Shadow Hills Dual Vandergraph: Fully discrete 500 Series stereo compressor
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Shadow Hills Dual Vandergraph: Fully discrete 500 Series stereo compressor
The Shadow Hills Dual Vandergraph is a direct descendant of the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor and maintains its reputation of unquestionable quality and exceptional performance - in a 500 Series format. It’s inner workings are developed from the discrete gain cells of the Mastering Compressor which are combined with the Optograph’s extremely flexible Sidechain Filter matrix. This combination provides great possibilities for new recording techniques and the dynamic control.
This stereo compressor’s fully discrete audio path is Class-A and features Shadow Hills' custom Iron Transformers.
The controls are:
Ratio, Filter, Compression and Output Level.
Just like the Mastering Compressor, the Compression and Output Level controls are Swiss made twenty-four position attenuators. The Ratio switch, selects between: 1.2: 1, 2.5: 1, 4: 1, 8: 1.
In addition to changing ratios, each selection changes preset attack and recover times.
The Sidechain Filter Matrix controls the frequency sensitivity of the side-chain. The positions are: 90 hertz, 150 hertz, 250 hertz and Bandpass.
- Input impedance 20k
- Minimum load impedance 600 ohms
- Stereo
- Fully Class-A
- Discrete audio path
- Discrete gain cells from Mastering Compressor
- Sidechain Filter Matrix from Optograph
- Swiss made discrete attenuators
- Military Spec build quality
- Meets the specifications of the VPR Alliance
There is no limit to the number of Dual Vandergraphs that can fit into any 500 series rack.
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Product Overview
The Shadow Hills Dual Vandergraph is a Class-A discrete stereo 500 Series compressor with topological ties to the behemoth Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. This versatile module sounds thick as a brick, even before inviting any compression to the party. When it's time to start digging in, four switchable ratios go from gentle to aggressive while the sidechain filter section of the Optograph sits on the opposite side. Simple threshold and output gain controls are all you need to worry about to get your stereo mixes or groups under control. While the Dual Vandergraph may lack attack and release controls, each ratio has its own time constants to give you a range of sounds from fast and punchy to slow and gooey. Use the gentler ratios across an entire mix to give your track a bit of glue and polish, or strap it across a drum buss and and absolutely pummel it for explosive pumping sounds. To sum it up, if you've got two empty spaces 500 Series frame, you should probably have a Dual Vandergraph.
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