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Product Review - ART Voice Channel

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Published in SOS July 2009

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This budget recording strip is certainly a jack of all trades, delivering a huge feature set for the price — but does it offer quality as well as quantity?
Mike Senior
Applied Research and Technology have long been well thought of within the project studio fraternity, by virtue of their wide range of fully-featured analogue processors, including some with valves, at comparatively low cost. Their new Voice Channel processor under review here is a case in point, managing to offer a mic/line/instrument preamp, compressor, de-esser, expander/gate, EQ, and multi-format A-D conversion for comfortably under £500$450. What is particularly impressive is the amount of control you get, a total of 17 knobs and 10 buttons to tweak in search of your ideal sound. To avoid this review getting too bogged down, however, I’ve detailed all the main features in a ‘Vital Statistics’ box elsewhere in this article, so that I can instead concentrate on how well these features fit together, and how good they sound!
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While mic signals can be plugged into either of the two combi-jack/XLR input sockets, a jack connected to the front-panel input will see a high impedance suitable for instruments, and a rear-panel jack connection will see a lower impedance suitable for line-level sources. The preamp’s 60dB mic gain is already pretty decent, but the provision of a further 20dB gain on the pre-conversion output level control means that distant miking with ribbon mics becomes more feasible.
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