Thanks for the demo, man. I have all three modules. The A&TCs between themselves are night and day in terms of timbre. Not better or worse but different. Hard to beat the warm, creamy, sweet saturation and natural slew of the classic (vactrol) one thought. I’m def keeping both. But the one that’s gonna be buried with me is the vactrol one. Irreplaceable. Cheers.
The classic Amplitude and Tone is one of the greatest modules in Eurorack. I have had it since it came out, and it is 100% irreplaceable. Not just for LPG duties, but it makes anything you send through it sound so incredibly wonderful. Spend as much as is required to get one. Highly, highly underrated unit.
Just wonder, so it is usually the parts which involve gate opening and closing that will be useful to have a vactrol based design, right? Does the Harmonic Oscillator had vactrol in it in previous version design?
Vactrols can help smooth out any rapid change in voltage, so can also be useful for frequency components as well. I don't know if the HO had vactrols in the past, but I wouldn't be surprised....
@@JohnSchussler No the HO never had any Vactrols at least in the Euro Version as far as i know. But there are some very early Versions that tend to heavily distort and sound somewhat clangorous and screechy. The newer Version is a far more stable design that sounds a bit more like the Buchla Version that Mark did. But the newer Version can get in that territory though but is far more tameable. Don't expect clean Sinewaves on eather one of those ;)
The original Amp & Tone Controller sounds far superior to the others. No comparison. A shame Verbos had to change the design. I should have bought one of the originals while I had the chance. Cheers!
Thanks for the demo, man. I have all three modules. The A&TCs between themselves are night and day in terms of timbre. Not better or worse but different. Hard to beat the warm, creamy, sweet saturation and natural slew of the classic (vactrol) one thought. I’m def keeping both. But the one that’s gonna be buried with me is the vactrol one. Irreplaceable. Cheers.
The classic Amplitude and Tone is one of the greatest modules in Eurorack. I have had it since it came out, and it is 100% irreplaceable. Not just for LPG duties, but it makes anything you send through it sound so incredibly wonderful.
Spend as much as is required to get one. Highly, highly underrated unit.
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I have both and thinking to keep them both. Keep the amplitude knob down to 8 o'clock to avoid noise
which do you prefer?
I'm keeping both. They serve the same role, but have such different sounds that it's almost apples and oranges.
@@JohnSchussler even apples can taste really different.
Just wonder, so it is usually the parts which involve gate opening and closing that will be useful to have a vactrol based design, right? Does the Harmonic Oscillator had vactrol in it in previous version design?
Vactrols can help smooth out any rapid change in voltage, so can also be useful for frequency components as well. I don't know if the HO had vactrols in the past, but I wouldn't be surprised....
@@JohnSchussler No the HO never had any Vactrols at least in the Euro Version as far as i know. But there are some very early Versions that tend to heavily distort and sound somewhat clangorous and screechy. The newer Version is a far more stable design that sounds a bit more like the Buchla Version that Mark did. But the newer Version can get in that territory though but is far more tameable. Don't expect clean Sinewaves on eather one of those ;)
The original Amp & Tone Controller sounds far superior to the others. No comparison. A shame Verbos had to change the design. I should have bought one of the originals while I had the chance. Cheers!