Kush Audio, makers of such hardware as the Electra EQ (http://sosm.ag/mar14electra), have just announced a flexible new compressor called the Tweaker. Here's more from them.
Press Release: Audio maverick company Kush Audio is showing off the Tweaker, a brand new discrete-VCA, single channel compressor in a sleekly designed 19” rack format. Marrying vintage electronics with a forward-thinking control set, the Tweaker is sure to become a fixture in everything from bedroom project studios to world class tracking and mixing rooms, mastering suites, live rigs and all sorts of broadcast applications.
Tweaker’s unique “Sidechain Shaper” allows the user to focus compression on desired frequency bands, and its Curve function simultaneously adjusts ratio and knee, from a gentle 2:1 soft knee to 30:1 hard knee limiting. The unit’s attack can be varied from 10 microseconds to 70 milliseconds, yielding a level of control not typically available in a dynamics processor. Tweaker’s flexible release parameter can be switched between a fast Single Stage (variable from 20ms-500ms) and a vintage Opto-style Dual Stage (500ms-7500ms). Variable Drive control ensures the ability to dial in just the right amount of character, and a dedicated Mix knob enables parallel compression, smoothly blending the dry and compressed signals.
Among Tweaker’s other distinctive features are high torque 21-step detented pots, simultaneous monitoring of Input, Output and Gain Reduction levels, XLR and ¼” balanced inputs and outputs, linkable stereo operation between two units, and a universal voltage power supply.
“This is hands down the coolest, most flexible compressor I've ever used”, says Kush owner and founder Gregory Scott. “I can focus the compression where I want, and dial in anything from clean smoothing to filthy smack... I'm in smashbox heaven!”
The Tweaker will hit the street at $1495 MAP, and will be available before the end of 2014. Seriously…we swear…
