BB N105 Plugin (EQ and Saturation)

I purchased the BB N105 plugin hours after it was released and I tried it immediately. Love at first use 🙂 …but let me be clear – for podcast production this is not a must-have plugin.

It’s a channel strip plugin with EQ, saturation and preamp distortion. And to my ears, the saturation modeling they captured sounds AMAZING! We’ve heard many plugin creators say that their plugin “adds warmth”, but the warmth and thickness that the BB N105 adds sounds legendary (because the Neve 8078 console IS legendary).

From their website:

The BB N105 is a channel strip plugin modeled after the legendary console in Studio A at Blackbird Studio. Designed by KIT Plugins in partnership with John McBride and his team, we crafted a truly musical plugin that evokes emotion and inspires creativity just as the legendary console does for so many great artists.

The Neve 8078 console in Studio A at Blackbird is far from ordinary. After John McBride acquired the console for the studio, it underwent a massive restoration to bring it back to its former glory. The console received a series of modifications from some of the best minds in the audio industry, making it not only unique but arguably the best example of its namesake ever to exist.

We carefully examined the console’s legendary channel, from factory schematics to studying the way top producers and engineers use the console to better understand what made it so special. Our engineers carefully sampled the channel taking into account all of the factors – equalization, saturation, noise, distortion, depth and width and musicality. Our mission was to create a plugin that truly embodied the sound of recording in Studio A. To do this we sampled the channel in the console running through master bus B, and captured the samples using John’s favorite A/D converters. We truly believe we have captured the sound of this Neve 8078 in all it’s glory!

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