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1. Up Down or Mouse Wheel Change a parameter such as a knob or a switch Keyboard Fine Adjust 3 Mac or crar Win while changing the parameter value Reset to Default Avr while clicking on the knob or fader Solo Several Mics sur while clicking on a Solo button l m e The 100 Watt Marshall 1959 Super Lead com monly referred to as the Plexi is the most legendary guitar amplifier of them all and its long list of users makes up a who s who of rock n roll history Softube worked closely with Marshall s product experts and legendary recording engineer Tony Platt who engineered AC DC s Highway to Hell and Back in Black to ensure that the Plexi was cap tured in the best possible manner The result is this plug in which is available exclusively to UAD 2 Apollo users It s not a Plexi It s the Plexi The particular amplifier that Softube modeled and based the UAD 2 Apollo plug in on is not just any Marshall Plexi In the making of this plug in Softube worked closely with Marshall s product expert Chris George who lent us this amp from Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959 Marshall s own museum not open to the public This very amp built in 1967 and kept in pristine shape at least on the inside by Marshall s techni cal staff is Marshall s own reference to how a Plexi should sound Patching The Plexi has two channels with a high and low input each Channel I is2. S GUIDE 13 and Volume II controls in the plug in to get the desired sound A common way of using the Plexi amp is to keep the Volume knobs at around 12 o clock and chang ing the gain with the volume control of the guitar Credits Henrik Andersson Vogel project management manual and marketing Niklas Odelholm prod uct design cabinet modeling graphic design Arvid Ros n amp modeling Oscar Oberg power amp modeling Tony Platt sound design Chris George Marshall expert and sound design Paul Shyrinskykh quality assurance Patrik Holm str m framework programming Torsten Gatu framework programming Erik Hampusgard configurations and building Mattias Danielsson support w Softube
3. a solid low mid range from the 57 and aggressive top from the 609 Mic1 Shure SM 57 Mic2 Sennheiser E 609 Room mic Neumann U 87 omni Off No Cabinet or Microphone Sets the cabinet and microphone emulation in bypass so that only the direct sound from the Marshall Plexi amplifier head is heard This is usually not regarded as a very pleasant sound but the setting is useful for combining the amplifier with other cabinet microphone models such as the ones available in Softube Vintage Amp Room Bass Amp Room Metal Amp Room Half Stack or Bass Amp Room 8x10 In all these plug ins the amplifier section can be bypassed This would be the recommended setting when combining the Marshall Plexi head with the cabinet in either of those plug ins Mono and Stereo Operation The Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959 is preferably run in mono to stereo or stereo mode The ampli fier will always be in mono but the cabinets can be panned separately Presets The included presets were created by Tony Platt and Chris George and provides an excellent way of ex ploring the tones of this amplifier A difficulty with plug in presets is that it s impossible to know what input gain the user has into the plug in so a clean preset might sound very distorted in your setup or maybe the crunchy presets are just too clean If that is the case adjust either the volume control of your guitar or guitar interface or the Volume I SOFTUBE USER
4. bright and present while Channel II is dark and full bodied A lot of sonic variation can be obtained from patching these channels together in different manners which is faithfully modeled in this plug in The right way to do it But the sound of a guitar amp doesnt just come from the amp itself Ihe cabinet choice microphone qe D En ye ioe y NA SS 5 2 E E we X pa vn N D E x 3 i E C U 3 y 5 x b X v e me e IR t i OFF uaa senc OO GO 49 Q VOLUME TI VOLUME INDICATOR ON STON ABORDA SS L VIRO LE GO en mu we BAW SPARTE XE ar do HY SAP oy rM e IRENA RL LE EEL AL A RO URN RU IC Volume Il Treble Bass easily compared to more modern constructions This selection and microphone placement are also vital adds a lot of character to the end result The particu lar speakers in this cabinet were not from the sixties parts in getting that sound Therefore Softube used the expertise of legendary engineer Tony Platt for as speakers that have spent nearly 50 years repro ducing the sound of 100 watt guitar amplifiers will have deteriorated and give a much different sound the cabinet and microphone simulation Tony s cre dentials speak for themselves Among many other compared to what was intended Ihe speakers used had however been well broken in to reach their full potential and liveliness s safe to say Tony knows b
5. the microphone chan nel in the desired position in the stereo panorama Channel faders Adjusts the volume of the re spective microphone channel SOFTUBE USER S GUIDE 11 Equaliser Main Out Main Out Low High Volume 9 iB cur ET LOW HIGH HAIN GUT VOLUME m ri ira de tri 0 0m A L ru E Li Y Pj A A 4 L EQUALISER MAIN CUT v OFF NEL US ji ni Marshall FET L iai amp ia Microphone VALVE Co du Selection CABINET MICROPHONE SELECT mu Solo m m d a LL s rm iu Pan Channel Faders 5 fw a 1 js EAMINPUTSTE fle Za JME TI ono C3 I Ir m m en E zu HH E dim scil c ea He w ri ET Ts TR ke 5E ii Click to show or hide the mixer Cabinet and Microphones The 16 ohms 1960 BHW cabinet was recorded with a legendary range of microphones all carefully selected to give a wide variety of tones and carefully positioned to sound fantastic when used in combi nation with each other Valve Microphones A thick and solid sound with a slightly rounded top Mic 1 Neumann U 67 cardioid 10 dB pad activated Mic2 Neumann U 67 cardioid 10 dB pad activated Room mic AKG C 12 FET Microphones Slightly more open sound with lots of ambience from the room mic Mic 1 Josephson E22 Mic 2 Neumann U 87 cardioid 10 dB pad activated Room mic Coles 4038 Dynamic Microphones Typical dynamic sound with
6. DONE rm 5 APIS TE 4 w Softube User Manual Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959 v NES SR STANOBY PRESENCE 4 6 e 9 re met art ete Rev Mar 27 2015 Softube User Manual 2007 2015 Amp Room is a registered trademark of Softube AB Sweden Softube is a registered trademark of Softube AB Sweden All visual and aural references to Marshall Super Lead Plexi 1959 and associated logos are trademarks of Marshall Am plification UK used under license The Valley People Dyna mite Tonelux and Tilt are trademarks of PMI Audio used with written permission from PMI Audio The Tonelux and Tilt logo the Valley People Dyna mite and associated logos are trademarks of PMI Audio Group used under license Summit Audio Inc is a trademark by Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics LLC used under license All specifications subject to change without notice All Rights Reserved Other company and product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies Mention of third party products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation Softube assumes no responsibility with regard to the performance or use of these products Softube products are protected by patents SE526523 and SE525332 and related patents patent applications including WO06054943 US11 667360 US20040258250 EP1492081 EP1815459 and JP2004183976 Your rights to the software are governe
7. Web www softube com E mail info softube com Phone 46 13 21 1623 9 am 5 pm CET Contents User Interface 5 MENIEROW Vs sw esa eee Ca 5 Key CHIMIE RE S T ee a r 6 Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959 7 Channel Strip Parameters 10 Cabinet and Microphones 12 Mono and Stereo Operation 13 i madero rear aa 13 Credits a orar la A cR 13 User Interface SOFTUBE PLUG INS ARE what you see is what you get products You should be able to intuitively learn Enable Enable Activate the plug in the products within minutes so that you can work Set to OFF for bypass fast and efficient with them There are a couple of things that remain the same for all of our plug ins such as the menu row These will be explained in this chapter For detailed information of a particular plug in please see its chapter Setup Changes global options for all instances of that plug in x 5 oftube Mode Active A Menu Row E Softube Mode Bypa er mr gt SETUP LUCI Bass Amp Room plug in as example but the same Ne In the bottom of the plug in interface you will see a thin black row with some buttons We ll use the goes for all plug ins Enable About Box Opens the About Box with When the Enable switch is set to on I the plug version info in is active and will process audio When set to OFF 0 it will be bypassed and not process any audio It Value Display Displays the knob val
8. d by reducing the amount of high frequencies being subjected to negative feedback in the power amp section Volume ll Controls the volume of the darker sounding INPUT 11 Patch switching Provides different combina tions of high and low inputs for INPUT 1 and INPUT 11 separately Clicking one of the four inputs selects it as the main input from the guitar black cable Clicking the selected guitar input again rotates between the available patching patters with the short black white fabric cov ered patch cable Patch Switching Bass Middle and Treble Tone controls that determine the frequency content from the amplifier By patching the inputs you will get different input gain and different tonality from the amp INPUT I1 is very dark sounding and by combining it with INPUT I you can work the Volume knobs almost like an EQ Volume Controls the volume of the brighter sounding INPUT I The most common way of patching is going into Black cable guitar in Input I High input no patching between channels Black cable guitar in Input I High input patching between Input I Low Click on the input to select the first patch configuration or another input to select a different input and Input II High This is the standard patch Click the input again to select the second patch configuration Black cable guitar in Input I High input patching between Input I Low and Input II Low Click the inpu
9. d by the accompanying software license agreement End User License Agreement Acknowledgements and Licenses Zlib h interface of the zlib general purpose compression library version 1 2 8 April 28th 2013 Copyright 1995 2013 Jean loup Gailly and Mark Adler Portions of this software are copyright 2006 The FreeType Project www freetype org All rights reserved WonderGUI used under commercial license O Tord Jansson Libpng versions 1 2 6 August 15 2004 through 1 6 12 June 12 2014 are copyright 2004 2006 2014 Glenn Randers Pehrson and are distributed according to the same disclaimer and license as libpng 1 2 5 Some code copyright O 2008 The NetBSD Foundation Inc VST is a trademark and software of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Mac OS X headers are covered under the Apple Public Source License APSL and available at http www publicsource apple com apsl Disclaimer Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate However there are a chance that we have made mistakes and we hope that you understand that we are only humans Please let us know about the mistake and we ll fix it in the mix or in the next version of this manual Support On the Softube website www softube com you will find answers to common questions FAQ and other topics that might interest you Support questions can be posted at http www softube com where we will help you as fast as we can
10. etter than most how to record a loud Marshall amplifier he engineered AC DC s Highway to Helland Back in Black It fantastic records ings Three mic sett The Cabinet Choice Tony chose to make three different microphone The goal for this plug in was to capture how the sets with three microphones in each two close mics and one room mic The user can open the Plexi sounded when it was new back in 1967 to get the sound Jim Marshall himself intended de panel where an easy to use channel strip appears Here the user can select between the three sets of microphones and adjust the individual 7 ins si plug To capture the typical late sixties tone Tony and Chris after much testing at Marshall headquar ters chose to use a straight 1960BHW 4x12 inch microphone levels and panning The settings are S 30 speaker cabinet loaded with Celestion G12H These are relatively low wattage speakers similar VALVE and DYNAMIC to indicate what microphone types were used named FET to those used at the time which will saturate more Amplifier Parameters The functionality of the front panel controls corre spond exactly to those of the real amplifier And just like in real life it is possible to connect the ampli fiers two channels in a number of ways On Off Bypasses the amplifier when set to OFF Presence Increases the amount of presence a treble boost ac complishe
11. t to remove the patch INPUT I at the top and patching from the low 1N PUT 1 to the top INPUT 11 but feel free to experi ment Input Channels Input top Bright high gain 1 MOhm input impedance Input bottom Bright low gain 130 kOhm input impedance Input Il top Dark high gain 1 Mohm input impedance Input I bottom Dark low gain 130 kOhm input impedance Note that clicking any parameter name on the front panel resets the corresponding knob to its 12 o clock position Channel Strip Parameters The channel strip can be opened by clicking the wood side with the green Channel Strip sticker It can be closed again by clicking the same wood side or by dragging the amplifier to right Equaliser Main Out Low Neutral bypass in the 12 oclock setting Turning clockwise boosts the low end with a shelving filter Turning counterclockwise cuts the low end with a low cut filter Equaliser Main Out High Neutral bypass in the 12 oclock setting Turning clock wise boosts the treble with a shelving filter Turning coun terclockwise cuts the treble also with a shelving filter Main Out Volume Adjusts the output volume out of the entire plug in Cabinet Microphone Select Select which set of micro phones to use see description in the next section Solo Sets the selected microphone channel in Solo mode disa bling the two others Only one channel can be soloed at the time Pan Places
12. ue when will take considerably less CPU when it is bypassed the mouse is hovering over a control About Box Value Display Enable Setup i V d we Softube Harmal Volume 4 5 Cm LU I UIV OUP DUDE Ju p z K Sa n x Setup In the Setup window you can change settings that will affect all instances of that particular plug in If you for example de select the Show Value Display option in the Bass Amp Room plug in the value display will be off for all Bass Amp Rooms on your system until you select that option again The different options vary between Windows and Mac and also different formats and plug ins The most common options are SHOW VALUE DISPLAY Enables the parameter and value display in the bottom row of the plug in REVERSE MOUSE WHEEL DIRECTION Mac OS Only Changes if the a knob is turned up or down when the mouse wheel is turned up or down Mac OS Only You need to restart your host software DAW before the changes to fully take effect If you messed something up and manually need to set these options you ll find them in text format in the following locations MAC OS Library Application Support Softube WINDOWS username AppLication Data Key Commands All numbers and labels in the plug in are clickable This allows you to easily select a setting by clicking on the wanted value Hovering above a label will turn the mouse pointer into a pointing hand Mouse
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