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ToneSpot Acoustic Express
Best Tone of String Instruments Spotted Easily
No more tweaking. Get inspired by the sound and explore some new colors. Across genres & styles, Immediately. Dirt cheap. Express delivers exactly the same sound quality and exactly the same amount of processing power, but with minimum controls so you can get the sweet spot of your tone super-fast. ToneSpot Acoustic Express is a preset-based plug-in that improves your tone in one click. Improves the tone of stringed acoustic instruments such as acoustic guitar, piano, violin, cello, banjo or mandolin. Express is a little brother of the Pro version.
Acoustic instruments can take a lot of processing even the natural tone is needed. It’s because of the context. Acoustic instruments can fight against busy arrangements with several layers of instruments clashing into each other. Or the recordings are sounding too sterile, thin or harsh. So you need the tone that can cut through. The tone has to be harmonically rich and fat sounding, but it also needs to have a lot of clarity and tightness at the same time. But it’s not all! Even if the instrument is heavily processed, it also has to be very natural sounding at some point so everyone knows what instrument is played. And that's why you need ToneSpot Acoustic Express.
Acoustic instruments can take a lot of processing even the natural tone is needed. It’s because of the context. Acoustic instruments can fight against busy arrangements with several layers of instruments clashing into each other. Or the recordings are sounding too sterile, thin or harsh. So you need the tone that can cut through. The tone has to be harmonically rich and fat sounding, but it also needs to have a lot of clarity and tightness at the same time. But it’s not all! Even if the instrument is heavily processed, it also has to be very natural sounding at some point so everyone knows what instrument is played. And that's why you need ToneSpot Acoustic Express.
Best mixing tricks for stringed acoustic instruments processing
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Monstrous processing power and flexibility
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Musically labeled
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Settings based on analysis of world-class records
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Time-saver: No need to use many plug-ins
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Intelligent gain
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Let's Talk Engineering for a While, Shall We?
When a professional audio engineer is building that awesome tone in the studio, he is often running it through some heavy lifting. Blending several re-amping chains with massive filtering, heavy compression, equalization, saturation or even some multiband processing and maybe some other crazy stuff. And it is no secret that the top engineers often run the signal through their chains twice or three times in series until both the engineer and the artist are 100% satisfied with the result. So there is a lot of stuff to do when building a perfect tone.
There are very few products tailored for acoustic instruments post-processing, but most of today’s engineers use very similar workflows.
When a professional audio engineer is building that awesome tone in the studio, he is often running it through some heavy lifting. Blending several re-amping chains with massive filtering, heavy compression, equalization, saturation or even some multiband processing and maybe some other crazy stuff. And it is no secret that the top engineers often run the signal through their chains twice or three times in series until both the engineer and the artist are 100% satisfied with the result. So there is a lot of stuff to do when building a perfect tone.
There are very few products tailored for acoustic instruments post-processing, but most of today’s engineers use very similar workflows.
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Standard Acoustic Instruments Rigs
It’s not enough to run the acoustic instrument through a preamp or DI-box to get the standards we are hearing on today’s records. At the end of the day, we need a ton of surgical plugins, a ton of effects, simulation plugins that eat a significant portion of CPU power.
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ToneSpot Solution
There is a simpler solution. Tone Spot is just one processor doing everything. One missing product you need for every stringed acoustic instrument. It is a key to success full of tricks, extensive know-how and still with a lot of freedom.
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What Matters? Music or Sound?
Both. Great musical ideas need a great sound. Music industry changed over years. The quality of sound and sound aesthetics often determine the success of the music. It’s not enough to write good music anymore. You need breathtaking sound to get attention. And...
If you have an inspiring sound, you write and play better music. You have the ideas, we have the tool, so… Lets get inspired by the sound!
Both. Great musical ideas need a great sound. Music industry changed over years. The quality of sound and sound aesthetics often determine the success of the music. It’s not enough to write good music anymore. You need breathtaking sound to get attention. And...
If you have an inspiring sound, you write and play better music. You have the ideas, we have the tool, so… Lets get inspired by the sound!
Version Comparison
Feature |
Pro |
Express |
Usage |
Maximum Flexibility |
Quick results, "set & forget" |
Interface Zoom function |
Yes |
Yes |
Digital input/output meters |
Yes |
No |
Switchable analog meter |
No |
Yes |
Price |
$99 |
$49 |
iLok required |
No |
No |
Number of factory presets |
214 |
214 |
More factory presets in updates |
Yes |
Yes |
User presets |
Yes |
No |
Calibration |
Yes |
Yes |
AGC control |
Yes |
Yes |
Fully adjustable modules |
Yes |
No |
Product Videos
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ToneSpot Acoustic Express Teaser
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ToneSpot Acoustic Express Tutorial
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System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.9 - Mac OS X 10.14
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, AU 32b, AU 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b
Windows 7 - Windows 10
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b
Mac OS X 10.9 - Mac OS X 10.14
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, AU 32b, AU 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b
Windows 7 - Windows 10
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b
