AudioScape Engineering Co. DA-3A Dual-Channel Optical Leveling Amplifier
LA-3A-style opto compressor (dual channel)
Compressor / Limiter$1,799Manufacturer list price
Specifications
- Type
- Compressor / Limiter
- Description
- LA-3A-style opto compressor (dual channel)
- Topology
- LA-3A-style optical leveling amplifier, in-house T4B opto cell
- Signal path
- Analog
- Channels
- 2
- Channel format
- Dual mono / stereo linkable
- Form factor
- rackmount
- Rack units
- 2
- Country of manufacture
- USA
Details
Controls: Stereo link switch; stereo adjust; HF emphasis (sidechain bandpass); bypass; illuminated VU meter
I/O: Not fully specified on page (custom-wound input/output transformers and autoformer)
Notable use: Stereo submixes (especially guitars), vocals
Notes: FLAG: 1:1 recreation of UREI LA-3A solid-state opto leveling amp, dual-channel 2U rack format. Companion 500-series single-channel version is V3A (separate row below).