Chandler RS660 - Single-channel vacuum tube compressor/limiter
£3,037.50 ex. vat
Chandler RS660 - Single-channel vacuum tube compressor/limiter
The Chandler Limited RS660 is a handmade mono (linkable), transformer-balanced valve compressor. Building on the classic designs the EMI RS124 and Fairchild 660, the RS660 distils them into a refined and elegant circuit designed to achieve the much desired tones and characteristics of the 660.
For coloration without compression, the RS660’s ‘THD’ (Total Harmonic Distortion) mode is informed by the Chandler Limited EMI Abbey Road Studios TG1 and TG12413 Zener Limiter. When the compressor is set for THD mode, the RS660 is able to produce overdrive and distortions — including heavy to light harmonic distortion — for signal coloration sans compression or limiting.
Capable of controlling a multitude of dynamic sources from vocals to explosive drums and raucous guitars, the Chandler Limited RS660 Compressor and limiter is at home alongside the historic units from which it was hewn and adds to the modern engineers cache of analogue processors.
Specifications
- Channels: Mono
- Circuit: Tube (6386, 6CG7, 6AL5)
- Connections
- Inputs: XLR (pin 2 hot)
- Output: XLR (pin 2 hot)
- Transformer balanced I/O (custom wound)
- Controls
- Input Control: Variable (stepped special order)
- Output Attenuator: Variable (stepped special order)
- Time Constant: Selectable, Stepped (7 settings)
- Compressor Modes: Selectable (THD, Limit, Comp)
- Output Impedance: 200/600 ohms, switchable
- Stereo linkable: Switchable, Standard 1/4" jack
- Power: Internal power supply