How does The Glue compare to the analog hardware? And where is the hiss of the hardware?
It sounds as close to the original as can be, minus the hiss and unwanted distortion, but adds all the benefits of a digital plugin including total recall in your project, automation, multiples instances, and no extra boxes to lug around. The Glue does not model non-linearities of the transformers or the voltage controlled amplifier chips used (That2181), in the hardware, and therefore doesn’t have the hiss introduced by them. Non-linear behaviour from the chips is not desirable – more expensive chips behave more linearly. Multiple That2181 chips are used in parallel to improve the signal to noise ratio and linearity of the compressors. The Glue uses a perfect That2181 chip in its model which is impossible in analog. Where non-linearities are a feature of the compressor instead of a drawback they have been modeled.
