Siemens U274
Racked & Modified
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Vintage Diode Bridge Limiter/ Mic Preamplifier module built by Siemens in the late 60s. It has been recapped, heavily modded, and racked.
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Mods:
- Mic/Line switch
- Variable Input Attenuator for "Fine Gain"
- Variable Side-Chain HP Filter, 60-360Hz
- Six different time-constants for attack & release
- Output pad -20dB
- Variable Compression Amount
(Ratio)
- Custom-made chassis and regulated PSU +24V
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VA2A "The Freemonk"
Built for Chris Webb a.k.a. Freemonk
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Vintage Optical Compressor / Leveling Amplifier built on the 1968 LA2A schematics. Featuring:
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- NOS UREI Optical Cell (1970)
- NOS RCA original LA2A tubes
- NOS UTC A-24, A-10 trarnsformers
- Paper & Oil Capacitors
- Blore-Eds Pots & Switches
- Siam VU meter
VA2A "The Argonaut"
Built for Ivo Sotirov
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Vintage Optical Compressor / Leveling Amplifier built on the 1968 LA2A schematics, but heavily modified. Featuring:
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- Increased bandwidth
- Output attenuator that turns the unit into a tube distortion
- Secondary Unbalanced output
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- NOS UREI Optical Cell (1970)
- NOS RCA original LA2A tubes
- NOS UTC A-24, A-20 trarnsformers
- Paper & Oil Capacitors
- Blore-Eds Pots & Switches
- Sifam VU meter
VA2A "The Friary Edition"
Built for Fuzz Audio
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Vintage Optical Compressor / Leveling Amplifier built on the 1968 LA2A schematics. Featuring:
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- NOS UREI Optical Cell (1970)
- NOS RCA original LA2A tubes
- Sowter input/output transformers
- Paper & Oil Capacitors
- Blore-Eds Pots & Switches
- Sifam VU meter
E.M.S.M.
Built for Ivo Sotirov
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Electro-Magnetic Summing Machine. This is a 8-track tape-machine-inspired hardware emulation & summing box. Featuring:
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- 3x Transformers per channel
(2x Vintage Haufe + 1x Carnhill)
- Vintage Neumann V475-2B Summing Amp
- Melcor-inspired 1731 op-amps
- NOS Germanium Diodes
VA47 "The Bomber"
All tube 3-stage channel strip built in the chassis of a vintage tape-machine amplifier. Featuring:
- Vintage Preamplifier taken from a legendary EMI design.
- Tube Baxandall EQ from a vintage guitar amplifier.
- Tube based output amplifier.
- UTC A-12 vintage input transformer
- Carnhill Output Transformer
- NOS Mullard Tubes
- Vintage Sifam VU meter
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VAE "Earth & Sky"
Build for Hugh Neal
Mastering-grade Solid State Stereo Equaliser. Featuring:
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- All stepped: Input Trim, Low Boost (10, 40, 70, 140Hz), High Boost (2.5, 5, 10, 20, 40kHz).
- LED VU meter bridge
- Gold Relay True Bypass
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- CAPI GAR2520 Discrete Op-Amps
- Orange Discrete Op-Amps
- Super high-speed Analog Devices ICs
- Audiophile-grade Nichicon Capacitors
- Dual Power Supply
EQ502 "Earth & Sky"
Build for sj.2fvded
Mastering-grade Solid State Stereo Equaliser for the API 500-series format. Featuring:
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- All stepped: Input Trim, Low Boost (10, 40, 70, 140Hz), High Boost (2.5, 5, 10, 20, 40kHz).
- High Boost x2 switch
- True Bypass
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- Super high-speed Analog Devices ICs
- Audiophile-grade Capacitors
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