About
An amazing sound from an all-original analog design When SPL released the IRON mastering compressor, it became an instant icon. Their goal was to create a compressor that provided a pleasant, melodic-sounding, transparent compression, inspired by the vintage compressors of the radio era. But, they wanted it to be versatile enough to adapt perfectly to the needs of modern mastering studios. The resulting 25 lb, 4RU tube compressor was an immediate hit in top mastering studios around the world.
Inspired by tube classics, packed full of 21st century innovations The IRON set a new benchmark by taking the sonic virtues of legendary vintage tube compressors and adding on modern innovations, including a parallel dual tube circuit, rectifier mode switching, flexible attack and release settings, and a High Dynamic 120V operating voltage.
Features
- Variable Bias Tube Compressor
- Parallel Dual Tube Circuit combines two tube types
- Custom Mu-Metal Iron Transformers
- Feed-forward resistive Vactrol-Opto-Isolator
- Six different Rectifier settings available
- Sidechain that allows you to choose between Off, four sidechain-filter presets or an external sidechain signal
- In Link mode, the Threshold, Tube Bias, Attack, Release, and Rectifier parameters, as well as the Sidechain EQs, are controlled with the right side (channel 2) of the unit
- Master out features an additional, Passive Equalizer with two fixed sounds
- TMT — Brainworx patent-registered “Tolerance Modeling Technology” (US Patent No. 10,725,727)
- Brainworx plugin only features such as TMT (US Patent No. 10,725,727), M/S Processing, Mono-Maker and Stereo Width, Parallel Mix and Headroom
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