Weiss Engineering DS1-MK3
Digital mastering compressor/limiter/de-esser
Compressor / LimiterPrice not published
Specifications
- Type
- Compressor / Limiter
- Description
- Digital mastering compressor/limiter/de-esser
- Topology
- Sharc DSP-based, full-band or band-selective (linear-phase crossover) compression, 40-bit floating point internal processing; M/S mode, parallel compression
- Signal path
- Digital (recallable / digitally controlled)
- Channels
- 2
- Channel format
- Stereo
- Form factor
- 19-inch rack
- Rack units
- 2
- Connection
- AES/EBU
- Sample rate (kHz)
- 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96
- Bit depth
- 24-bit I/O (max), 40-bit floating point internal, POW-R (#1/#2/#3) dither on output
- DSP
- true
- Country of manufacture
- Switzerland
Details
Controls: Front-panel controls for threshold/ratio/attack/release per band, fast/slow release, RMS window size, release delay; factory and user presets
I/O: AES/EBU digital in (XLR female) and out (XLR male) only; no analog I/O
Notable use: Bob Katz (contributed limiter algorithms), Clete Baker, Glenn Meadows, Brad Blackwood
Notes: FLAG: digital mastering compressor/de-esser, DSP=true, digital_control=true. Weiss's own store lists hardware DS1-MK3 at SFr 8,700 (CHF only); a UK dealer listing showed £8,500 GBP. No USD manufacturer/dealer price confirmed, so price_usd left blank per no-conversion rule. A separately-sold software-only Softube/Weiss DS1-MK3 plugin exists (~$549 USD / SFr 591 list) — this is a DAW plugin, NOT hardware, and is excluded from this catalog. Original DS1 line dates to the mid-1990s per site copy ("nearly three decades"); exact MK3 revision year not stated on site, so year_intro left blank rather than guessed.