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XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color Plug-in

Vintage Gear Coloration Effects Plug-in - Mac/PC AAX, VST, AU
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Vintage Gear Coloration!

XLN Audio's RC-20 Retro Color Plug-in supplies you with a huge palette of vintage coloration effects that add texture and life to sterile recordings, enhancing your productions with the warm, inviting, compelling sound of vintage gear. Organized as six modules — Noise, Wobble, Distortion, Digital, Space, and Magnetic — RC-20 Retro Color delivers crunchy, raw distortion and bit reduction that adds grit to kick drums and bass. Pining for the sound of vinyl or VHS? RC-20 does that, too. Its chorus and space FX will make your guitar soar, and its filtering FX are perfect for contemporary club tracks. XLN's proprietary Flux Engine imparts subtle (or not) fluctuations and instability to all the effects modules, delivering retro analog vibe, warmth, and character.

Streamlined interface is fast and easy to use

Accessible at all times, RC-20 Retro Color's Magnitude fader gives you control over the processing amount of individual FX modules. Even when browsing through presets, it's easy to nail the ideal effect and the amount of processing. You can even automate the Magnitude control for amazing intros, transitions, and breakdowns. And speaking of presets, RC-20 Retro Color is packed with a truckload: from drums, bass, guitars, and keys to presets for full mixes and post production. And the streamlined interface facilitates experimentation. Take it from Sweetwater: with XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color, you can be creative right out of the box and achieve spectacular results.

XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color Plug-in Features:

  • A huge palette of vintage coloration effects
  • Enhance your productions with the warm, compelling sound of vintage gear
  • Add texture and life to sterile recordings
  • Perfect for drums, bass, guitars, keys, and even full mixes
  • Flux Engine adds warm, analog-like instability and fluctuations
  • Streamlined interface is fast and facilitates experimentation
  • Packed with killer presets to get you up and running fast
  • Access processing amount of individual FX modules while browsing
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Tech Specs

  • Software Type: Vintage Effects Plug-in
  • Platform: Mac, PC
  • Upgrade/Full: Full
  • Download/Boxed: Download
  • Bit Depth: 32-bit, 64-bit
  • Format: VST, AU, AAX
  • Hardware Requirements - Mac: Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
  • Hardware Requirements - PC: Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
  • OS Requirements - Mac: OS X 10.9 or later
  • OS Requirements - PC: Windows 7 SP1 or later
  • Manufacturer Part Number: FXFX0003

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Rated 5/5

Level Up Your Mixing & Sound Design

A bit of Retro Color can go a long way on absolutely any element of your mix. The reverb is particularly good for the snare and kick, as well as your brass and leads or support instruments. Not so great for bass, but the noise and magnetic sections can be useful for just about anything, including entire busses or mixes in very low quantities. I love the wow and flutter effects for brass and string if used properly. It is easy to over do this plugin for some wacky and crazy sound designing, but slight adjustments can turn a good mix into a great one. Don't underestimate this plugin. I quite literally use it on every individual track at times (aside from my bass and vocals).
Music background: Music Producer, Songwriter, & Engineer.
Rated 5/5

Drum enhancer

Great drum sound enhancer. Great when you want to create your personal sound on percussions. I use this on everything, bass, violin, guitars. Will make your sound stand out!!
Music background: Composer, Producer, Artist, Sound Engineer
Rated 5/5

GREAT VST

THIS IS MY GO TO FOR THAT SIGNATURE RETRO SOUND
Rated 5/5

XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color

Very GOOD plug in
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Retro color

Love this plug in. Learned about it fro Ryan Tedder's songwriting class. It's a fun one to use if at the end of the day you want to give it a vinyl and 70's vibe.
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