While its name gives away a little of its intended use, the MBT employs some classic stuff we’ve come to expect from RND.
Rupert Neve Designs (RND), the company tasked with continuing the legend’s legacy, today announce something new: the Master Bus Transformer. Having built a solid foundation for preamps, compressors and EQs in the RND range, the company has more recently added summing mixers and master bus processors to its collection, now with the Master Bus Transformer (MBT).
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While its name gives away a little of its intended use, the MBT employs some classic stuff we’ve come to expect from RND. The MBT is a stereo processor, intended to “sweeten, enhance, drive, widen, and utterly transform source material”.
An Input Trim and High-Pass Frequency (HPF) precede an EQ section with simple high and low boost/cut. The signal moves through the new Color Comp, an optical compressor design that “excels at accentuating the non-linear distortion and ‘colorful’ characteristics of the Opto cell”. The Width section of the module is special, offering a HPF from 50Hz through to 800Hz so you can leave lower frequencies unaffected. Building on Rupert Neve Designs’ ‘Silk, the ‘Super Silk’ offers saturation, the ‘Super Silk’ now harnessing RND’s Red and Blue Silk modes simultaneously, before a final Output Trim with 12dB boost/cut available.
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