Neve 33609 Stereo Compressor
Neva 33609 Stereo Compressor
One of the World’s Finest Audio Compressors, Bar None. The Neve 33609 Stereo Compressor offers comprehensive limiting and compression facilities for music recording, mastering, post production and broadcast applications.
Features:
- Classic Stereo Compressor / Limiter designed to exacting 1970’s specifications
- Made using hand-wired Neve transformers in Burnley, England
- Classic 2254 feedback compression circuitry
- Brick Wall Limiting
- Transparent level control
- Perfect for mixing, broadcast, and mastering applications
- Hard Limit feature for digital recording
- Limit in/out Compress in/out
- Discrete output stage for slightly warmer sound
Specifications:
- Input Impedance: 10k (internally switchable to 600 Ω , refer to vendor)
- Maximum output: 26dBu into 600 Ω, balanced and earth free.
- Distortion: < 0.075% at 1kHz (by pass in, compress and limit out, input level 9dBu) 9dBu); <0.2% at 1kHz (compress in, ratio 6:1, gain 20dB, recovery 800mS, threshold 18dBu)18dBu); <0.45% at 1kHz (limit in, compress out, recovery 800mS, input level 22dBu, threshold −18dBu)
- Fre quency Response: ±0.5 dB 20Hz to 20kHz rel. 1kHz
- Noise: −75dBu, 22Hz 22kHz, input terminated with 600Ω (bypass in, compress and limit out), −55dBu (compress in, gain 20dB)
- Limit Threshold: 4dBu to 15dBu
- Limit Ratio: Change in output level <0.1dB with 10dBu to 20dBu step input
- Limit Attack Time: Fast 2ms ±1 , s low 4ms ±1
- Limit Recovery Time: 50ms to 800ms, a1 (auto): 100ms/2000ms, a2 (auto): 50ms/5000ms
- Compress Ratio: 1.5:1 to 6:1
- Compress Attack Time: Fast 3ms ±1 , s low 6ms ±1 with 10 0Hz first order high pass filter
- Compress Recovery Time: 100ms to 1500ms, a1 (auto): 100ms/2000ms, a2 (auto): 50ms/5000ms
