HCL Varis - Wavegrove x Handcrafted Labs x Tape Over

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HCL Varis – Modern classic boutique compressor

Wavegrove x Handcrafted Labs x Tape Over
AAX, VST, VST3 and Audio Unit

https://wavegrove.com/plug-ins/hcl-varis/

-------------------- Intro price at 69€ - Normally 89€ --------------------
Intro offer will be on until the 3rd of July

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HCL Varis is a mastering grade all tube point-to-point design vari-mu compressor. It includes feedback and feed forward modes, dual-mono, mid-side and stereo link operation, independent pentode / triode signal chain, a sidechain circuit, Edcor input transformers and Carnhill output transformers.

Varis can be found in numerous studios around the globe and Gena has done amazing upgrades to the first Varis, which was released over a decade ago.

Varis is a modern classic. Or it should be, and we’re not the only ones saying this.

Varis is a versatile and extremely flexible unit that easily covers everything you would ever want a compressor to do. Varis is basically four different compressors all packed together for Pure Tube action – now inside of your DAW.

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HCL Varis Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PytuHOmfajk

HCL Varis - Wavegrove x Handcrafted Labs x Tape Over

Be sure to try the plugin out in the trial mode before your purchase, download at
https://wavegrove.com/downloads/

Check out the manual for HCL Varis!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7LNPa ... fCtfE/view

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VARIS TECH DETAILS
Varis is a mastering grade all tube point-to-point design vari-mu compressor. It includes feedback and feed forward modes, dual-mono, mid-side and stereo link operation, independent pentode / triode signal chains, sidechain circuit, Edcor input and Carnhill output transformers.

Features:
* Attack from 0.2ms to 40mS
* Release from 100mS to 2S
* Pentode / Triode circuit
* Vari gain emphasis mode
* mu-Differential reaction and air circuit
* Level calibration
* Added input/output gains
* Variable sidechain circuit
* SC dynamic listen mode
* 16 x oversampling
* Noise option for intersample modulation
* Delta mode
Made with iPlug2


There are switches for the Pentode and the Triode tube selection and they play a big role in this unit.

Triode can be described to be more open and tighter, while Pentode is darker and wider.

But when you switch between two compression modes, which are FF / FB, it yet again makes a difference between selected modes and impacts the sound and the behaviour of the plugin. FF mode is more complex and exciting, while FB is more predictable in its behaviour. You can blend in different variations between the selected modes and find the right tone for your source material.


PT and TR mode have also different eq-curves that are modeled from the hardware. Tonality and the differencies between the two modes can be heard when compressing at higher levels and they are also injunction with Vari gain.


With tube units, calibration and impedance is everything. While we didn’t want to model the unit 1:1, we wanted to respect these principles in our design and implement the idea so that everything reacts to the feeded gain load.

Adjusting input and output gain creates huge tonal differences in sound and impacts the behaviour of Varis. From dark hifi tone to a beautiful saturation, you have many possibilities to fine tune the behaviour by using the input and output section combined with level calibration, threshold and Vari gain.

Vari gain is an overdrive circuit that creates saturation after the compression, and partly based on the compression. Vari gain is highly gain dependent and it reacts to the signal load and reduction.

MuDiff is a variable tied to the compressor's reaction differential, meaning its compression doesn't simply react to the volume, but how it's interpreted over time. It also controls an active shelf, that can reduce the loss of high frequencies when the compression is over 5dB’s. Tubes are often considered ”dark” and leveraging muDiff allows you to control how much you want to tame or excite your material.

On the bottom of the plugin you can find the INPUT and OUTPUT gains. Use them in
conjunction with the other sections of the plugin to drive the stages in different ways, overdriving, or cleaning up the affected signal. The Input gain is before any processing happens, so it is as if your signal just got louder. The output gain on the other hand is after everything, even the clipper, and therefore lets you calm down the LUFS, while keeping all the distortion you were after. They can truly make or break the sound, both being something you might hope for.

The wide range dynamic Sidechain listen mode can be used intuitively to find and remove pressure points, or focus the compression to a specific area based on the selection. This helps to pin point the amount of compression to the selected area when pushing, or in releasing the energy content when gaining down. The Sidechain circuit also has gain compensation that makes the sidechain more of a tilt EQ.

Caution: Sidechain dynamic listen mode is fully active gain which means you can get 12dB pure gain volume to the targeted frequencies.

Varis comes with a tried-and-true arrangement of timing controls, namely attack and release. This setup will take you far and helps you grab the groove of a song and sway it into the direction you want. In addition, Varis includes an Automated Release mode, where the release timing is linked to the amount of compression happening, as well as the incoming material.

The selectable modes include a familiar-sounding BUS mode, as well as tempo-derived fractions, from 1/1 to 1/32.

Varis - gain control over your dynamics.

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Mastered with HCL Varis

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qqJr ... 2TZpedatSz

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A/B Comparison with Hardware at -2dB compression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkqSkw54GoU

HCL Varis - Wavegrove x Handcrafted Labs x Tape Over


https://wavegrove.com/plug-ins/hcl-varis/

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