DIGIDESIGN ELEVEN PLUG-IN: Digidesign's new guitar amp-emulation plug-in promises to provide access to a connoisseur's collection of vintage and modern amp sounds. The set offers selected emulations of modern amplifiers and speaker cabinets from Vox, Fender, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie and Soldano, as well as several custom Digidesign creations inspired by the most revered amplifier designs in the world. Designers used a variety of techniques to capture cabinet resonance unique to each amp and speaker combination, and also modeled speaker load and coupling with the power amp emulating the natural cabinet resonance produced when driving a speaker at different volumes. It is available in TDM ($595) and LE ($395) versions in RTAS and AudioSuite formats. NAMM Booth #6606.
www.digidesign.com

IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE JIMI HENDRIX: This simulation plug-in ($249) evokes guitar legend Jimi Hendrix' rig. Based on AmpliTube 2 and made with Authentic Hendrix, LLC, the plug-in re-creates Hendrix's complete guitar amp and effects setup. In addition, it offers more than 20 new models, including the Vox Wah V846, Maestro FuzzTone, Univox Uni-Vibe, several Roger Mayer fuzz stomp pedals, the Marshall 1959 JTM100 Super Lead and more. Modules include a tuner, stomp effects, amp heads, cabinet/mics and rack effects. NAMM Booth #6520.
www.amplitube.com/Hendrix

PSP XENON LIMITER PLUG-IN: This new dynamic plug-in offers an integrated leveler, advanced K-System metering and psycho-acoustically optimized wordlength reduction. It is a full-band, dual-stage limiter plug-in using 64-bit precision processing throughout its entire signal path and can operate at sample rates up to 192 kHz. Xenon ($249) promises to control a recording's peaks and crest factors while preserving its spectral balance and transient clarity. Features include a two-stage brick-wall limiter with multiple higher-order adaptive envelope detectors for reduced aliasing and intermodulation distortion, oversampled sidechain for automatic protection against intersample peaks exceeding the limiter ceiling level, and precise vertical metering capable of estimating intersample peaks. The package also has a pink-noise generator for speaker calibration and triangular PDF dithering with three noise-shaping curves. NAMM Booth #6903.
www.pspaudioware.com

SOLID STATE LOGIC NEW DUENDE PLUG-INS: SSL unveils X-EQ, a parametric 10-band equalizer flexible enough to cover general duties as well as more precise, surgical EQing. What makes it really powerful is that each of the 10 bands may be set to its own EQ type for dialing in just the right response from your curve. Overlaid against a detailed active FFT Signal Analyzer, the EQ curve can be manipulated simply by grabbing it and moving the curve points, by turning onscreen knobs, by scrolling the mouse wheel or using numerical data entry. Bands 1 and 10 are low- and high-cut filters, with five available topographies; bands 2 and 9 are shelving EQs with proportional Q; and bands 3 through 8 are Bell Filters with nine available EQ types and may each be switched between standard-series or parallel signal flow. NAMM Booth #6907.
www.solid-state-logic.com

UNIVERSAL AUDIO TRANSIENT DESIGNER PLUG-IN: Universal Audio announces new plug-ins for the UAD family of DSP cards and Powered Plug-Ins, with the $199 SPL Transient Designer offering UA modeled, SPL authorized/endorsed AU/VST/RTAS plug-in versions of Transient Designer's unique Differential Envelope Technology. Features include the ability to increase or decrease the transients of percussive sources for greater impact, or a softened response; the sustain of sources can be transparently shortened or increased for increased musicality; and the ability to reduce or increase room sound or preexisting reverb on virtually any source. Highly useful as a gate substitute, this transparent tool for minimizing mic bleed is a versatile tool endorsed by world's finest professional engineers. NAMM Booth #7003.

UNIVERSAL AUDIO PRECISION BUSS COMPRESSOR PLUG-IN: The Precision Buss Compressor is a dual-VCA-type dynamic processor that yields modern, transparent gain reduction characteristics. It is specifically designed to "glue" mix elements together for that cohesive and polished sound typical of master section console compressors. Features include: modern and easy-to-use single-band gain control for buses and inserts; transparent, large-format center-console-type dynamics control; auto release for transparent buss compression on a wide variety of sources; automatic fade in/out, with a range of 1 to 60 seconds; and a mix control for blending wet and dry signals. NAMM Booth #7003.
www.uaudio.com

WAVES API COLLECTION: Developed with Automated Processes Inc., the API Collection features four precision processors based on renowned API modules: the 550A 3-band equalizer, the 550B 4-band equalizer, the 560 graphic equalizer and the 2500 stereo compressor. Used by engineers worldwide on countless hit records, these modules deliver a sound like no other. And with the API Collection, Waves captures every nuance of their unique sonic signatures. NAMM Booth #6620.
www.waves.com