Revive Audio Vintage Audio MSL Buss Compressor

Selling my Vintage Audio / Revive Audio MSL-Mk2 stereo VCA bus compressor. Excellent condition and works perfectly. Handmade in the USA.

This thing sits on top of a mix like nobody’s business. It really does the classic SSL-style “glue” thing, especially well on pop and rock, while staying clean and punchy. The switchable sidechain high-pass filter is particularly useful for keeping big kick drums and bass from clamping down on the rest of the mix.

The MSL-Mk2 uses four THAT VCAs (two per channel) along with Burr-Brown op amps for a clean signal path. This is the standard transformerless MSL-Mk2 version.

Features:

• Ratios: 2:1, 4:1, 10:1
• Attack: 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 1, 3, 10, 30 ms
• Release: 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 1.2 sec, Auto
• Sidechain HPF: 60, 90, 150, 240, 440 Hz, plus External and Off
• +20 dB makeup gain
• Relay-switched true bypass
• VU meter selectable between input, output and gain reduction
• External sidechain
• Detector Out mode removes one RMS detector from each channel for a noticeably more aggressive and colored compression character
• Four THAT VCAs — two per channel
• Burr-Brown op amps
• Balanced XLR inputs and outputs
• 1U rackmount

Selling only because I’m changing my studio setup.