AUDIO ANIMALS REVIEW
In this video I review the Tube-Tech SMC 2B multiband compressor. Known as one of the best analogue multiband compressors the industry has to offer. 3 optical compressor split into low mid and high bands for pin point accurate multiband compression.
PLUGIN VS HARDWARE
In this video I directly compare the Tube-Tech SMC 2B hardware to the plugin emulation. This is a very good emulation of a brilliant sounding hardware compressor. Known as one of the best multiband compressors in the analogue domain.
KEY FEATURES
- Multiband Tube Compression
- 3 Bands Per Channel
- Variable Crossover Frequencies
- Gain Control For Each Band
- Variable Threshold, Ration, Attack And Release
TUBE-TECH SMC 2B
The SMC 2B is one of the most creative and musical audio tools available, and an all-time favourite for countless sound engineers around the world.
Variable crossover points ensure precise control with all three bands of opto-compression. Independent band specific Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release & Gain parameters make the SMC 2B as flexible as it is accurate.
INSIDE TUBE-TECH SMC 2B
The TUBE-TECH SMC 2B Stereo Multiband Compressor features three independent optical stereo compressors. The signal is divided into three bands (Low, Mid & High) by 6 dB/octave x-over networks with variable frequencies: 60-1200 Hz for Low/Mid band and 1,2-6 kHz for the Mid/High band.
FEATURES
- The World’s only all-tube multiband compressor design
- Low distortion optical gain reduction elements
- Frequency response: @ -3 dB: 5 Hz to 60 kHz
- Low noise: < -60 dBU @ 10 dB gain
- CMRR: > 60 dB @ 10 kHz
- Three bands per channel with variable crossover frequencies
- Variable threshold, ratio, attack and release for all three bands
- Master output gain: Off to +10 dB
- Balance Control (+/-1,5 dB)
- LED display shows compression
- Clickless In/Out relay
- Conductive plastic potentiometers
- Gain Control for each band
- Gold plated switches (SMC 2BM
- In- and outputs are transformer balanced and fully floating
PRICE
- Sweetwater – $5300.00
- SX Pro – £4488.00
CONNECTIONS
- XLR Input (L+R)
- XLR Output (L+R)
