DocTron Stimming IMC Instant Mastering Chain 2022 - Black - Final Drop

Fantastic Condition. Only used in studio, never toured. Comes with soft case.

Stimming’s Instant Mastering Chain is a compressor with a musical EQ and saturator. You can insert the mini mastering chain at the end of your live rig to ensure smooth, consistent and satisfyingly loud results wherever you play, with a whopping 2.5 LUFS increase at the same peak levels. Alternatively, you can use it as an insert at the beginning of the setup, with a send/return for sidechaining the compressor if you feel like going full Daft Punk or just want to carve a little more room and pump for your percussion.

The IMC is a modest 56 x 146 x 143 mm sleek black box, handmade out of rugged carbon fibre to minimise the weight to a mere 1kg. It feels sturdy and comes with one additional power supply. There are 10 dials on the front, with unbalanced inputs and outputs on the back, plus one send/return sidechain and power switch. It’s road-ready and seriously minimal.

The IMC has a true bypass and the signal flow is as follows: sound enters via the inputs and passes, first through a two-band EQ modelled on classic British console EQs; from the equaliser, the signal runs via a discrete operational amplifier, to an SSL-style bus compressor that takes care of the levelling of signals. Finally, the compressed audio signal passes through Lundahl transformers that can be configured using the drive dial, and the sound leaves the unit via the headphone output or the adjustable main outputs.