Bring Tube Warmth to Digital Recordings with Drawmer's TS1 Preamp
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July 5, 2002
Stemming from a long line of award-winning Ivor Drawmer
designs that brought about the 60s series preamp/compressors, the
new Drawmer Tube Station 1 delivers Drawmer
preamplification and warm analog tube compression to where it's needed most
- the digital home recorder. Say goodbye to the cold, sterile world of
digital recordings inundated with inadequate digital conversion and often
lackluster preamps and VCA compressors. The new Tube Station 1 (TS1) boasts
a Class A Drawmer preamp and a stereo soft-knee Drawmer tube compressor
coupled with a 24-bit/96k digital converter in an affordable
one-rack space package.
Like the 1960, the TS1 performs as a stereo tube
compressor either for fattening mixes or as a dedicated voice or instrument
channel preamp/compressor. When used as a channel strip, the HF contour
control and variable high-pass filter (25Hz-250Hz) bring new definition,
presence and clarity to vocals or acoustic guitar. A variable Tube Drive
control also becomes useful while tracking to dial in just the right amount
of warm Drawmer tube saturation, and users can even A/B the results via a
separate front panel switch. The TS1's stereo soft-knee tube compression is
controlled by a "compress" control which makes the best use of threshold and
ratio settings for easily obtainable musical results, and a separate fixed
threshold limiter prohibits fast transients and plosives from overloading
digital recorders.
Other professional studio features are
maintained, including balanced ins and outs, phantom power, an effects
insert point and sidechain access to the compressor. The optional digital
output module offers SPDIF or AES/EBU at up to 24-bit resolution and 96K
sample rate. Simultaneous analog outputs are available via balanced XLRs.
The TS1 is currently shipping at $749 for the unit and an additional $250
for the digital output module.
For more information, visit their web site at www.transaudiogroup.com. | 
