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Shadow Hills Mastering Com-pressor Class A
TRULY CLASS A!
The shadow hills mastering compressor class a limited
edition is one of the most exclusive and powerful
compressors ever built. vintage king released the
class in 2012, limiting production to on-ly 50 units.
This very expensive and high-end compressor sits very
nicely in some of the best mastering houses in the world.
The Brainwork plugin could be the closest we can get
to this beautiful piece. The plugin models the limited
edition piece quite faithfully down to the updated Class
A discrete compressor section utilizing Lundahl input
transformers as well as the hand-wired Mogami Cable.
The plugin features all of the same controls as the
original hardware including the control to choose
between different transformers for different colors.
This makes this quite versatile. The compression is
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extremely smooth and transparent. It delivers a thicker
and richer tone to whatever is running through it.
Among the controls, Brainworx included its well-
known retractable Extra Unit. The BX Extra Unit
provides the following features: Brainworx´s TMT
(patent pending Tolerance Modeling Technolo-gy),
MS - processing, Mono-Maker, Stereo Width, Parallel
Mix, Sidechain Filter continuously vari-able 12 dB per
octave high pass filter and a Headroom parameter.
Visually, this version can also be distinguished by
red LEDs on the front panel versus the green ones
found on the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor.
GREEN for the Drum Buss - RED for the Master.
All in all its a great plugin to have and is surprisingly
very noticeable different than the normal edi-tion of the
Shadow Hills compressor. It has its character and adds a
very distinct punch to mixes. It works well for electronic
music to give it some overall character and vibe.