Retro Instruments Doublewide I Tube Compressor
500-series Tube Compressor
Compressor / LimiterPrice not published
Specifications
- Type
- Compressor / Limiter
- Description
- 500-series Tube Compressor
- Topology
- all-tube/valve, variable-mu, complementary push-pull, two gain stages
- Signal path
- Analog
- Channels
- 1
- Channel format
- mono
- Form factor
- 500-series module (double-width, 2 slots)
- Connection
- 500-series (API-format) rack
- Powered
- 500-series rack supply, 180 mA (6 W)
- Power (W)
- 6
- Country of manufacture
- USA
Details
Controls: Continuously variable Input and Output level (fixed threshold), continuously variable Attack and Recovery, Single/Double time-constant mode, hard-wire bypass switch
I/O: Fully floating, transformer-balanced line-level I/O via 500-series gold-plated edge-card connector
Notes: FLAG: brief description called Doublewide 'Pultec-style,' but it is actually a variable-mu tube COMPRESSOR (not an EQ) — classified accordingly as Compressor / Limiter, not Equalizer. Four NOS 6BJ6 variable-mu tubes in a fully complementary push-pull design, two Cinemag transformers, Simpson gain-reduction meter, side-accessible meter-zero trim, gold-plated edge-card connections. 'Hand built and tested in the U.S.' Still listed on the current products page alongside Doublewide II (not marked discontinued) as an entry-level option below it. Frequency response and price not published on manufacturer page.