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Description

Unleash the full potential of your audio productions with the Focusrite Red Plugin Suite, a compelling collection of FX bundle plugins designed for musicians who demand exceptional sound quality. This suite seamlessly integrates the iconic character of Focusrite’s Red Range hardware into your digital workspace, offering a rich palette of sonic possibilities. Whether you're mixing, mastering, or crafting the perfect soundscape, the Red Plugin Suite provides a versatile toolkit to enhance your workflow.

Each plugin in the suite is meticulously designed to emulate the warmth and clarity of the original Red Series, renowned in the professional audio world. The suite includes a compressor, EQ, and a preamp, all engineered to deliver precise control and superior sound shaping capabilities. With an intuitive interface, it ensures you spend more time creating and less time navigating menus.

Ideal for both seasoned audio engineers and ambitious newcomers, the Focusrite Red Plugin Suite is compatible with most DAWs, allowing you to effortlessly fuse analog warmth with digital precision. Its low-latency performance and high-resolution processing make it a reliable choice for any project, big or small.

Key Features:

  • Emulates the classic Focusrite Red Range hardware
  • Includes a compressor, EQ, and preamp for comprehensive sound shaping
  • Intuitive interface for streamlined workflow
  • Compatible with most Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)
  • Low-latency performance with high-resolution processing
  • Ideal for mixing, mastering, and creative sound design
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Software and compatibility

  • Ensure the Reaper-vstplugs64.ini file contains specific DLL entries for each plugin: Scarlett Compressor, Equaliser, Gate, and Reverb to troubleshoot loading issues.

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  • Downloading the latest version (1.6) from Focusrite's site may resolve installation problems with the plugin suite.

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  • If plugins are not recognized, manually delete existing .ini entries, restart Reaper, and allow it to regenerate the plugin list.

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Critic Reviews

Review: Focusrite Red Plug-in Suite - Audio Media International

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The Focusrite Red Plug-in Suite is a nostalgic nod to the iconic Red range, offering a clean EQ and smooth compressor experience. Ideal for quick mud removal and gentle acoustic enhancements, it seamlessly integrates into any digital setup. However, the suite is only available in a bundle, which might deter those interested in individual components. Overall, the suite is a powerful, user-friendly tool for enhancing mix quality, reminiscent of reconnecting with an old friend.

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nice and clean

decent modelled EQ and a lovely VCA compressor... I use the comp all the time because it reminds me of my RNC or an E series channel comp. Doesn't exhibit the variable time constants over threshold of a 160 so the grabbiness is very consistent without sounding like bare bones software compressors. Best for taming peaks on sounds that moved air or DIed keyboards performed with a lot of dynamics... exhibits some of the bass roll off inherent in VCA hardware designs when doing DI bass guitar or treating kicks. Love the dry blend, I just wish there were some indicators of your time constant for attack because I like to start with a precise, tempo based figure and then adjust by ear. Excellent auto-release too if you're into that. Clean and precise sound a bit like bare bones software comps but without ever getting brittle. Both EQ and comp are classic emulations that everyone should have.

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The Red 2 EQ emulation was used on the piano and vocals for "Take Me to Church", stated by mix engineer Rob Kirwan in this March 2015 Sound on Sound interview.

  • Guitars & keyboards: TL Labs TL Aggro, Avid Trim, Waves Puigtech EQP1A, Eventide H3000, Focusrite Red EQ & Audio Ease Altiverb.

“Below the ‘Kit Plate’ aux track are four organ tracks. The top two were recorded through an amplifier via my 57 and Delta mics, and below that is a distorted organ track, with the Trillium Lane Labs TL Aggro compression plug–in on it and a Pultec EQ. The ‘Organ 3000’ track is probably me putting one of Andrew’s Logic organs through my Eventide H3000. Further down are six guitar tracks without any treatments — the ‘T’ on one of them is a Trim — and below that are the piano tracks, some of which are again heavily edited. Andrew wasn’t as good yet at playing the piano. He’s very good now, though! I got him to do the left hand separately, which are the ‘New Piano’ tracks. I once again had the Focusrite Red EQ plug–in on the piano, and there’s a ‘Piano Verb’ aux track, which also has the Wendy Carlos EMT plate from Altiverb, just with a different pre–delay. In general I like to create a sense of everything coming from the same space, so the Wendy Carlos plate is on many things in this song. There’s more piano below that, again with just Focusrite EQ. In all there’s a lot of piano, it was one of the most important elements of the song.”

Used on the vocals for "Take Me to Church", as stated by mix engineer Rob Kirwan in this March 2015 Sound on Sound interview.

  • Vocals: Bomb Factory 1176, Focusrite Red EQ, SoundToys Echo Boy, Line 6 Echo Farm, Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer, Waves Renaissance Compressor, Avid Trim & Audio Ease Altiverb.

“The two ‘tele’ voices at the top are backing vocals. I think they were ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ that came from the demo. They don’t sound like telephone voices at all, so I’m not sure why they’re called that. Instead they almost sound like church voices. Below are two aux tracks for those vocals, with Bomb Factory compression, Focusrite EQ and an Echo Boy delay. The backing vocals below that — ‘BV1–4’ — are the ones with the signature Leslie effect on them, and they again have some Focusrite EQ and Bomb Factory compression, and I gave them some Echo Farm slap delay to add depth to the reverb.

“The next tracks are the verse lead vocals from his Logic session, called ‘Male Creamy Lead Vocals’, on which I put some Renaissance compression and a Trim, and ‘Vox Verb’ is the Moisturizer track, plus two Trim plug–ins, one being +1dB and the other –0.5dB. I hate automating in Pro Tools, so I will often use the Trim to bypass it. Writing automation is a tedious task. Below this are the chorus vocals, called ‘New Vocal’, so we obviously recorded these again at my studio. In order to make them sound like the demo vocal I stuck them through the same chain and EQ’d them heavily. ‘Vox Plate’ is the Altiverb, and there’s a delay track below it which again has the Echo Farm, on a delay setting. Finally there are several more double–tracked chorus vocals, and they also have the Renaissance and Focusrite, and the Moisturizer and Echo Farm aux tracks below them.”

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