Thursday, August 4, 2011

Drawmer S2 Dual Channel Tube Compressor





The S2 is a Two Channel Tube Compressor introduced in 2008 from Drawmer's Signature Series. It has some great features that gives many creative options when it comes to dynamic control.

Take a look at Sound On Sound's Musikmesse '08 video of the S2:


From their website:

"The S2 Signature Series Dual Channel Tube Compressor is one of the latest products to emerge from Ivor Drawmer's high end designs and offers an ‘all tube - no technical compromise' circuit using only the highest grade components. The S2 features a host of new creative processing possibilities never before found in an all analogue dynamics package.
V-BIG: Retains bass frequencies and minimizes undesirable ‘pumping' by rolling off the detection signal at 75, 125 or 250Hz (user switchable). A fully variable level control allows for the desired amount of Big processing and an in/out switch provides the option to remove from the signal path for A/B comparison.
V-BRIGHT: A dynamic high frequency enhancer to keep compressed audio sounding fresh and bright with continuously variable frequency control (500Hz to 20kHz) and amount of dynamic enhancement.
DRY: Mixes user defined amount of ‘uncompressed' signal with the compressed signal to create ‘parallel compression effect' without the need for external mixing devices."


FEATURES:
  • 2 CHANNEL SOFT-KNEE TUBE COMPRESSOR
  • FULLY BALANCED INTERNAL SIGNAL PATH
  • CLASS A DESIGN
  • ISOLATION TRANSFORMERS IN AND OUT
  • ‘ALLTUBE' CIRCUIT DESIGN
  • VARIABLE ATTACK AND RELEASE WITH OPTIONAL ‘PROGRAMME DEPENDENT' AUTO RELEASE OPERATION
  • DUAL MONO OR STEREO LINK OPERATION
  • SWITCHABLE ‘PEAK' OR ‘VU' METERING TO DISPLAY TRANSIENTS
  • SWITCHABLE +10dB OR +20dB METER RE-SCALE MODES
  • 8 SEGMENT GAIN REDUCTION METERING
  • ‘BIG' MODE FOR RETAINING LOW FREQUENCIES
  • ‘BRIGHT' MODE FOR ENHANCING HIGH FREQUENCIES
  • ‘DRY' MIX MODE FOR ‘PARALLEL COMPRESSION EFFECT'
  • BALANCED XLR INPUTS/OUTPUTS


$4995 at Vintage King