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Call up 60’s Motown vibes instantly with the sound of the Altec 1566A pre-amp.Crank up Little Radiator and feel the heat! SoundToys Little Radiator Plug-In Features In addition to being a faithful recreation of the saturation and harmonic properties of the original hardware (based on multiple 1566A units at Soundtoys HQ), Little Radiator offers a mix control for easy parallel processing as well as a selectable Bias, altering the saturation characteristics of the plug-in. Little Radiator brings that same heat-generating character of the 1566A to your digital setup. The comparatively warm and punchy sound of the 1566A would become a sleeper classic for injecting that nebulous concept of “warmth” we mentioned earlier into setups based on an increasing amount of burgeoning digital technology. After all, these devices were primarily meant to supply PA systems and could be found in churches, school auditoriums, and roller rinks all across the United States.Įventually, aficionados of the analog sound began seeking out vintage 1566A units as inexpensive sources for a real-life tube front-end. By today’s standards, the sound of the Altec is colored and gritty, with a generous amount of old-fashioned hardware noise. Introduced in the early 1960s, the 1566A was a three-stage mic preamp and power supply, in a single-space rack unit, all behind an unmistakable and very green faceplate. Warmth: it’s the elusive and hard to quantify character that we’re all striving for in modern, digital productions.

Little Radiator was designed for the very task of turning up the HEAT on your mixes, utilizing one of the warmest preamps known: the Altec 1566A Amplifier. Inject a little tube heat into your tracks SoundToys Little Radiator Plug-In SoundToys Little Radiator Plug-In models the Altec 1566A Amplifier - a Classic Tube Mic Pre-Amp.