By today's standards, the Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier from Universal Audio appears to be a rather primitive compression device. It has only two rotary controls, one for "Gain" and one for "Peak Reduction." However, behind this plain facade lies a unique electro-optical attenuator system that allows for instantaneous gain reduction with no increase in harmonic distortion. A tube-based compressor, the original LA-2A featured hand-wired components and an electro-luminescent optical gain reduction device that provided the fast attack necessary for broadcast applications. Additionally, the cadmium-sulfide photo-cells provided a very natural "two-stage" release which resulted in a compression characteristic more transparent than the other compressors of its day. To this day, the LA-2A delivers a trademark sound treasured by engineers worldwide. Painstaking care has been taken to ensure that every new Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier provides the performance and characteristics of the original. Each unit is hand built and each component carefully evaluated for authenticity.

• True to the original in design, manufacturing and performance
• Lag free, distortion free optical attenuator system
• 0 to 40 dB gain limiting
• Balanced stereo interconnection

Features:

• Dial in legendary optical tube compression on vocals, bass, drums, and more
• Record your tracks through legendary vintage-spec tube circuitry
• Enhance your music with iconic warmth and tube limiting/compression
• Simple, easy-to-use controls: gain and peak reduction knobs, limit/compress switch
• Track and mix with a piece of audio recording history
• Faithful to the original in design, manufacturing, and performance
• Distortion- and lag-free optical attenuation system
• Distortion: under 0.5% THD
• 0dB to 40dB gain limiting
• Balanced XLR input and output
• Frequency response 30Hz-15kHz (+0/-1dB)
• Output level: 10dBm; Gain: 40dB
• Low noise: 70dB below +10dBm output level
• Handcrafted in UA's Scotts Valley, California labs

UPC: 819937000034