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The vpre 73 Black Friday deal is 51% off at $19 until Nov 22, 2026, on Black Rooster Audio's VPRE-73, a preamp plugin that takes its cue from a legendary console preamp found in countless studios.
The maker says the VPRE-73 is a vintage preamp emulation. It simplifies the original processor but keeps the discrete preamp circuitry, the audio transformers and the famous high shelf filter band.
Black Rooster Audio says it aimed for an authentic emulation of the discrete preamp circuit and the transformers. The high shelf band stays in, so the filter section of the hardware idea carries over.
The company uses a real-time, SPICE-type, component-based circuit simulation. The maker says this captures the sound and feel of the analog counterpart in all its nuances.
The modeled parts, according to the maker:
The DSP code is pipe-lined with the SSE2 instruction set. The maker says this keeps performance high even though the computations are very complex.
VPRE-73 keeps aliasing in check with a poly-phase filter built on the Dolph-Chebyshev window, which introduces little delay and stays linear in phase. Its oversampling scales according to the sample rate of your project, and the developer says this reduces CPU load while leaving the tone as clean as it can be.
The interface supports high pixel density displays on macOS and Windows. On Windows, the manual tells you whether your DAW is HighDPI capable.
On Mac, you need macOS 10.9 or newer, and M1/M2 machines are supported. You need an Intel Core CPU or an Apple Silicon M1/M2 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 64-bit host that supports VST, VST3, AU or AAX. The display should be at least 1280x1024.
On PC, you need Windows 7 or newer and an SSE2-compatible processor, with an Intel Core CPU recommended. It also needs 1GB of RAM and a host that supports VST, VST3 or AAX, plus the same 1280x1024 minimum display resolution.
If you work on a Mac with Apple Silicon, the M1/M2 support is listed, so the plugin can sit in your signal chain without extra steps.
Yes. The VPRE-73 Black Friday deal takes 51% off, bringing the Black Rooster Audio preamp plugin to $19. The offer runs until Nov 22, 2026.
It is a vintage preamp emulation from Black Rooster Audio, modeled on a unit with a long and celebrated record in professional studios. It streamlines the original processor but keeps the discrete preamp circuitry, audio transformers and the high shelf filter band.
On Mac it works in VST, VST3, AU or AAX compatible 64-bit hosts. On Windows it works in VST, VST3 or AAX compatible hosts. Mac supports M1/M2 as well as Intel Core CPUs.
The maker says it models the input and output audio transformers, the discrete preamp circuit and the HF shelving filter band. It uses a real-time, SPICE-type, component-based circuit simulation to do it.
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