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Manley Vari-Mu

The Manley Vari-Mu is one of the very few compressors that has become a real standard in Mastering studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade and probably the next. "Mu" is tube-speak for gain, and Variable Mu. It works by using the "remote cut-off" or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression. The precious vintage Fairchild 670 also uses this technique and is one of few all-tube compressor to do so, that we know of. Even the side-chain has glowing rectifier bottles. How’s it work? The unique 5670 dual triode is at the center of the peak-reducing and compression action constantly being re-biased by the vacuum tube rectified side-chain control voltages which cause this tube to smoothly change its gain. Just like that.

Summit Audio EQP-200B

The Summit Audio EQP-200B is a full range two channel passive equalizer that utilizes vacuum tube technology to overcome any gain loss. Based on the original Pultec program equalizer design, the EQP-200B uses a tried-and-true design with some added Summit magic. The EQP-200B adds that special touch to your mix without the inherent phase anomalies of active EQ circuits, a secret weapon of some of the world’s top engineers for both mixing and tracking.

Drawmer DS201 Stereo Gates

The DS201 is a sophisticated dual channel noise gate incorporating a number of features pioneered by Drawmer, which are invaluable to the sound engineer, and not found on conventional noise gates.

Purple Audio MC77

Studio signal processors such as MC77 impart a unique sound while keeping levels under control, but are rare and expensive. The MC77 MC77 recreates the audio circuitry of the Urei revision E 1176, using modern components matched to the original.

Roland SRE555 Space Echo

Roland Tape SRE-555 is one the most popular and most sought after analogue tape units. Guitar players just adore them, other solo instrumentalists like them, and producers across the world still use them whenever they want to have the original, warm, tape echoing on their records. The huge revival of the interest in true analogue instruments in the 1990s, and the fact that they are not produced any more, made this wonderful machines highly wanted collector's items.

Eventinde H3000 D/SE

The Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer has found its way into almost every professional studio in the world. The introduction of the Mod Factory option allows modular analogue-like construction of effects presets. The H3000 offers a variety of effects, including true stereo pitch shift, pitch-correcting diatonic pitch shift, linear-predictive vocoder, six voice polyphonic synth, and a 19 waveform LFO

U87

The Neumann U 87 is famous for its warm sound and well balanced characteristics. Used extensively for vocals and orchestras, the U 87 is also particularly suited for cello, brass, piano, and percussion. One listen and you'll know why it's a classic.

Audix D2

It’s an excellent choice for miking instruments with a percussive nature such as rack toms, congas, saxophone, guitar cabinets and brass.

Rode NT4

The Rode NT4 is a stereo recording microphone featuring dual cardioid capsules mounted in a X/Y stereo configuration. The microphone provides transparent sound reproduction and accurate representation of signal within the "Left/Right" stereo field. This provides optimum results when capturing live performances, ambiance, instruments, choruses, choirs etc.

SM57

The Shure SM57 microphone has a bright, clean sound and contoured frequency response, great for guitar cabs, drums, guitar, and woodwinds.

Audix D6

Provides huge kick drum sound with ground shaking low end while delivering exceptional clarity and attack.

Blue Baby Bottle

The Baby Bottle's overall sonic character is neutral and especially rich in midrange response, making it an ideal microphone for recording vocals, drums, electric guitar and most acoustic instruments including "difficult" sources like saxophones, flutes, and stringed instruments.

AKG C414

A superb microphone especially used for accurate, beautifully detailed pickup of any acoustic instrument.

AKG D112

The D112 has earned a well-deserved reputation worldwide as the best kick drum microphone ever made. Heavy-footed drummers won’t phase it, because the D112 handles up to 160 dB SPL with no audible distortion.

Sennheiser MD 421

One of Sennheiser's most popular microphones! It's the MD 421 II's versatility that's made this one so widely acclaimed. Its ability to handle high-pressure levels makes it a natural for guitars and drums; it's an excellent choice for most instruments, as well as group vocals, or radio broadcast announcers.

Waves Mercury Bundle

With over 100 stellar processors and over 250 component plug-ins, Mercury features more Waves in one package than ever before! From time-domain effects to equalizers, from dynamics control to noise reduction, from guitar sound modelling to the sound of classic analogue components, there has never been such a comprehensive collection as this. The Mercury Collection offers more effects, more channel components, more mixdown tools, more processors than ever before in one place.

Sonnox EQ

The EQ plug-in is based on the OXF-R3 EQ section. It is a fully functional 5-band application with selectable shelf settings on LF and HF sections. Additionally, separate variable slope low pass and high pass filters are provided. The EQ also features 4 different selectable EQ types that cover most of the EQ styles currently popular amongst professional users, including some legacy styles which are renowned for their artistic capability.

Sonnox Limiter

The Oxford Limiter has been developed from decades of professional audio experience to provide a very high degree of quality and facility in programme loudness control and limiting functions. By employing highly accurate logarithmic side chain processing, along with innovative adaptive timing functionality using look ahead signal acquisition, the limiter provides exemplary performance, whether one is seeking general transparent level control, programme loudness maximisation or heavily applied artistic sound effects.

Sonnox Reverb

The Oxford Reverb plug-in is a highly flexible stereo reverberation generator, designed to complement existing Sonnox Oxford applications in providing the user with the highest technical and sonic performance coupled with artistic and creative facility. The Sonnox Oxford Reverb allows the powerful facility to create virtual spaces freely, depending on artistic need, ranging from dry reflection ambiences, room and hall simulations, sound effects, all the way to wide open reverberant spaces with a very large range of possible texture and spatial character.

Altiverb

Altiverb 6 is a convolution reverb plug-in that uses top quality samples of real spaces to create reverb, ranging from Sydney Opera House to the cockpit of a Jumbo Jet. Altiverb is described as one of the best sounding reverbs, ever!