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The Vocal Mix Essentials Black Friday deal covers Black Rooster Audio's four-plugin vocal chain at $49, 62% off, with the offer ending Nov 22, 2026.
The Vocal Mix Essentials plugin bundle puts a preamp, a leveling compressor, an equalizer and a channel strip in one effects bundle, laid out as a start-to-finish vocal workflow.
The maker's suggested order starts with the Edelweiss`72.
Its expansion section refines the signal and removes unwanted crosstalk, so the later plugins get a clean vocal track to work with.
Next in the chain is the VPRE-73 on the vocal tracks. Black Rooster Audio says it is an authentic emulation of the discrete preamp circuitry and audio transformers of a classic studio preamp, and it keeps the famous high shelf filter band.
The VLA-3A handles leveling. The maker describes it as an authentic native emulation of a 1970s analog original and its go-to vocal compressor.
The idea is to narrow the energy around a target level: cut the overshoots and bring up the quieter sections, which the maker ties to presence and pressure.
The maker also says the VLA-3A brings out ambience on percussive material and adds glue to a mix.
The VEQ-5 covers tone. It focuses on the 200Hz to 7kHz range and is aimed at cleaning up and sweetening vocals, though the maker says it also works on guitars and keys.
For a more detailed approach, the maker points to the EQ section of the Edelweiss`72.
Black Rooster Audio says the plugins use real-time SPICE-type, component-based circuit simulation. Audio transformers, tube stages and passive filter networks from the original circuits are modeled.
DSP is pipelined with the SSE2 instruction set to keep CPU use down despite the heavy computation.
Oversampling is auto-adjusted to your session's sample rate. According to the maker, the oversampling stage cuts CPU load and keeps aliasing down through a Dolph-Chebyshev polyphase filter that stays linear in phase and adds little delay. The interfaces also support high pixel density displays on both Mac and Windows.
On Mac, you need macOS 10.9 or newer, an Intel Core CPU or Apple Silicon M1/M2, 1GB of RAM and a 64-bit VST, VST3, AU or AAX host.
On Windows, you need Windows 7 or newer, an SSE2-compatible processor (Intel Core recommended), 1GB of RAM and a VST, VST3 or AAX host.
Both platforms want a display resolution of 1280x1024 or more.
Yes. The Vocal Mix Essentials Black Friday deal is 62% off at $49, with the offer ending Nov 22, 2026. The bundle covers Black Rooster Audio's Edelweiss`72, VPRE-73, VLA-3A and VEQ-5 plugins.
Four plugins: the Edelweiss`72 mixing channel strip, the VPRE-73 vintage preamp emulation, the VLA-3A vintage leveling amplifier and the VEQ-5 vintage mid-range equalizer. Together they cover cleanup, gain, leveling and tone for vocals.
Mac hosts can be VST, VST3, AU or AAX (64-bit). Windows hosts can be VST, VST3 or AAX. Mac systems need macOS 10.9 or newer and support Intel Core and Apple Silicon M1/M2, while Windows needs version 7 or newer.
The VEQ-5 is a vintage mid-range equalizer focused on 200Hz to 7kHz, aimed at cleaning up and sweetening vocals. The maker says it also works on guitars and keys, and describes it as the classic choice for a vintage vocal sound.
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