What do I love about my Tegeler gear? Everything! I love blue, the gear is blue, I love great sound, and they sound great. I love ease of use and easy to turn buttons, knobs and switches. I love that I can dial in exactly what I’m looking for and my Tegeler gear responds and gives me something deep, rich, fantastic, smooth, and inspiring.
I have two recording channels. One precedes the VTRC, one is the VTRC. I have their reverb, Raumzeitmashine, I have their Crème Compressor, and I have their Magnetismus 2.
Each recording channel is like a channel strip on a console. I often sing through one and play guitar through the other, tracking through each at the same time. I love bass and keys and percussion and mandolin, uke, and drums through them too.
I fell in deep love with their Raumzeitmaschine reverb watching the Pro Tools Expert video on YouTube. Dan Cooper’s presentation showing what this reverb could do just floored me. I had to have this reverb unit. It sounds fantastic on everything. I’ve used it on my voice, guitars, drums, piano, keys, percussion and as a dedicated reverb or creating a sonic space for a few elements of the mix.
I wanted Tegeler’s Crème Compressor because of its smooth glue, creating magic qualities. We’re used to the sound of magic on records so getting to use Tegeler pro gear is exceptionally exciting and achieves that goal for me. On individual instruments, or voices, or on a full mix the Creme Compressor delivers the subtle special something I was looking for.
My Magnetismus 2 is just the piece of gear I needed to give me substance, hair, thickness, sparkle. It adds harmonic distortion and for my album Snowcake, I not only recorded through Tegeler recording channels for most of the tracks but I would print reverb through the Raumzeitmashine, print instances of the Crème Compressor, and also print the results of individual instruments through the Magnetismus. It sounded like I had many of each piece of gear in parallel. The definition and enhancement of acoustic guitars, mandolin, and piano gave the tracks life and a top edge helping them stand out and come alive.
Folks often tell me that my mixes sound very analog, meaning not harsh. It’s easy to get my tracks sounding clear and expensive, of serious quality, and deep dynamic range with my Tegeler gear. Tegeler = awesome.
Lauren Passarelli is a performing songwriter, multi instrumentalist, arranger, producer, mix & mastering engineer, & Berklee College of Music, Guitar & MP&E professor. Her latest release, Snowcake shines with Tegeler gear.
