Joemeek SC4 DAD and C2
To the casual reader, it must seem like there is a new Joemeek product almost every month, and perhaps that is not far off the mark. Far from resting on
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LA Audio Classic Compressor
There are currently available many compressors and other outboard devices which use vacuum tubes and which have fairly hefty price tags. Some of these units have a limited range of
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Neve 8801
This is a product that now seems obvious, and although there have been board room and financial shenanigans, one might wonder why it has taken Neve so long to produce
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Purple Audio MC76
I have yet to meet a recording engineer who dislikes or actively avoids using Urei 1176 limiters. Every commercial music recording studio worth its salt usually has two or more
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Roll Music RMS755
Minneapolis-based Roll Music… (which is a different company from Rolls Corp in Utah, here ‘Roll’ is derived from the difference between ‘Rock’ and ‘Rock and Roll’ music) …claim that the
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Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5043
Industry legend Rupert Neve adds a compressor to the Portico series, George Shilling finds the way in. Rupert Neve founded the famous Neve console company many decades ago, and it
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SSL Mynx and E Series Modules
SSL’s XLogic X-Rack system is now well established with a large range of modules with the flexibility to cater for all kinds of application, and boasting the major attractions of
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SSL X-Rack Mixer
I took a look at the SSL X-Rack a while back but back then the only module available was a Dynamics processor. In the meantime, SSL have introduced a series
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Ted Fletcher Audio Gear P38
King Edward is dead! Long Live King Edward the (P)38th, proclaims George Shilling… The P38 “Edward the Compressor” is the latest in a line of designs from Ted Fletcher that
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TFPro P10 the Mighty Twin
‘You ain’t seen nothing like the Mighty Quinn’ sang Manfred Mann. George Shilling ain’t seen nothing like the Mighty Twin… Ted Fletcher, the original Joemeek founder and designer, now develops
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Thermionic Culture Phoenix
Vic Keary has been involved in Pro-Audio since the 1950s, when studios often had to customise and build their own solutions. This environment has ultimately led Vic to the happy
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Universal Audio 1176LN
It is over two years since I reviewed the Purple Audio MC76, an enhanced recreation of the Urei 1176LN, my absolute favourite desert-island compressor/limiter. Perhaps awakened by the continued demand
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Universal Audio 2-LA-2
UA have been at it again. Previously, the 2-1176 packed a pair of mono 1176s into the space usually occupied by just one of them. And UA have performed another
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Vertigo Sound VSC-2
This German unit is also known as the Quad Discrete VCA Compressor, but the first thing to point out is that the Quad does not refer to multi-channel audio, as
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