Adding size, depth and impact to a stereo signal has never been easier. The Venos stereo bus compressor is based on the same designas many legendary vintage tube compressors.Venos expands this impressive sonic signature with two revolutionaryhyper-compression modes, opening up new dimensions of sound. With SPL 120V technology this sound is crowned to king of dynamics. The Venos stereo bus compressor is basically a variable bias tube compressor. Venos works on the principle of a bias-controlled remote cutoff tube, but expands the sonic versatility of this concept withthe new hyper-compression modes “Focus” and “Punch”. Once the ideal input level is dialed in, comparing different parameter settings works like a charm.The parameters have been fine-tuned in countless listening sessionsto make the compressor intuitive to use.All parameters are set using switches or detented potentiometers.A single control element manages both, the left and right channel, allowing for easy recall! Modes The modes change the behavior of the compressor in regard to the input signal. The first three offer various analog filters (side-chain filters) in the signal path (not in the audio signal), enabling frequency-selective compression. Focus and Punch are innovative hyper-compression modes.The last mode activates an insert in the signal path, allowing the control signal to be influenced by external devices or signals. Linear If the first mode—Linear—is selected, only one capacitor is integrated in the signal path to filter out frequencies below 20 Hz. Consequently, the compressor does not respond to these low-frequency signals. Modern The second mode—Modern—integrates an analog bandpass filter into the signal path. According to the filter, the compressor does not respond to low and particularly high frequencies in the signal. This type of sidechain filter is often used in modern music mixes. Vintage The third mode—Vintage—integrates an analog filter into the signal path with a filter curve empirically created by developer Wolfgang Neumann. Focus and Punch The two modes, Focus and Punch, offer a lot more!With these modes, no frequency response-adjusting filter is used in the signal path. A special circuit enables a new compression behavior for variable-bias tube compressors. In these two modes, Venos becomes a completely different bus compressor! The compressor characteristic curve drops after reaching its maximum.
