SS VCA Channel Compressor Colour Kit or Assembled:Kit Single Colour socket

Single Colour socket

The heart of the famed mix bus was a balanced summing architecture with a hybrid combination of a discrete quad-matched transistor input and a then-state-of-the art Signetics NE5534A op amp to provide open loop gain and load-driving capability

and Colour switches

The sweeps below demonstrate every band of the EQP5

reveals the peak reduction missed by the metering of older units

SS VCA Channel Compressor Colour Kit or Assembled:Kit Single Colour socketBig, outboard compressors like the 1176 and LA 2A get a lot of credit for their impact on classic records. But equally important is the humble channel compressor. Beginning in the early 80s, it became increasingly common for large consoles to feature a VCA compressor on every channel strip. This gave engineers unprecedented access to compression during both tracking and mixing, and changed the sound of records forever. The SS VCA brings the unsung