Last December Holger Obst from German music production website ReleaseTime.de put our DynaMaxx to the test. We decided to post here a couple of abstracts from the very comprehensive review of our two-channel hardware compressor, which — as it is always the case by ReleaseTime.de — includes plenty of sound samples.
“The SPL DynaMaxx Model 9735 is exceptionally built, rugged enough even for live applications and its audio quality is outstanding. [...] Thanks to the Double VCA Drive, not even when pushed to the limits does it distort. Thus, it sounds very clean and with a superb definition — top analog quality, which is still quite far from what digital compressors can provide.”
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Professional Audio magazine reviewed our Transpressor in their December 2010 issue. Georg Berger called it the “Dynamic Duo.” He liked specially the “wonderfully organic analog sound” and the “brilliant Auto function in the compressor section.” But that’s not everything by far:
“Both dynamic sections have excellent audio properties and the shaping possibilities they offer make them very appealing. The Transpressor works best when both sections interact. It really doesn’t matter if you have the Transient Designer before or after the compressor in the signal path, the possibilities to shape sound are endless. We can give more punch to over-compressed signals by emphasizing the attack with the Transient Designer. Or, the other way around, we can control a very aggressive guitar by smoothing out its attack and then make it bigger with the compressor: in the end we would have a wonderful flat sounding and cutting guitar. These are only two of the countless options available — we wouldn’t have enough space in this review to even start to mention them all.”
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On the 15th of May, 2010, we visited Jens from our Hardware Department. He is giving right now the finishing touches to the Transpressor, his latest baby, which made its debut at this year’s Musikmesse. The unit tested by the visitors to our stand last March was only a prototype of the Transpressor. Like all of them could see, it was perfectly functional. But Jens is a perfectionist, so he wanted to recheck some minor details regarding the circuit and the layout of the circuit board before the unit went into production.
However, before the Transpressor came, Jens used to spend all his time with the Frontliner. It took him one whole year to get it the way he wanted it to be (from concept to actual production). Even though we know he is always really busy, we decided to meet up with him so he could tell us some of the secrets behind the Frontliner. And he was more than happy to welcome us…!
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We are pleased to announce the Transpressor, a new dynamic processing tool that surpasses the limitations of common compressors – no, we are not bluffing.
The Transpressor is the first processor that combines the two most important dynamic processing techniques: level-independent compression and treatment of transients. By blending these techniques in a single path, we aim to void the limitations each processor presented on its own.
Transient Designer
A transient can be defined as the first impulse of a waveform. What the Transient Designer does is shape the waveform according to the transient, and it only needs two controls to achieve that, either by amplifying or attenuating the attack and/or sustain. View Full Article »
