Aphex Channel Master Preamp and Input Processor
The Aphex Channel is a Tube Microphone Preamp and signal processor that is an indispensable broadcast station tool. You’ll find them in the production room and installed as a permanent on-air processing for pumping up voices. The Aphex Channel is a powerful and easy-to-use channel strip for commercial and project studios, featuring Aphex's reflected-plate amplifier tube microphone preamp design plus compression, gating, de-esser, parametric EQ, Aural Exciter, and Big Bottom bass enhancement. It is an extraordinary single rack unit that offers 7 of Aphex’s most popular tools that help you work more easily and naturally, achieving the sonic quality you want without connecting several devices. When space is at a premium in a touring rig, and night after night reliability is essential, the rugged Aphex Channel provides all the top quality processing needed for any instrument without taking up precious rack space.
Features:
- Ultra-wide bandwidth, maximum gain and headroom
- Lower operating temperature than conventional tube designs for longer tube life
- Each unit is individually tuned at the Aphex factory for unparalleled consistency any two units are a matched pair
- Aphex’s patented Wave Dependent Compressor automatically adjusts attack and release times according to program complexity
- No-Knee compression curve circuitry automatically adjusts compression ratio based on program levels
- Includes Aphex’s 1001 Class A Voltage Controlled Attenuator, used in the Compellor and Dominator
- Patented gate technology designed to avoid false triggers, clicks and chattering
- Split band universal de-esser designed to maintain presence while dramatically reducing sibilance on any voice
- Patented technology for deeper and more resonant bass with little or no increase in peak output
- For the ability to precisely fine tune the all-important midrange between the Big Bottom and Aural Exciter.
- Patented technology for increased presence and clarity with improved detail and intelligibility