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TK Audio BC1-THD Stereo Bus Compressor - Used  From TK Audio

Love the sound of BC1 but want more tonal control? This is your Compressor! In Used, Excellent condition

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Manufacturer's Description from TK Audio

  • Smooth transparent glue.
  • Sidechain filter with three frequencies.
  • Selectable THD function for more “even” harmonics.
  • Grab function that selects a harder threshold knee.
  • Blend control for easy parallel compression.
  • All controls stepped for easy recall.
 

Engineers call it “The Magic Glue” when the BC1-THD’s transparent compression strengthens mixes without compromising clarity.

The BC1-THD provides smooth bus compression that applies for both mixing and tracking. The built-in blend control makes it easy to apply parallel compression by adjusting the blend of dry and compressed signal. A switchable sidechain filter can be applied which makes the BC1-THD less responsive to low frequency energy. The THD function adds more harmonics to the signal and the “grab” mode selects a harder threshold knee on all four ratio settings. Smooth and transparent compression will never go out of fashion.

Features

Threshold: -20dB to +20dB
External sidechain: in/out
Ratio: 1.5:1 / 2:1 / 4:1 / 10:1 /
HP Filter: 80Hz, 150Hz, 220Hz, -6dB octave
THD: adds more even harmonics
Grab: selects a harder thres hold knee
Attack: /0.1/0.3/0.6/1/3/6/10/30/60/120mS
Release: 50mS/100mS/300mS/600mS/1.2S/Auto
Gainreduction meter
Make-up: 0 to +20dB
Dry signal mute
Blendcontrol: from dry to compressed
Compression in/out
External sidechain input: unbalanced TRS jacks
Internal, regulated powersupply with a toroidal transformer
115 or 230V, selectable

TK Audio

About Manufacturer

TK Audio is based in Halmstad, a small town in the southwest of Sweden. It started out in 2008 as an additional brand to Vintagedesign as we wanted to develop products with a bit more modern style. Thomas Kristiansson (or TK as his friends call him) is the mastermind behind both Vintagedesign and TK Audio and he has been working with electronics, cords and sounds in different kinds of professions his entire career.
Our philosophy is to produce creative audio solutions and assemble them in Sweden.
We buy the chassis from a local manufacturer and the main part of the panels is also produced nearby. Up until just recently we have assembled and soldered the circuit boards by ourselves but as the demand for our products has increased we can´t keep up so now we also use another company to help us out. They are situated just a 2 hour drive from Halmstad so we can still proudly say that our products are hand made in Sweden. We take responsibility for keeping our production as environmental friendly as possible and by having full control over the production and of course making all the final assembling by ourselves we can make sure that the quality always is top notch!

Specifications

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20kHz less than -0,025dB
Frequency response: 20Hz to 80kHz less than -0,3dB
THD+N @ 0dBu: less than 0,0045%
Input impedance: 20kohm
Output impedance: 50ohm
Max input level: +26dBu
Max output level: +27dBu @ 600ohms load

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