A-Class Vocal
A-Class VOCAL
The presence you can't mix without
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That lush air around a vocal. The silky sheen that makes you lean in. Some studio tricks stick around for a reason.
Born from a custom-modified Type-A unit sourced from the studio of a certain Swedish songwriter, A-Class Vocal brings a legendary studio trick into your modern workflow. Its unique blend of tone shaping, harmonics and dynamics gives vocals a gorgeous, open top end that EQ alone can’t deliver—or lets guitars, drums and synths in on the secret.
Dial it in. Then try mixing without it.
Misused in 1966. Iconic ever since.
Long before plugins, engineers discovered a beautiful side effect of vintage Type-A noise-reduction hardware: used creatively, it could give recordings a luxurious, airy sheen.
It’s not just brighter. By using the encoding stage without decoding the signal afterward, engineers turned noise reduction into a distinctive enhancement technique. Its blend of tone shaping, harmonics and dynamics lifts the top end, adding air and presence that made it a favorite for vocals.
A-Class Vocal captures that character from a custom-modified hardware unit sourced from the studio of a certain Swedish songwriter. The classic sound, without the vintage-hardware ritual.
Follow your ears
Turn up DRIVE to find the perfect sheen. Use MIX to tuck it in or bring it forward. Hit MOD for an alternative flavor, with richer harmonics and added glue that can take the place of much of your vocal chain.
Limited controls, limitless character.
Don’t stop at vocals
The shimmer of an acoustic guitar. The sheen of overheads. A little extra glow around a synth.
Start with your vocal, then try it wherever the track could use some air, even on your mix bus.
You’ll miss it when it’s gone
Sometimes the best way to appreciate a finishing touch is to take it away.
Dial it in. Toggle bypass. Hear what you’ve been missing.
The IRDX® Difference
Like tape saturation, the IRDX effect may seem subtle at first. But when comparing engaged versus bypassed, here’s what you’ll notice:
DISABLED: Each note and chord sounds similar, and the guitar part seems two-dimensional and lifeless.
ENABLED: Your sound takes on a third dimension and reacts realistically, as if you were playing through a real speaker cab.
Capture your ideas
Using IRDX Studio as your standalone cab, capture any idea on the fly without loading up a DAW.
True Transparency
Not all IR loaders are equal. Some will trim your IRs, add EQ by default, or even resample your high-resolution IRs to a lower quality!
IRDX Studio is truly transparent, allowing you to hear your IRs exactly as they were meant to be heard.
"Absolutely my go to for IRs. Now I have everything in one place. Love it."
Tue Madsen
Producer
Behemoth | Meshuggah | The Black Dahlia Murder
"I think this thing rules! No notes."
Jamie King
Producer
Between The Buried and Me | The Contortionist | Scale The Summit
"This has to be the most intuitive way to blend IRs available today, and having IRDX plus an EQ with it under one roof is just what I was looking for in an IR loader!"
John Douglass
Producer
Megadeth | Stone Sour | Amon Amarth I Cannibal Corpse
"Super-intuitive blending, individual IR EQ, IRDX technology with two modes, and auto-calibration do wonders! I never thought an IR loader could bring so much excitement."
Max Morton
Producer, musician
Jinjer | IGNEA | Shokran | Morton
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What’s Wrong with Impulse Responses?
We love IRs here at Bogren Digital. Well-made IRs are vital to obtaining a great guitar amp sound 'in the box'.
But every single IR has a significant limitation: they can only capture a static, linear image of the tone curve and resonances of the cabinet. Like a photograph, if you will.
On the other hand, real-life guitar speakers are organic, moving things that respond dynamically to the input signal being fed into them.
Speakers are non-linear, and it’s those non-linearities that IRDX faithfully emulates and adds to your amp sim or IR loader.
The future of speaker modeling
Our IRDX (Impulse Response Dynamix) technology breathes life into the guitar sound by adding dynamic and true-to-life speaker behavior to static impulse responses.
IRDX technology, developed by producer Jens Bogren, uses advanced machine learning methods to reconstruct the difference between a real cab and an impulse response.
The end result is a guitar amp sim that reacts like a real amp, easily fits in a mix without sounding stale, and feels great when playing through.
Impulse Responses are excellent at capturing the tonality and resonance of a guitar cabinet, but by nature they are only a static snapshot in time.
By itself, an impulse response has the tonal characteristics of a real cab but without dynamics, it creates a lifeless, fatiguing sound.
Real-life guitar speakers react dynamically to the input from the amplifier. They move air, compress, and break up depending on how hard they are being pushed by the amp.
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System requirements
- Available as VST3 / AU / AAX
- Windows 10 or newer
- Mac OS 10.13 or newer (Intel & Apple Silicon Native)
- CPU with AVX2 support required
Customer reviews
Jens Bogren
Over 20 years of musical excellence.
Founder and head of Fascination Street Studios since 2001, Jens is famous worldwide for his work with some of the biggest acts in metal today:
• Arch Enemy
• Amon Amarth
• Opeth
• Sepultura
• And many more!
