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XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color Plug-in

Name: XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color Plug-in
Brand: XLN Audio
Rating: 4.5 (16 reviews)

Vintage Gear Coloration Effects Plug-in - AAX, AU, VST2

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Item ID: RC20plug

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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 effects will make your guitar soar, and its filtering effects 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 effects 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 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 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
Platform: Mac, PC
Upgrade/Full: Full
Download/Boxed: Download
Bit Depth: 32-bit, 64-bit
Format: AAX, AU, VST
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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Dope plugin, excellent customer service.

Adds whatever cassette/vhs/vinyl textures are needed to melodic elements, I got what I expected from the original lo-fi plugin that was used with Macs & PCs when an SP404 wasn't laying around somewhere. Dope stuff.

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).

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!!