For those looking for a Langevin 258-A, 259-A or Federal Television Corporate AM-864U plugins, look no further. Fuse Audio Labs has you covered and in this video you’ll hear them in action:
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The thing I like about Fuse Audio is they model esoteric gear that most of us have probably never heard of. Instead of doing the typical LA-2A, Fairchild or 1176 thing, they are over in left field looking for four leaf clovers. I respect that.
The Federal Television Corporation AM-864 was a 1950s era tube compressor. Original used for military purposes, https://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/76374-just-got-federal-limiter-am-864-u.html
Great on drums, vocals and bass guitar.
Langevin EQ 258-A Program Equalizer. Similar to the Pultec. Zero phase shifting.
Langevin EQ 259-A – Passive Filters
Fuse Audio VCL-864U = Federal AM-864. Review it with the VQP bundle
Compare Acustica Aquamarine’s EQ to the Fuse 258a.
– A 1950s era hardware emulation. It was one of the cleanest equalizer designs around back then.
The user manual says that Fuse rebuilt the original unit.
The interesting thing with this EQ is that the cut frequencies are fixed at
100 Hz and 10 kHz, respectively. The selection is for boosting, The low
hand is a low shelf filter and the high band boost is a proportional Q
peaking filter. The high band cut is a shelf filter.
The gold screw, which is easy to miss, is a an output gain trim control. 259-A: Out/in is the bypass switch. The Low Freq and High Freq controls are
mostly self explanatory. 18 dB per octave filters. On the right, you can
control which filters are active.
Federal AM 864. Vari mu compressor. Great as a parallel vocals, bass or drums comp when driven hard.
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=518333
- A 1950s era hardware emulation. It was the cleanest EQ around back then.
The interesting thing with this EQ is that the cut frequencies are fixed at
100 Hz and 10 kHz, respectively. The selection is for boosting, The low
hand is a low shelf filter and the high band boost is a proportional Q
peaking filter. The high band cut is a shelf filter.
The gold screw, which is easy to miss, is a an output gain trim control.
259-A: Out/in is the bypass switch. The Low Freq and High Freq controls are
mostly self explainatory. 18 dB per octave filters. On the right, you can
control which filters are active.
Download the trials at https://fuseaudiolabs.com/product.html?id=300910246 and https://fuseaudiolabs.com/product.html?id=300879685
