Hannes Bieger, editor at Sound & Recording, wrote a review on the SPL Transpressor for the magazine’s April issue. It’s not the first time a specialized magazine has written about the Transpressor, take for example Professional Audio and Xound. But what Hannes Bieger did was kinda summarize it all (his way):
“In principle, there is no signal that couldn’t be processed with the Transpressor.. [...] Its specialty is definitely (miked) drum tracks. True, the Transient Designer had already proved its effectiveness in this regard, but the Transpressor takes everything a step further, delivering better results.”
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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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Hagü Schmitz, Chief Editor of Xound Magazine, tested recently the Transpressor. Our new dynamic specialist won several points for its simple and fast operation, which makes it interesting for studio and live applications. We decided to transcribe some of Hagü’s comments regarding the different Transpressor sections:
Transient Designer Section:
“It doesn’t really matter if you want to pump a recording or, on the contrary, smooth out a saucy one, if you want to bring up some of the room ambience or ‘bring to life’ an overcompressed signal — the Transpressor will do the job without losing your time.
Especially with percussive sounds, like drums and percussion, the two Transient Designer parameters alone provide incredible processing possibilities to achieve an optimal balance between direct punch and room reverb, even if the original recording had no punch nor enough reverb.”
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Last November, proaudio.de ran a contest and the prize was one of our brand-new take-no-prisoners dynamic weapons: the Transpressor. The winner was Andreas Hagen, who received the Transpressor directly in his studio.
We had the luck of meeting up with Andy and getting to know him better — a passionate musician who, like many of us, started his love affair with music as a very young kid, and also happens to be a very nice guy. View Full Article »
We have great news to all you SPL fans (and also to all of you who want to get to know our brand and products first-hand): Proaudio.de is giving away one of our brand-new Transpressors to all subscribers to their newsletter.
What? I just have to suscribe to the Proaudio.de newsletter and that’s it I can win a SPL Transpressor?
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What a Messe this year! Our warmest thanks and congratulations to all those working day and night to make it possible! You rock!! 
Were you one of the 110,000 lucky visitors at the Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound this year? If you weren’t you probably know by now that you should have been there!
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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 »
