Bring Tube Warmth to Digital Recordings with Drawmer's TS1 Preamp

Jul 05, 2002

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Stemming from a long line of award-winning Ivor Drawmer designs that brought about the 60s series preamp/compressors, the new Drawmer Tube Station 1 delivers Drawmer preamplification and warm analog tube compression to where it's needed most - the digital home recorder. Say goodbye to the cold, sterile world of digital recordings inundated with inadequate digital conversion and often lackluster preamps and VCA compressors. The new Tube Station 1 (TS1) boasts a Class A Drawmer preamp and a stereo soft-knee Drawmer tube compressor coupled with a 24-bit/96k digital converter in an affordable one-rack space package.

Like the 1960, the TS1 performs as a stereo tube compressor either for fattening mixes or as a dedicated voice or instrument channel preamp/compressor. When used as a channel strip, the HF contour control and variable high-pass filter (25Hz-250Hz) bring new definition, presence and clarity to vocals or acoustic guitar. A variable Tube Drive control also becomes useful while tracking to dial in just the right amount of warm Drawmer tube saturation, and users can even A/B the results via a separate front panel switch. The TS1's stereo soft-knee tube compression is controlled by a "compress" control which makes the best use of threshold and ratio settings for easily obtainable musical results, and a separate fixed threshold limiter prohibits fast transients and plosives from overloading digital recorders.

The TS1 is currently shipping at $749 for the unit and an additional $250 for the digital output module.

For more information, visit their web site at www.transaudiogroup.com.