Plugin Alliance is proud to announce availability of BIG AL, a dual-stage tube saturator that offers a broad pallette of sound flavours flowing from the interative network within its transformer-coupled pre and power amp. Based on completely novel circuitry and authentic NOS components from the 1930s, the one-off analogue hardware has been exclusively designed for this plugin.

BIG AL’s frequency conditioning begins right in the EF9 preamp stage. It is a filter freak at heart with Low control being implemented as a Baxandall filter that allows for adjusting saturation intensity by around 100Hz in combination with boosting or cutting the bass at the same time. The High control is an additional EQ band placed in front of the preamp tube; its peaking filter boosts or cuts high-frequency content around 10kHz, essential for provoking or taming BIG AL’s potentially aggressive treble!

The straightforward user interface is spiced up with a jumper matrix, allowing access to BIG AL’s core circuitry: E (Emphasis Shift), B (Bass Compensator), and V (Voltage Sag) provide powerful options with which to make complex changes to the distortion profile on the fly by simply inserting or pulling out a few (virtual) plugs. An AL4 power pentode and its output transformer act as the finishing spice, driven hot by the preamp stage.

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