Acustica Audio – Coffee Torrent: a plugin inspired by 60s classics
Acustica Audio is a company that develops advanced audio plugins for professional mixing and mastering, based on sampling technology and artificial intelligence1. One of its recent products is Coffee, a plugin that brings together a channel strip, a preamplifier, an equalizer, and a compressor. Coffee is inspired by vintage analog units but reengineered in a contemporary way.
What is Acustica Audio – Coffee Torrent?
Coffee is a plugin that emulates the sound and behavior of high-quality analog equipment used in legendary studios from the 60s. Coffee incorporates 6 different hardware units, merged into 2 equalizers, a high-pass/low-pass filter section, 5 dynamic processors, including a limiter, and 31 preamplifier emulations3. Coffee is designed to allow you to squeeze the unique sonic character of germanium transistors into your mixes.
What are the plugin’s features?
Coffee has an intuitive and appealing graphical interface that allows you to easily adjust the parameters of the different plugin modules. Coffee offers the following features:
- Coffee Pre: a preamplifier that offers 31 emulations of console, microphone, and tape preamps, with gain control, phase inversion, and high-pass filter.
- Coffee EQ1: a Pultec-style parametric equalizer with two equalization bands, a high-pass/low-pass filter section, and an output control.
- Coffee EQ2: a 10-band graphic equalizer with input and output gain control and a bypass button.
- Coffee Comp: a vari-mu compressor with threshold, ratio, attack, release, makeup, and sidechain control.
- Coffee Strip: a channel strip that combines the Coffee Pre, Coffee EQ1, Coffee EQ2, and Coffee Comp modules into a single interface.
- Coffee Limiter: a peak limiter with threshold, release, and ceiling control.
How to use Coffee Torrent?
Coffee is a versatile and powerful plugin that can be used on various types of sound sources such as vocals, guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, etc. Coffee can add warmth, presence, brightness, weight, depth, and dimension to your sound, depending on how you adjust its parameters. Coffee can be used for both creative purposes and technical tasks like frequency correction, compression, limiting, etc. Coffee is compatible with VST, VST3, AU, and AAX formats, and works in compatible digital audio applications on both PC and Mac.
