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Tube Limiting Amplifier

Retro Instruments 176 Tube Limiting Amplifier Vintage Design for modern recording

Retro Instruments is changing the way the world sounds by creating classic style audio gear for modern recording. Retro products keep what made the originals the best of the best, updating vintage design with modern features to improve functionality - creating unique and innovative gear that sounds, looks, and feels vintage and state-of-the-art in equal measure.

  • Designed to provide the character of vintage tube compression in the modern recording studio 
  • Modeled after the superb UA 176 limiter with added features and conveniences.
  • Provides one of the most desirable compression signatures in recording history
  • Easy stereo strapping of two or more units
  • XLR input and output connections
  • Four settings of compression ratio
  • Precision Knob scales for easy recallability
  • Authentic variable-mu tube design
  • 115/230V AC Mains 

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Model
  • 176 Limiting Amplifier
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Made In
  • United States

About the Seller

Alto Music

Middletown, NY, United States
(122,235)
Joined Reverb:2014
Items Sold:214,937
Product Overview
The Retro Instruments 176 all-tube limiting amplifier is a modern spin on a classic Bill Putnam design, with new features and a stunning tone that must be heard to be believed for lead vocals. This variable-mu limiter makes for ultra-smooth compression regardless of how much gain reduction is happening and can be fine tuned with modern controls like sidechain high-pass, the utterly unique Vocal Asymmetry tool, and four switchable ratios.
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