Acustica Audio
Ebony by Acustica Audio Review
2025
Ebony by Acustica Audio Review
In our review of Eboby developed by Acustica Audio, we are looking at a reverb plugin plus extras. Ebody is modeled after the EMT 140. Elektro-Mess-Technik (EMT) is a manufacturer of professional audio equipment; they developed the EMT 140 plate reverb which was one of their best-selling of EMT products.
If you’re looking for a suite of high-quality, professional-grade audio plug-ins, look no further than EBONY. This comprehensive set includes five different plug-ins to cover all your needs: EBONY, EBONY COMP, EBONY PRE, EBONY EQ, and EBONY REVERB.
With EBONY, you’ll get a versatile channel strip that can be used on a variety of audio sources. The built-in compressor and EQ make it perfect for shaping your sound, while the reverb adds a touch of space and depth.
EBONY COMP is a standalone compressor that’s great for taming transient peaks and adding punch to your sound. It features four different compression modes to suit any type of material, plus a wet/dry mix control so you can easily dial in the perfect amount of compression.
EBONY PRE is a tube preamp that gives your audio recordings that extra bit of warmth and character. It features two different modes for a variety of tones, plus a wet/dry mix control for blending in the desired amount of distortion.
EBONY EQ is a three-band parametric EQ that can be used to sculpt your sound with surgical precision. It features six different filter types for a variety of tones, plus an adjustable high-pass filter to remove unwanted low frequencies.
EBONY REVERB is a versatile reverb plugin with eight different modes to choose from. It’s perfect for adding space and depth to your tracks, or for creating lush, ambient soundscapes.
With its comprehensive set of audio plug-ins, EBONY gives you everything you need to produce professional-grade recordings. So if you’re looking for a suite that has it all, look no further than EBONY by Acustica Audio. Not only does EBONY offer a wide range of audio plug-ins, but it also includes a selection of mega pack drum loops that are perfect for adding groove and rhythm to your recordings. With these high-quality drum loops at your disposal, you’ll be able to take your music production to the next level. Plus, Acustica Audio is known for its commitment to delivering top-notch sound quality, so you can trust that EBONY will help you achieve professional results.
Ebony is more than a reverb; it is a bundle of analog vintage units including a channel strip, compressor and expander, EQ and filters, preamp, and plate reverb. Acustica Audio did send a review copy with no strings attached. Those various modules are available as single plugins, or you can use the channel strip plugin.
Ebony – Installation
You use the Acustica Audio download, installation, and authorization tool called Aquarius. This tool makes it easy to install and authenticate the plugin and supports different formats that need to be installed.
Ebony – Sound
Ebony is an excellent reverb originating from the legacy and combination: EQ, compressors, preamp, and the reverb. The plate reverb, EQs, compressors, and preamps should be all derived from EMT consoles. EBONY is a bundle that includes five different plug-ins:
Ebony channel strip
Hi and low filters, three different EQs, one plate reverb, four compressors, and a natural routing matrix for assigning processor modules to dry and wet signal paths.
The Acustica Ebony channel strip is a versatile tool for any engineer or producer. It features a high-pass filter, EQ, compressor, and gate, all of which can be controlled via the included remote control. The remote also has a LED display that shows the status of the unit, making it easy to see at a glance whether the unit is on or off, and what settings are being used.
The Ebony is also capable of linking to other Acustica products, allowing you to create a custom workflow that fits your needs. Whether you’re looking for a simple way to add some polish to your tracks, or you need a comprehensive solution for managing your signal path, the Acustica Ebony is a great option
Ebony compressor
Four compressors and one upward expander
The Acustica Ebony is a top-of-the-line audio compressor that offers outstanding performance and features. Ebony uses a proprietary algorithm to achieve a natural and musical sound, with low noise and distortion. It can be used in a wide range of applications, from vocals and guitars to drums and bass. The unit is very easy to use, with intuitive controls and a clear display.
Ebony equalizer
Three different equalizers plus hi-pass and Low-pass filters
The Acustica Ebony equalizer is a powerful tool for shaping the sound of your audio. With four bands of EQ, you can dial in the perfect sound for any situation. The low and high bands each have shelf filters that can be used to boost or cut frequencies, while the mid-range has a parametric EQ that allows you to adjust the center frequency and gain.
There’s also a built-in high-pass filter that helps to reduce low-end rumble. Whether you’re mixing music or recording a podcast, the Acustica Ebony equalizer is a great way to get the perfect sound.
Ebony preamp
Eight different preamplification
The Acustica Ebony equalizer is a versatile tool that can be used to shape the sound of tracks in a mix. It offers three bands of EQ, each with its own set of controls. The low and high bands can be switched between shelf and bell modes, while the mid band can be used to boost or cut frequencies.
In addition, the Ebony EQ features a bypass switch and a slider for controlling the overall gain. With its wide range of features, the Ebony EQ is an essential tool for any mixing engineer.
Ebony reverb
Plate reverb simulation with pre-delay, early/late, decay, and drive controls
The Acustica Ebony reverb is a versatile and powerful tool that can help you create unique soundscapes for your music. Featuring a wide range of presets, the Ebony allows you to dial in the perfect setting for any type of music.
Whether you’re looking for a subtle room sound or a dramatic outdoor space, the Ebony has you covered. In addition to its many presets, the Ebony also features an intuitive interface that makes it easy to tweak the settings to get exactly the sound you’re looking for. With its high-quality audio processing and flexible controls, the Acustica Ebony reverb is a must-have tool for any serious musician.
While you may buy the bundle for the reverb the Preamps, EQs and compressor are given you that vibe of creamy, smooth, dark chocolate truffles. Hungry?
If you are not into chocolate Ebony sounds in a nutshell like the real EMT 140 and includes additional plugin components that on their own produce a great tone. Ebony has a leading sound quality and is amongst the best plate reverb I have heard in the box.
The plate has a pretty superior vibe and sounds more real. The introduced pre-delay separates and moves the early reflections from the tail of the verb. With this, the sound keeps the perception of space created by the early reflection and has the tail grove with the beat of the music. The included EQ is excellent for shaping the reverb when needed.
The (four) compressors are incredibly snappy on drums, and the plate is just great for bass, drums, guitar, piano, and vocals.
The presets names sound like names you come up with after you did spend a long night with friends have fun.
Make sure to take a look at the presets and the selected photos in the manual, Acustica Audio is always going the extra mile in their customer-facing documentation.
User interface & Usability
The UI is similar to working with real hardware. Acustica Audio plugins, in general, sound like hardware units and you have to use them also in the same way. Ebony is rather CPU-intensive which you have to plan for when mixing or mastering.
You address this by reducing the number of used reverb by grouping or applying the final complete reverb at a late stage. Printing tracks helps to reduce the CPU load.
Conclusion
The Acustica Ebony equalizer is a versatile tool that can be used to shape the sound of tracks in a mix. It offers three bands of EQ, each with its own set of controls. The low and high bands can be switched between shelf and bell modes, while the mid band can be used to boost or cut frequencies.
The Acustica Ebony reverb is a versatile and powerful tool that can help you create unique soundscapes for your music. Featuring a wide range of presets, the Ebony allows you to dial in the perfect setting for any type of music.
Whether you’re looking for a subtle room sound or a dramatic the Acustica Ebony EQ is an essential tool for any mixing engineer, and the Acustica Ebony reverb is a must-have tool for any serious musician. Thanks for reading my review!
Rating: Five out of five stars
Ebony and the included different tools which sound magic and are genuinely beneficial. The plate reverb gives you that unique color and can not be found in many other plugins. The Ebony channel strip is handy for bass, drums, guitars, leads, pads, and vocals.
As a result of all the components included Ebony is one of the best sounding EMT140 Plate emulations you can buy.
Sienna – headphone mixing magic
Everyone is talking about mixing on headphones these days. But with so many different solutions on the market, how do you know which one is the best choice for your needs? Odds are that you have already tried some of these plugins, and were frustrated with their sound quality. This is why Acusticaudio created Sienna, their most energetic project to date. So you can craft epic-sounding mixes anywhere you are, using the supported headphones you may already own. Sienna works out of the box with over 150 headphones – and counting – from the world’s most famous brands that Acusticaudio consistently measured and profiled using a highly sophisticated and extremely accurate system.
Sienna Features
- Includes 3 plugins for an increasing level of control and sound customization.
- Compatible with over 150 headphone models.
- Powered by Acustica’s exclusive combination of sampling technology and proprietary algorithms.
- Up to 10 studio rooms and over 30 different professional and consumer-grade speaker emulations*.
- Emulates speaker harmonics and distortion.
- Includes AI-based presets from professional engineers to get you started in no time.
- Compatible with all DAWs like Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, and others.
Sienna takes a radically different approach from other plugins in correcting your headphones’ response and emulating mixing and mastering rooms, high-end monitors, Hi-Fi systems, car stereos, TVs, radios, laptop speakers, and more.
A unique combination of Acustica’s exclusive sampling technology and a proprietary algorithm not only makes any headphone perform better – regardless of its price point – but recreates on headphones an authentic, mixing-in-the-room feel you can’t find anywhere else.
Sienna Allows You
- Mix on your headphones with accuracy and peace of mind.
- Reference your tracks on a variety of professional and consumer systems.
- Tailor sound to your taste.
- Achieve perfect results fast without even turning on your monitors.
- Never second-guess your creative decisions again.
- Forget about expensive, bulky room treatment.
Sienna (Volume A) is an Acqua plug-in suite in VST, AU, AAX formats. It represents an ambitious project that took a lot of time in design and development, but that time, which Acustic audio willingly spent, has repaid us considerably given the incredible results achieved, which will completely change the way people mix on the go. The outcome of this effort is one of the most extensive and rich plugins that Acustica has ever created. It recreates the same listening experience as if you were mixing in top-tier studios, mastering in audiophile-grade rooms, or playing back your tracks on HI-FI systems, car stereos, boomboxes, and more, all through your headphones.
Pricing and Availability
ACQUA – Sienna is available now. Early bird price €89 (€149) – Valid through March 25, 2021 11:59 pm CET
Acustica Audio Green 4
Finally, after a long wait, Green 4 has landed and it now includes a 5-band Mono Parametric Equalizer, a 5-band True-Stereo Parametric Equalizer, a 5-band Stereo Parametric Mastering Equalizer and a Stereo Mastering limiter/compressor. Green4 emulates industry-standard, high-end processors found in recording studios across the globe, manufactured in the USA and designed by one of the most famous and respected recording engineers in the world, who is also the inventor of the parametric equalizer.
Green4 includes a 5-band Mono Parametric Equalizer, a 5-band True-Stereo Parametric Equalizer, a 5-band Stereo Parametric Mastering Equalizer and a Stereo Mastering limiter/compressor. It also features our Ultra-gain™ Matching technology, which accurately maps all the gain values for all of the frequencies, to give you utmost precision.
The first version of Green was released back in 2014 and, since then, it has been highly acclaimed by the public despite the technological limitations of the time. Today we are offering you an improved and expanded version of Green, comprising of 4 processors, to satisfy the demands of mixing and mastering engineers alike.
Green4 Suite
Green4 Mono Parametric Equalizer (GREEN4EQMX)
A 5-band continuous mono parametric equalizer with high/low shelf filters, +12/-12 dB gain excursion, Q amplitude adjustment for each band, equipped with L-R / MID-SIDE specific controls and a by-passable preamp stage emulation.
Green4 True-Stereo Parametric Mixing Equalizer (GREEN4EQST)
A fixed-frequency 5-band stereo parametric equalizer with high/low shelf filters, +12/-12 dB gain excursion, Q amplitude adjustment for each band, equipped with several controls including: L-R / MID-SIDE, control-link, different types of meters, Pan, Spread, phase inversion and a by-passable preamp stage.
Green4 Stereo Parametric Mastering Equalizer (GREEN4ZENEQ)
A fixed frequency 5-band stereo parametric equalizer with high/low shelf filters, +6/-6 dB gain excursion, Q amplitude adjustment for each band, equipped with several controls including L-R / MID-SIDE, control-link, different types of meters, Pan, Spread, phase inversion, and a by-passable preamp stage.
Green4 Stereo Mastering Limiter/Compressor (GREEN4ZENCMP)
A Stereo ‘RMS’ limiter/compressor consisting of two compressors (FAST-SLOW) running in parallel for each channel with a significant number of controls, including a blend control, L-R / MID-SIDE, control-link, different types of meters, Pan and Spread. It is therefore an uncompromising, precise, and extremely effective tool for mastering and other critical applications where maximum control, flexibility, and transparency are required.
Each plug-in included in the Green suite comes in a “Standard” version and an alternative “ZL*” version which operates at *zero latency and is thus suitable for use when tracking, at the cost of extra processing resources. For further details consult the Green user’s manual in the Overview section.
Pricing and Availability
Special Intro Pricing: €129 (reg. €219) You’ll save 40%!* on Green 4 (Intro pricings normally last for 30 days from the date of the announcement.)
SAND3 is a VST/AAX/AU plug-in suite that reproduces the sonic behavior of a series of high-end British consoles which literally dominated the Pop and Rock scene from the ’80s onward. Sound engineers from all over the world swear by their forward, slightly ‘aggressive’ sound as well as their logical layout.
With the SAND3 suite, Acustica Audio has faithfully recreated the sound characteristics of classic British high-end mixing consoles and recording studio hardware. It includes a powerful channel-strip featuring a combination of many devices into a single plugin, characterized by unique color with incredible new features. First of all let us briefly look at some of the plugin’s key features before moving on to its specific controls.
SAND3 Includes 6 Different Plugins
- SAND3 Channel Strip ( Full channel strip with EQ, compressors and preamp options )
- SAND3 EQ ( 3 band EQ module with 3 selectable per band models including a complete PREAMPS section )
- SAND3+G EQ (Homebrew EQ)
- SAND3+E EQ (Homebrew EQ)
- SAND3 COMP ( 3 switchable Single-band compressors)
- SAND 3 PRE (56 different preamps: 32 MIC, 16 LINE, 8 GROUP)
Sound engineers from all over the world swear by their forward, slightly ‘aggressive’ sound as well as their logical layout. Last but not least, SAND3 packs the experience of 7 renowned engineers, who have been directly involved in the development of dedicated AI presets, ready for use.
SAND3 is equipped with different multivariable meters for the INPUT and OUTPUT stages including VU, Peak, True Peak, LUFS, K12, K14 and more. Acustica Audio did this to give you the utmost in level reference during mixing.
Pricing and Availability
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