Softube Tube-Tech Blue Tone

The authentic, officially licensed sound of Tube-Tech

Console 1-ready, includes Modular and Amp Room modules

Based on the combined magic of Tube-Tech's SMC 2B & Equalizers

Tube-Tech Blue Tone gives you outstanding sound quality with an ultra-fast workflow. Blue Tone features multiband compression and classic equalization with simple macro controls. It has eight unique modes with typical settings for the most common use cases. Blue Tone ensures fantastic results quickly and easily without having to start from zero and dial in multiple parameters in multiple plug-ins on each bus or channel.

Simple and fast. Authentic and powerful. Hit the perfect note with Tube-Tech Blue Tone.

Softube & Tube-Tech: making modern classics
Our partnership with Tube-Tech goes back to 2006 when we began work on the definitive plug-in representations of the Danish company's best and most highly prized analog hardware units.

In 2018, we utilized our latest signal processing technology and released Mk II versions of CL 1B and Classic Channel. The super stunning high-resolution graphics and additional features made the best even better.
Never ones to rest on our laurels, we've also released the only officially licensed Tube-Tech SMC 2B Multiband Compressor plug-in, the new Tube-Tech Complete Collection 2, and additional updates to CL 1B Mk II.

Now, we bring you the quickest and easiest way to get the best of Softube and Tube-Tech with Tube-Tech Blue Tone.

Based on Tube-Tech SMC 2B
The Tube-Tech SMC 2B hardware is a staple of the world's most respected studios. We modeled every component and stage of this famed three-band stereo optical comp. The result is software that is indistinguishable from the hardware in our tests. Blue Tone gives you the authentic sound of Tube-Tech because we based it on our expertly modeled, officially licensed, and extremely popular Tube-Tech SMC 2B Multiband Compressor.

Eight magical modes
Blue Tone's eight unique modes let you quickly handle critical mix and bus tasks that range from the low-end EQ trick to classic vocal compression sounds, multiband widening, fattening up of tracks, and more. Just select a mode and dial the amount to get the sound the pros use in seconds.

Drawing on legendary equalization
We based Blue Tone's EQ section on the classic Tube-Tech equalizers PE 1C and ME 1B. Sought after by top-of-the-line studios through the decades, their sound enriches the textures of thousands of classic records in every genre imaginable.

What's Included
Tube-Tech Blue Tone
High-quality sound and authentic Tube-Tech multiband compression and equalization with an ultra-fast workflow. Blue Tone packs an incredible amount of processing into a simple interface. Get the sound the pros use in seconds with eight unique modes.

Blue Tone for Modular
Tube-Tech Blue Tone is also available as a module for Modular. Plug it into your Eurorack system to add even more creativity and true-blue inspiration. Combine individual components in a modular workflow to build patches, or create inconceivable combinations that no other hardware or software can deliver.

Blue Tone for Amp Room
Tube-Tech Blue Tone is also available as a module for Amp Room, our pro audio guitar and bass platform. Combine it with other studio effects, classic amps, cabs, and pedals to create studio-quality, record-ready tones.

Designed by Experts, Built on Legacy
Softube has a long history of emulating professional audio gear. After two decades collaborating with premium brands like Tube-Tech, Weiss Engineering, Solid State Logic, and Chandler Limited, we have a rock-solid reputation for recreating classics in software form that sound exactly like their hardware counterparts.

Tube-Tech Blue Tone is built on this legacy. Our meticulous approach to component modeling ensures that Tube-Tech Blue Tone captures the true-blue Tube-Tech sound with stunning Softube sound quality. And nothing less.

In short
Renowned Tube-Tech sound with easy-to-use controls
Created in collaboration with and officially licensed by Tube-Tech
Featuring the multiband compression of Tube-Tech SMC 2B and the legendary equalization of PE 1C and ME 1B
Eight sound enhancing modes:

• Vocal Clarity
• Vocal Focus
• Mix Bus
• Mix Bus (Wide)
• Drum Bus
• Bass Instruments
• Keys/Guitar
• Console 1-ready with modules for Amp Room and Modular included

This product supports
Extended Features
We love VU meters, Bakelite knobs, and analog quirks. But we want modern precision and workflow. The answer? Softube Extended Features. Easy-access panels with the innovations you need close at hand.