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Just recently Wolfgang from @soundperformancelab g

Just recently Wolfgang from @soundperformancelab gave us this nice Crescendo preamp "for testing" - which is his usual sales strategy 😎

Well - it worked. Before he was able to ask it back we permanently screwed it in our preamp rack... The Crescendo - which is available in a 2 channel or 8 channel version - is a very cool sounding high-end preamp using SPLs special 120 volt technology. This started as one of Wolfgangs hobbies but has a real serious background.

Back in the 1990s, Wolfgang aimed to build the best mastering console ever and experimented with higher voltage, resulting in significantly higher dynamic range, signal-to-noise ratio and clipping resistance - and sonically, more detail and a totally relaxed listening experience. But conventional components and op-amps were not capable of handling such a high voltage, so Wolfgang developed SPL's own Supra op-amps, which are the basis for all of SPL's 120V gear today.

This basic technological philosophy then first took shape in the form of the "best mastering console ever" and so in 2000 the SPL MMC 1 mastering console for Galaxy Studios saw the light of day. In the following years, SPL used the new op-amps and 120V technology for its high-end studio and mastering equipment.

What we can tell is that this preamp has an enourmous headroom and dynamic range. It is virtual not possible to get any distortion out this gear and it sounds fantastic - especially with our vintage Neumann U47. It very quickly became our go-to preamp for any kind of vocal recording but it is excellent for drum recordings as well!
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Is there still somebody who remembers the days of

Is there still somebody who remembers the days of good old Nubus cards on you Mac?

Nubus was a 32-bit parallel computer bus which was very popular for expansion cards especially in the audio industry. Samplecell II and Audiomedia II were leading Digidesign Audio hardware NUBUS cards in the early 1990s (#digidesign later developed Pro Tools and was aquired by Avid in 1995) and one of the very first professional tools for audio editing.

Another quite popular Nubus expansion card was @lexicon_pro NuVerb which was basically a Lexicon 300. Or as Bob Riordan of Lexicon puts it, NuVerb "shares silicon and software with the Lexicon 300."

The thing with old computer hardware is that most of it got useless over the years due to system upgrades, lack of floppy disk etc. while real hardware still has some value. A Lexicon 300 is offered for 1.900 € on reverb.com - Nubus cards I haven't seen in years.

This Nuverb belongs to Holger Siedler from THS and runs on an old Mac II with Mac OS09 and is still working fine.
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Every engineer and producer has a favourite monito

Every engineer and producer has a favourite monitor. Some like #atcspeakers,#barefootsound, #neumannspeakers, #questedaudio and dozens more. #k22studios is equipped with @genelec_official speakers which we love very much.

BUT - the most important listening device only costs 200 €: Every time we finished a mix the final listening take place on Apples Earpods. First it's amazing how you can hear the least details - especially helpful to finally judge delays and reverbs. And often you discover one of this little audio gobblins you haven't heard on your main speakers. A very low click or a bad edit. It's a really good device for surgical listening. And second, this (or a similar device) is where 95% of your audience will listen to your mix.
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Graphic equalizers come in a variety of sizes, eac

Graphic equalizers come in a variety of sizes, each offering a fixed quantity of frequency bands. The most common in professional audio is a 31-band graphic EQ as shown here by @klarkteknik, where the frequency bands are centered on the ISO 1/3rd octave frequencies.
A graphic equalizer allows the user to adjust the gain of each frequency band, but the bandwidth is fixed.

Although parametric equalizers are much more versatile than graphic equalizers, some engineers like to use graphic equalizers because they provide instant access to frequencies, as well as the ability to access multiple frequencies simultaneously. It's a nice tool, especially for quickly eliminating certain unwanted frequencies. But you certainly see it more often in live racks than in studio racks. However, we still have a DN-360, which sometimes comes in handy!
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While the Aphex Exciter is know by most engineers

While the Aphex Exciter is know by most engineers and recording freaks, the Aphex Big Bottom is often looked over. Which is a shame as a lot of famous engineers such as @ryanhewittmix use the Aphex Big Bottom as a secret weapon on kickdrums and other bass-heavy signals.

Big Bottom simply tightens and boosts the bass, allowing individual notes to be more articulated and recognizable, providing a deeper, more resonant bass without overloading the sound system. Best: It does all this with no increase in peak volume!

Simply dial in the right frequency and the amount and get your ass kicked out of your chair. Awesome tool!

We own a unit which is just called EXCITER and is the latest and best version of the technology so far. It's a stereo unit with two Big Bottom and two ot the well-known exciter units.
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A very unspectacular but essential tool: The @palm

A very unspectacular but essential tool: The @palmer_germany Line Isolation Box PLI-01.

Line isolating boxes are used between mains powered devices to prevent ground loops. They can also be used to convert unbalanced to balanced lines. Sound super boring but often is a real essential tool in a studio - especially when you record guitars and have a lot of pedals in use!
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New addition to the synth rack: An Oberheim Matrix

New addition to the synth rack: An Oberheim Matrix 1000. The #oberheimmatrix1000 is the low-budget variant of the Oberheim Matrix 6 - therefore 6 analog voices on just 1 HE.

The Matrix 1000 comes with 200 RAM and 800 ROM sounds that can't be edited directly on the unit, but still sound fantastic (considering the price). Beautiful Toto horns, fat Oberheim basses, strings, lead sounds - it really is a fun synth!

And as with a lot of other vintage synth gear the rack units are much cheaper than the keyboard version!
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A new addition to our studio 2 lunchbox is @soundp

A new addition to our studio 2 lunchbox is @soundperformancelabs #splbig - an innovative 500-series double-slot module for editing the stereo stage.

We've read a lot of the reviews online and it seems that everybody is trying to explain the technology behind BiG but nobody really knows...😎

We know from well-informed sources that the BiG came about rather by accident. Wolfgang (or someone else?) had built a circuit that sounded cool and widened the stereo image. After some adjustments, modifications and testing, they were so pleased with the result that they decided to make a product out of it...

So as you can read on the SPL website, BiG processes a mono signal formed from the input signal, which no longer contains any signal components in phase opposition, through an analog filter network and mixes it with the original signal in a special mixing stage. No detailled explanation is given.

What does that mean to you? It means that it sounds just fantastic.

At first you think it doesn't do much to your signal, but when you bypass BiG, your original signal just sounds dull and boring. It is really fascinating how you can widen the stereo image (BIGNESS knob!) and how you can push it forth and back on your virtual stage using the "Stage" knob ("Range" is used to select the frequency range to be processed).

Of course you have to note its a "Stereo Image Shaping" tool - which means it does not work on mono signals. It just helps to spread you existing stereo image.

A really nice goodie is the additional "Bass" switch - here you can activate (BASS) or deactivate (Off) an additional bass boost independet of the BIGNESS section.
The bass boost is generated by a passive filter, which is implemented in a similar circuit to that used in the AirBass function of the SPL IRON mastering compressor. Love it!

The BiG is one of those tools that feels a little like cheating, but quickly ends up becoming an indispensable tool in your studio workflow!
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