THE BETTERMAKER 502P is now being shown at the 2012 AES show in San Francisco and its sure to become a quick favorite not only because of its sonics but due to its complete integration with your DAW. You can recall settings with your sessions and control/automate it from within the DAW with the plugin. Marek says its the same circuitry as their 230P rack mount Eq that I blogged about previously. The 502P is a stereo 500 series unit that connects to your computer via USB.
FEATURES:
- Stereo Passive Analog EQ
- 399 recall presets on the unit
- Full D.A.W recall in your session
- The EQ follows the plugin as well as the plugin follows the EQ
- Full automation via plugins (RTAS, AU, VST, 32,64)
MSRP: $1450
FALCON is a classic sounding tube compressor in a 500 series package.
FALCON features 3 attack and 3 release time settings, hard and soft knee choices for compression or limiting, two different audio path sounds, wet-dry mixing for parallel compression, and is linkable.
The audio path color is changed by modifying the tube circuit so it has negative feedback or does not have negative feedback. This along with the optical like quality of the compressor allows for a colored vintage sound or a much cleaner sound with optical characteristics.
When linked the master unit controls all functions on the slave except for wet-dry and make up gain. The link system is capable of doing 5.1
The FALCON ships in January.
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