Puget Channel

Based on the Neve 1073 channel amplifier. The most recognized preamp in recording history. All transformers and inductors — transformer-coupled Class A discrete preamp, inductor-based 3-band EQ with high-pass filter.

Every component that matters

Every component that gives it that signature sound — the transformers, the hand-wound inductors, the tantalum capacitors — is a WDF element in our model. Nothing is approximated. Nothing is left out.

Real inductors, not filter coefficients

The inductor-based EQ is classic WDF territory. Real inductors have frequency-dependent losses, saturation characteristics, and Q factors that interact with the source impedance. We don’t approximate these — we model the inductor as a physical component with its real-world parameters.

The result is an EQ that responds to level. Push it harder and the inductors saturate slightly — the same nonlinear behavior that makes the hardware version a tracking staple.

• Transformer-coupled Class A discrete preamp
• 3-band inductor EQ + HPF
• Transformer I/O modeled as WDF two-ports
• Inductor losses and saturation captured by physical modeling

Use it on

Everything. This is the channel strip that built modern recording. Vocals, drums, guitars, bass — it works on all of them because the circuit was designed to work on all of them.

$199 — Perpetual license. No iLok. No dongle.

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