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Most future-proof of all, the Pure Drive items characteristic UBS-C, ADAT and AES/EBU connectivity for extra concerned digital connection.
SSL’s legacy rivals most different professional audio manufacturers, however they’re not content material to go away it there. A rising vary of extra fashionable and refined merchandise expanded this week with the discharge of the SSL Pure Drive Quad and Pure Drive Octo Microphone Preamplifiers. As their title suggests, they’re both 4 or eight channels of SSL in a 2U rack.
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The SSL Pure Drive Quad preamps characteristic enter Acquire and Trim controls, the Trim knob doubles as a section flip change. All 4 pres have a ‘Line’ change, the enter for all 4 channels positioned helpfully on the left of the unit. Every channel has three phases of drive accessible, for refined rounding to extra overt grit and weight. There’s a sweepable high-pass filter (HPF) on the Quad, whereas the Octo encompasses a preset HPF. Each items characteristic an insert for every channel.
Issues get fascinating with a ‘Z Ω’ change accessible for every of the channels as effectively, switching resistance between 12.6k and 400Ω of resistance for somewhat additional tone shaping. The enter and Trim controls are additionally stepped for recall or precision settings between stereo pairs.
The Pure Drive Octo options all of this, albeit with an additional 4 channels! Most future-proof of all, the SSL Pure Drive items characteristic UBS-C, ADAT and AES/EBU connectivity for extra concerned digital connection.
Hold studying in regards to the Octo right here.
