SSL X-Rack VHD Input Module
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Our Click and Collect service is available at our Guildford store from 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday, and 11am - 5pm on Sunday. You can either choose click and collect as your delivery option online or, during store opening hours, call our sales team at 01483 456777 to place a 10% deposit.
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If the only available stock is in our off-site warehouse it can be brought to the store location for you to try - you just need to contact the store within opening hours. Please note any requests received after 3.30pm will not arrive at the store until the following morning.
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SKU: SSL0030
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Product Description
Combines the uniquely versatile VHD Pre with the classic SSL Listen Mic Compressor.
The VHD Pre is a patented SSL preamp design that can deliver ultra-clean SSL grade recordings but also features the VHD circuit which can be switched into the signal path. The Variable Harmonic Drive circuit uses a 100% analogue signal path to generate rich harmonic distortion. As you increase the input gain, the Variable Harmonic Drive circuit introduces either 2nd or 3rd harmonic distortion or a blend of the two to your source material. At lower gain settings it adds gentle valve-style warmth or a touch of transistor edge. As the gain is increased the more extreme the distortion becomes until at high gain settings it delivers fierce trashy transistor-esque grunge. VHD pre's give the user ultimate versatility from a studio grade preamp. Whether it's ultra-clean traditional SSL, subtle warming or totally trashy transistor distortion, VHD will change your expectations of what a preamplifier should deliver.
The SSL Listen Mic Compressor is a studio classic. This famous processor from the legendary SL4000E console was the secret weapon in many producers sonic arsenal of recording techniques. Originally designed to prevent overloading the return feed from a studio communications mic, its fixed attack and release curves were eminently suitable for use on ambient drum mics.
A combination of the Iconic VHD preamp with the SSL Listen Microphone compressor to offer a rich analogue harmonic distortion, increasing the gain can introduce further harmonics (2nd or 3rd) and even blend between the two and the dry signal. Pushing the unit will create resonate eye watering grungy distortion. Yet the SSL X-rack VHD can also offer tick warm clean tones.
Features:
- Electronically balanced ultra-high bandwidth Mic input with +20dB to +70dB gain control
- Hi-Z and Pad Switches on Mic Amp Input
- Dedicated Additional XLR Line Input
- Variable Harmonic Drive circuit adds a controllable blend of 2nd or 3rd Harmonic distortion
- Dedicated Trim control after the VHD stage
- Classic Listen Mic Compressor with fixed attack and release curves... ideal for drums
- High and Low-Pass Filters