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La Crème 3 Black Friday pricing from Tone Empire is $29, 70% off, until Nov 25, 2026, for a channel strip plugin with a Vari-Mu compressor, 4-band EQ and 2-band stereo expander.
La Crème 3 is a neural tube channel strip. The maker says it adds weight and body while staying transparent, and points to mix bus work, fattening drums, creamy vocals and dense mixes.
The plugin packs three processors into one interface:
All of it runs inside a single window, so you can dial in a full chain without stacking separate plugins.
The compressor is modeled with Neural LSTM technology. The maker describes it as smooth compression with tube warmth that glues a mix together.
Threshold runs from -20dB to +5dB. Attack spans 1ms to 70ms, and release runs from 200ms to 8000ms.
There is also a wet/dry mix for parallel compression and a sidechain high-pass filter from 60 to 250Hz to keep low end from triggering pumping.
Stereo link goes from 0 to 100%, and auto-gain keeps output levels consistent.
The low shelf covers 20Hz to 250Hz and the high shelf 3kHz to 20kHz, both with ±16dB of range. The low-mid band sweeps 200Hz to 2kHz and the high-mid band 1kHz to 8kHz, each with Q control.
The EQ can sit pre or post compression.
The stereo expander has separate low and high width controls. It uses all-pass decorrelation to add width while keeping mono compatibility, according to the maker.
Tone Empire trains LSTM neural networks directly on real analog hardware at 96kHz. The maker says this captures nonlinearities, harmonic interactions and frequency-dependent responses that equation-based circuit modeling misses.
If your session runs at 44.1kHz or 48kHz, the plugin switches on 2x oversampling automatically so the model works at its native rate. At 88.2kHz and above, oversampling is bypassed to save CPU.
Processing is 64-bit internal, sample rates go up to 192kHz, and typical latency is about 1.5ms.
The 150+ presets are sorted into 10 categories: Mastering, Mix Bus, Vocals, Synths, Bass, Guitars, Drums, Orchestra, Lo-Fi and Creative.
One license activates on up to 3 machines, and a 15-day trial runs with full functionality and no watermarks.
Yes. The La Crème 3 Black Friday deal takes 70% off Tone Empire's channel strip plugin, bringing it to $29. The offer ends Nov 25, 2026.
La Crème 3 is a complete channel strip: a Vari-Mu tube compressor, a 4-band parametric EQ with LP/HP filters, and a 2-band stereo expander. It also ships with 150+ presets across 10 categories.
Its neural model is trained at 96kHz. In 44.1kHz or 48kHz sessions, 2x oversampling engages automatically to cut aliasing. At 88.2kHz and higher it is bypassed, and the model runs natively. Sample rates up to 192kHz are supported.
Tone Empire offers a 15-day trial with full functionality, no limitations and no watermarks. A purchased license can be activated on up to 3 machines at once, such as a studio computer and a laptop.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.