Kahayan Vintage 80 series STEREO MIXBUSS | How it works
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- Kahayan Vintage 80 Series Stereo Mix Buss Processor
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The Vintage 80 series Mix Buss is a stereo processor that allows to insert in your mixbus setup the summing bus circuit of the classic 80 series consoles. The music of the ‘60s and ‘70s was characterized by a sound that was warm, fat, and rich, with a breathtakingly detailed midrange, now thanks to this unit you can add to your mix all this harmonic structure and colored sound.
The Vintage 80 series Mix Buss is designed to be used mostly as an insert on the mix bus, but can also be used to enhance instrument group busses. We suggest to insert it before you start mixing and then mix through it. This helps you tailor the mix and get the best sound.
All the components used in manufacturing come essentially from the same manufacturers that supplied the ones used originally, reproducing and expanding the benefits of these.
The controls included are:
1-DRIVE: controls harmonic distortion: It sounds like aggressively hitting a console mix buss. High settings increase grit and drive. Lower settings tend to open up the dynamics. Begin with extreme settings so that you can really hear the effect.
2-OUTPUT: fader to compensate the output level as you adjust the drive control.
3-BLEND: The Dry/Wet blend control determines the balance between the original and the processed signal. The range is from 0% (dry, unprocessed) to 100% (wet, processed signal only).
4-IRON BYPASS: Output transfomer bypass switch. This ouptut transformer is part of this classic midrange sound, when you byppas it you have smooth more dynamic sound, so you have a new sound option.
Pablo Kahayan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From a very young age, he was attracted to electronics and technology as much as he was to music – which led him to study both guitar and electronics. He studied electronics at the Juan XXIII College in Buenos Aires, where the Director of Studies and several of his teachers were musicians. The electric guitar and the amplifiers were a starting point of two worlds. Pablo started building his own guitar amps and effects pedals, while combining his academic studies with electronics repair work and manufacturing sound gear with his uncle. As his work in the field of audio was rapidly growing, he left his university studies after three years to focus on the world of audio. During this time Pablo did some work for Hewlett Packard Technical Services in Buenos Aires, which provided him with some income while allowing him to develop his skills with both electronics and audio. In 1990, Pablo travelled to Europe and was enchanted by Spain. A year later he set up shop in Madrid, first working with computers and soon after becoming a partner in a music school. Pablo started repairing and modifying amplifiers and instruments, and then to manufacture his own pro-audio equipment. Pablo’s fascination with the tone and sound of classic equipment leads him to start using components found in such vintage manufacturers like Telefunken, Neumann, Neve, Pultec etc. During these years Pablo met amazing artits and engineers like Paco de Lucía, Rafa Sardina, Vicente Amigo, Josemi Carmona, Oscar Vinader, Ludovico Vagnone , Tim Pierce, etc. That inspire him and help him to reach our days. To this day Pablo continues to focus on the customization, manufacture and develop of equipment for guitarists and bassists, as well as designing and building his own unique line of tube amps and pro-audio gear.