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Tonelux Tilt
Foreword by Paul Wolff
After the success of the TILT control on the
MP1 and MP1a Mic Preamps, I felt that a
rack mount unit would be a nice addition to
the Tonelux product line. The decision was
made to make it an 8 channel unit, with
polarity, in/out and access with D-subs for
ease of use.
After using the TILT rack unit on a few
sessions, I was shocked at how useful it
was, and how smooth and sweet it made
tracks. I tried it on everything from Bass to
Overheads, Guitars, Vocals etc. It did so much
with only one knob that the only logical move
was to make a plug in. While designing the
features, Softube and Tonelux thought that
having a few extra options would really fill
out the module.
We decided to model the transformer in the
Tonelux products, and added a very smooth
high and low pass filter, not to fix problems,
but to have the ability to use a filter that
sounded like it wasn’t there. On top of that,
we added a loudness feature to the TILT
knob, allowing the engineer to boost both low
and high at the same time, much like a loud-
ness control used in post production, to simu-
late near and far positioning. So far, the few
friends that we have sampled it to have loved
it, with comments like “it’s just smooth” or
“beautiful on over heads, just enough sheen”.
After showing the TILT rack unit at a trade
show, it was suggested that we consider a live
version, which might include some different
features, one of which was a way of limit-
ing the boost, but retaining the TILT effect,
to prevent feedback in wedges and side fills,
so Softube came up with a unique “BOOST
CEILING” control, where you can set the
amount of maximum boost above normal,
to prevent feedback, but when using in-ear
monitoring you can still have the original
effect. It works really well to compensate ear
fatigue without altering a complex EQ or cer-
tain individual channel EQs. It never really
gets “louder”, it just gets “clearer”.
Paul Wolff
Designer and Founder of Tonelux