Tube Tech SMC-2BM Mastering Stereo Multiband Compressor The TUBE-TECH SMC2B Stereo Multiband Compressor is an all tube-based compressor that brings the entire music back in your mix! The SMC2B is one of the few audioprocessors, that is very hard to bypass, even after a short listening test, and it will stay inserted forever because of the colour and dynamics it can add to your mixes. Theese facts has made the SMC2B the favourite mixing/mastering compressor of many top mixers and mastering engineers around the world Technical description: Switchable crossover points ensure precise control with all three bands of opto-compression. Independent band specific Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release & Gain parameters make the SMC 2BM as flexible as it is accurate. Gain controls are fitted with 12 position gold plated switches with 1dB/step. Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release and Balance controls are fitted with potentiometers with 31 detents. The TUBE-TECH SMC 2BM Stereo Multiband Compressor features three independent optical stereo compressors. The signal is divided into three bands (Low, Mid & High) by 6 dB/octave x-over networks with 12 selectable frequencies: 60 – 1200 Hz for Low/Mid band and 6 selectable frequencies: 1,2 – 6,0 kHz for the Mid/High band. The design of the x-over networks optimizes the summing of all three bands, resulting in a flat frequency response (within +/-0,25 dB), when the gain controls for each band are set at the same level. The three compressors feature Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release and Gain and a display showing gain reduction. Master levels are set with Output Gain and Balance controls. Both Input and Output are balanced and have fully floating transformers with a static screen. The power supply and the sidechain circuit is based on a solid state circuit. With the exception of the output stage all DC voltages are stabilised. The world’s only “all tube based” multiband compressor design Three bands per channel with variable crossover frequencies between bands Stereo sidechain with variable Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release and Gain controls for all three bands Master Output Gain (-1 to +10 dB) Balance Control (+/-1,5 dB) LED display showing compression Freq. response @ -3 dB: 5 Hz to 60 kHz Low noise: < -60 dBu @10 dB gain Conductive plastic potentiometers Clickless bypass relay
