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- The FATSO plug-in offers a wide palette of possibilities for adding fat analog character and cohesiveness to your DAW tracks. It’s also a creative tool, able to add varying degrees of saturation — from subtle to severe — on any source.
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Able to warmly burnish frequencies and transients, or crush them with thick saturation, the FATSO Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces exhaustively emulates the iconic, industry standard Empirical Labs hardware.
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The FATSO Jr is a wondrous machine and, once experienced, you will find it hard to mix or record without one. This is so much more than just another tape saturation emulator, and it can add fantastic new dimensions to flat, lifeless and overly clinical digital recordings.
Arguably the coolest and most unique device in the Empirical Labs arsenal, the FATSO (Full Analog Tape Simulator and Optimizer) is a digitally controlled analog device that gives musicians and engineers easy access to many of the desirable characteristics exhibited by older tube and Class A electronics and magnetic tape mediums.
- Overview of Fatso's Four Processing Types
- Saturation and Distortion Generator
- Warmth Processor
- The Tranny Processor
- The Compressor and Its Ratios
- Using The Fatso
The FATSO was designed to integrate frequencies in a musical manner and provide foolproof, vintage-sounding compression. Generally, it is difficult to make the unit sound unnatural due to its vintage topology. So let's go over the four types of processing the FATSO provides and describe what they do. Harmonic Generation and Soft Clipper –This is ba...
It’s well known that the triode distortion in tube circuits produces lots of 2nd and 3rd harmonics, in somewhat varying ratios. Analog tape also saturates in this manner. The 3rd harmonic is induced in the FATSO by increasing level through two discrete distortion circuits. It’s usually the result of flattening the tops and bottoms of waveforms. The...
The Warmth circuit is by far the most complex part of the FATSO. It’s a very strange high frequency (HF) gain control circuit, or high frequency limiter. It operates very fast and should be unobtrusive, because it gets in and out of the way quickly. The desired result is akin to the HF saturation that analog tape exhibits when the high frequency am...
“Tranny” is short for transformer. Transformer design and use are art forms, and there will always be tradeoffs. However, it is widely known that a good audio transformer circuit can do wonderful things to an audio signal. This was the goal of our Tranny circuit. We emulated the desirable characteristics of the good old input/output transformers in...
Now, let’s dig into the compressor section. Each FATSO compressor type simultaneously sets the threshold, the ratio (in the standard sense of the word), the attack, and the decay. This was done to provide an easy-to-set, yet versatile, group of curves. There are essentially four discrete compressors, with the fourth having the ability to be combine...
Buss use was really the original intent of the FATSO (of course a myriad of other applications exist, too). It is a 2-channel device that can make a stereo digital signal sound analog, and integrate the different frequencies in a musical way. It can be used as a stereo device through which you can mix or transfer to or from a digital medium to make...
The Empirical Labs EL7 FATSO ingenious design and creative feature set gives users the wonderfully warm and pleasing sound of magnetic recording tape, class A transformers, and tube circuits ...
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Aug 10, 2004 · Enter the Fatso – this unit provides master quality compression and analog tape simulation that can tame the chiliest digital sounds. No, it’s not cheap, but in terms of relative value it’s one of the best buys out there today.
This month we are taking an up-close and personal look at the UAD FATSO Jr./Sr. Recently released in version 5.4.0 of the UAD software and drivers, the FATSO is the most-anticipated UAD Powered Plug-In to date.
