Channel G Console — measured — Pro Audio Plugins

Tonal shaping

±0.12 dB

minimal · character, by design

Harmonic character

0.000%

minimal · character, by design

Noise

10.0/10

< floor · scored

Level dependence

-147 dB

minimal · character, by design

Latency

0 smp

factual · not scored

On the bench

48 kHz · 512-block · offline · same procedure for every plugin

Magnitude responsestepped sine, −12 dBFS

Output level vs. frequency.

It leaves your tone flat (within ±0.12 dB); the color here comes from added harmonics, not from EQ.

Distortion vs level1 kHz, THD / THD+N

─ THD ┄ THD+N. THD is the trustworthy figure; THD+N is method-floor-limited at low levels.

It adds a little harmonic color (0.00% at full level) — a gentle warming.

Latency, reported

0 smp

Latency, measured

0 smp (matches)

Onset

0 smp

Noise floor

below measurement floor

Linearity residual

-147.5 dB (1000 Hz, -12/-18 dBFS)

Processing cost

not measured

Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear.

It treats quiet and loud the same (within -147 dB), so its color does not shift with how hard you push it.

It adds no delay to your audio.

What these measurements mean

read from the numbers above · character / coloring design

On the bench it behaves like a coloring tool, scoring 10.0/10 on how clean its signal path is; its tone-shaping and harmonics are reported as character, not graded as faults. It leaves your tone flat (within ±0.12 dB); the color here comes from added harmonics, not from EQ. It adds a little harmonic color (0.00% at full level) — a gentle warming. Its own background hiss is below what the bench can even measure, so it adds no noise you would hear. It treats quiet and loud the same (within -147 dB), so its color does not shift with how hard you push it. It adds no delay to your audio.

Measured score 10.0/10 — signal-path noise floor (the shaping and harmonics are the design's intent, shown as character, not graded). How scoring works.

What people report

sourced sentiment · in our words, not a bench measurement

8.5/10 press & editorial reviews, 3 sources · a separate figure from the measured score

Consistently praised

One channel strip that models several famous consoles, with switchable EQ models and dynamics topologies calibrated to each desk mode.
Deep and flexible — five-band EQ, filters, compressor/limiter and expander/gate with very fast attack — that keeps revealing new uses.
Sounds excellent almost anywhere, with a smooth, controlled compressor and a knee that eases in gently or bites when needed.

Common criticism

Hungry on DSP and CPU; it is easy to run out of processing power once full Console instances are on every track.
A deep, feature-dense plugin that takes time to learn fully.

Sources — Production Expert ↗ Tape Op ↗ McDSP (maker) ↗

A review score is shown only when at least two independent sources — published reviews or genuine user discussion — return usable text. Launch or announcement coverage alone does not qualify, so some plugins read N/A here while still carrying a full measured score above.

How it sits in saturation

measured score + bench figures, then the sourced review score (separate, N/A if unscored) · alphabetical · not ranked

Plugin	Measured /10	Mag dev	Max THD	Latency	Noise	Review /10
Black Box HG-2	10.0	±1.5 dB	4.986%	32 smp	−182	8.9
Channel G Console	10.0	±0.1 dB	0.000%	0 smp	<floor	8.5
Decapitator	10.0	±5.4 dB	7.929%	63 smp	−163	8.9
Dist COLDFIRE	10.0	±6.5 dB	39.830%	143 smp	<floor	8.8
Dist OPAMP-21	10.0	—	—	0 smp	<floor	7.5
Dist TUBE-CULTURE	9.9	±3.8 dB	51.955%	112 smp	−154	N/A
Escalator	10.0	±0.2 dB	6.177%	0 smp	<floor	7.6
FireCharger	10.0	±2.1 dB	1.585%	8192 smp	<floor	8.0
Lurssen Mastering Console	10.0	±6.4 dB	1.705%	419 smp	−223	7.4
Quad Saturator	9.2	±0.1 dB	2.706%	4 smp	−117	N/A
Saturator X	10.0	±1.5 dB	26.227%	387 smp	−221	8.4
Super VHS	10.0	±3.9 dB	7.124%	1024 smp	<floor	7.9
TAIP	10.0	±2.5 dB	25.546%	63 smp	−165	8.4
Tape MELLO-FI	4.5	±65.8 dB	2.569%	248 smp	−70	7.6