Black Box Analog Design HG-2

Add Saturation And Harmonics With Multiple Tube Stages

Made by Brainworx

Meet Your Mix Bus’ Best Friend

Celebrated mix engineers like Dave Pensado, Bob Horn, and Jack Douglas use the high-end Black Box Analog Design HG-2 tube processor on their mixes. The emulation of sweet tubes and creamy-sounding transformers not only make tracks sound richer and fuller, they also make them sound louder, bigger and punchier at the same peak level.
 
Paint Tracks With Different Colors

HG-2 emulates four different vacuum tube stages combined in series and parallel circuits to color your mix and individual tracks with a wide range of rich and varied harmonics. Separate gain controls for emulated 6U8A pentode and triode tubes are placed in series between buttery virtual transformers warming the plugin’s input and output.
 
Dial In The Perfect Blend Of Pentode And Triode Tube Sweetness

...then adjust the Density control to drive both tubes harder without changing their relative balance or the plugin’s output level, adding more girth and mass. The Calibration menu emulates the effect of an internal trim adjustment in the original hardware unit, instantly modifying the HG-2’s high-frequency response to produce Dark, Normal or Bright coloration.
 
Sprinkle, Punch, And Tube Softness

An added Air knob lets you control how much high-frequency fairy dust you sprinkle on vocal tracks, string instruments, piano and full mixes. Turning down the Mix control adds back dry signal at the plugin’s output, combining HG-2’s beautiful tube softness and luster with your mix’s perfectly preserved detail and punch.

Features

• Additional digital controls like Input Gain, Density, Calibration, Air and Mix
• Separate gain controls for virtual 6U8A pentode and triode tubes
• Parallel Saturation circuit selects one of two modeled 12AX7 tubes—one voiced more aggressively than the other
• Saturation Frequency selector to add generated 12AX7 harmonics
• Calibration menu to mimic internal trim adjustment
• Variable Density control to boost gain equally for virtual pentode and triode tubes
• Variable Air control to add silvery sparkle and sweetness above 10 kHz
• Added Mix control to adjust wet/dry balance

System Requirements

• AAX, AU, VST3
• macOS 15 down to macOS 12
• Windows 11 down to Windows 10