Audiothing Dolby Type A plug

BTW - on sale for $35 at pluginboutique

The Dolby Trick preset on Satin is also great if you have that.

I did a rap record where I created a template that had a few parallel busses and one of them was the Type A. It worked really well if a beat was more dense to get the vocal above it. And I think on at least one the beat was dark, so I sent a touch of it to the Type A bus. You can be quite creative with it.

Those Audothing guys have cool things going on.

How does the Dolby A effect differ to an Aphex type aural exciter?

They're very different.

Aural Exciter adds high frequency harmonics to brighten the signal.

Type A mimics the high frequency dynamic pre-emphasis of Dolby A noise reduction from the 1960s.  It's an old trick to encode Dolby A without decoding it for a hyped high end.  Sounds like a compressed high shelf boost.


The Type A plugin sounds great IMO.  The mix knob makes it 100 times more convenient than a hardware Dolby A module, which you have to mix in parallel if you don't want the full effect, which is pretty extreme.

I've heard of a Dolby trick for vocals. It supposedly smooths out vocals better than anything. I wonder if this is what the plug does.

It adds a top end sheen. That’s pretty much all I know that it does. I just picked the “Dolby A Vocal Trick” preset and mixed in.

Use the Standard Audio Stretch matched pair but only on guitars. They do a thing though.

Here's a DIY method of acheiving the Dolby A sheen effect using Cubase bundled plug-ins (you could adapt it to other DAWs).

www.soundonsound.com/techniques/bright-idea

It also includes a detailed description of how the effect is acheived.

Have to say though that the Audiothing plug-in is the easiest way to do it, and at a bargain price!

Martin

I have no idea. I blew them off when they gave away their API plugin because I was unimpressed...

U-he Satin

When Dopamine first came out, I tried it against TypeA and Satin. At first I favored Satin, but then went with Dopamine. Guys like Jantex were very impressed with it. I still use it on most tracks and busses. It's definitely Overloud's best plugin if you ask me. It's been a few years since I tried the others though.