Analog Diode Clipper Distortion Box for mixing and Mastering Music Audio Colour Box

The Almighty beautiful Diodes 1! Two stereo sets of super rare vintage diodes for enhancing your mixes and masters. The SSL diodes came from an SSL mixing desk channel (which had 6 lars lundahl transformers!!! - expensive!). At lower saturation settings they are superb at rounding off frequencies and kind of ‘solidifying’ and enriching audio. These guys can be pushed into heavy distortion and are excellent either in line or run in parallel. Listen in the video for the punch they add the harder they are driven - then listen to what they do to the piano piece at the end.
The second set are gorgeous vintage Germanium Glass diodes and are much more open sounding so super nice on vocals, acoustic instruments and electric guitar busses etc. Using the free Airwindows Purest gain is critical in getting the exact right amount of saturation for your audio source (and also for rebalancing the volume after the diodes) as it can + or - in tiny increments. Either running audio through these in series or parallel will get you much more punch and clarity - listen to what they do to the beats in the video (analog clipping rules!) - then listen to the beautiful bloom they give to the piano at the video’s end. Sublime.
They are sensitive bits of gear - so start running audio into them at -18db and work your way up to the desired saturation / clipping.
You can of course run side one into side two (or vice versa) for extra flavours - and for extra yumminess run the output of side one into the output of side two! (or vice versa!)
All analog - all passive. Balanced inputs and outputs.