Warm Audio WA-1B
Tube optical compressor
Compressor / Limiter$1,299Manufacturer list price
Specifications
- Type
- Compressor / Limiter
- Description
- Tube optical compressor
- Topology
- All-tube, transformer-balanced optical compression, 270V circuit, hand-wired through-hole
- Signal path
- Analog
- Channels
- 1
- Channel format
- mono
- Form factor
- 19-inch rack, 2U
- Rack units
- 2
- Powered
- Internal PSU (mains)
Details
Controls: Threshold, ratio, attack, release, makeup gain, sidechain bus selector (Off/Bus1/Bus2), meter-adjust knob, fixed/manual mode switch
I/O: Balanced analog I/O, sidechain bus link (up to 10 units)
Notable use: Marketed with association to Adele, Dr. Dre, Lenny Kravitz, Norah Jones recordings (referring to the classic unit's use, not necessarily this specific reissue)
Notes: Recreation of a Scandinavian-style all-tube optical compressor (Warm Audio's copy does not explicitly name the cloned classic unit by brand; commonly associated with the Tube-Tech CL 1B in the market -- left as manufacturer-stated description rather than guessed brand name).