes, the OmniTec-67A turns
any signal into pure analog gold.
This plug-in allows you to go back in time and breathe
new life to your digital recordings with all of the magic
of analog processing, and none of the hassle of
hardware gear.