Freqport - Tube Collection

The Freqport Tube Collection bundles both of Freqport's hybrid plugins: FreqTube FT1-EMU for tube saturation, harmonics and filtering, and FreqLift for multiband upward and downward dynamics with FreqTube saturation and clipping built in. One tube voice, two jobs.

Both run entirely in the box, and both can hand their tube stage over to a real FreqTube FT1 if you add the hardware later.

FreqTube FT1-EMU

A tube saturation plugin modelled at component level from a SPICE simulation of the FreqTube FT1 circuit. Two E83CC tubes for bold, forward drive and two 12AT7s for smoother warmth, with even/odd harmonics control and primary and parallel multi-mode filters to decide where the colour goes. It's the one for vocals, bass buses and anything that sounds too clean.

FreqLift

Where a normal compressor turns down what's loud, FreqLift can also bring up what's quiet: ambience, sustain and the detail between the hits. It splits the signal into LOW and HIGH bands with a linear-phase crossover, adds FreqTube saturation and finishes with an oversampled soft or hard clipper. It's the one for density and life on vocals, drum buses and thin-sounding synths.

Why the pair

The two cover different ground with the same tube character: FT1-EMU shapes tone and harmonics, FreqLift handles dynamics, density and peaks. Use them together on a vocal or drum bus and they sound like they belong to the same desk, because the tube modelling underneath is the same.

Included plugins

• FreqTube FT1-EMU: tube saturation and harmonics
• FreqLift: multiband dynamics, saturation and advanced clipping

Features

• Component-level circuit modelling of the FreqTube FT1 signal path
• Quad-tube engine: 2x E83CC and 2x 12AT7 (FT1-EMU)
• Multi-mode HPF, LPF, Peak and Band-pass filters, 12 or 24 dB/oct (FT1-EMU)
• Two-band upward and downward dynamics with linear-phase crossover (FreqLift)
• Oversampled soft and hard clipping (FreqLift)
• Full DAW automation and session recall
• Optional real tube processing with FreqTube FT1 hardware (sold separately)

System requirements

• macOS (64-bit) or Windows (64-bit)
• VST3, AU (Mac only) and AAX
• iLok activation (free iLok account required)

SOUND7 is an authorised Freqport reseller.
Digital delivery: licence activation code sent by email.