Heritage audio successor
Why settle for sterile VCAs in your mixing or instrument bus jobs now that the successor is available?
“Feel your individual tracks interacting and merging together in a way not possible when master bus compression jobs are relegated to the mastering stage.”
Traditionally, bus compression has been provided by VCA-style devices, based on ICs, which are totally unrelated to the warmth, fatness, and character of discrete Class A technology, including chunky transformers and diode bridge-based gain reduction.
The Heritage Audio successor brings all these and more:
a fully Carnhill transformer-coupled input and output unit, the new successor is a true stereo diode bridge-based bus compressor with advanced sidechain filtering and built-in parallel processing capabilities, sharing Class A. Type ’73 output stage for which Heritage Audio is famous.
Based on legendary vintage diode bridge designs, it retains the sonic character of such units, but the added features make it a new beast in its own right and let your mixes shine in modern production environments. Ultra-fast attack and releases deliver larger-than-life drum bus compression sounds, while the complex sidechain filter lets you tweak your mix in ways previously unavailable.
“Snare drums can be more present and the stereo image widens as there is more natural space for tracks to breathe.”
From FET-like, all-in-button drum sounds (now in stereo!) To VCA-style mix bus with extra warmth and fatness that only transformers can bring, the Heritage Audio successor is designed to stay connected to your mix bus and make your mixes shine through.
“Now the vocals stand out in the mix without being overwhelming or clouding your guitars or other instruments”.
- True stereo operation on single controls with matching gain cells for extremely accurate left/right tracking and near zero offset between channels.
- Compression tracking works in Oxford mode (the highest signal takes over the compression instead of adding the left and right channels).
- Carnhill-based , transformer-coupled balanced inputs and outputs for added character and vintage vibe.
Class A ´73-style output stages bring the ´73 sound you want to your mix or drum buses. - Diode bridge based compression excels at bringing 2nd order harmonic distortion properties and true vintage tone, while eliminating annoying extraneous harmonic content.
- Ultra-fast attack and release time options never found in vintage designs allow for much more flexible settings, including FET-like sounds and volume maximization without transient artifacts.
- Complex sidechain filter options work with the already common high-pass filters, introducing mid-band peak filters and high-frequency compression, which previously made bus correction impossible.
- Sidechain SEND and RETURN connections allow external sidechain signals or further external processing of the internal.
Blend control provides built-in parallel compression without external equipment. Blend ON/OFF button allows instant comparison between - WET and DRY signals.
Stepped controls for easy recall of settings.
