Fuse Audio Labs’ VPRE-376 is a pocket-money preamp plugin

Fuse Audio Labs has released the VPRE-376, a plugin version of a certain hardware preamp module that was originally designed for broadcasting applications. This emulates its audio transformers, discrete class A preamplifier and driver circuitry.

Additional features in this digital verison include phase inversion, a continuous drive control, gain compensation, a linear trim control and VU metering. You can use the VPRE-376 for subtle colouration and to add different flavours of distortion to your audio, while the High-Pass control can be used to clean up the bottom end.

VPRE-376 is available now in VST/AU/AAX formats for PC and Mac priced at $19. Find out more and download a demo on the Fuse Audio Labs website.

Ben Rogerson

I’m the Deputy Editor of MusicRadar, having worked on the site since its launch in 2007. I previously spent eight years working on our sister magazine, Computer Music. I’ve been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 24 of which I’ve also spent writing about music and the ever-changing technology used to make it.