elysia xpressor qube 500 Series Stereo Compressor with Desktop Chassis

Product Description

The elysia qube Series features elysia's famous 500 series modules, all with Class A topology, mounted in a rugged, lightweight and travel-ready aluminum case with all the great pristine, transparent sound you expect from elysia. With the xpressor 500 under the hood, this version of the qube gives you more fresh beef to your music instead of lame audio salads. On a side dish you will get an extra chain for pumping effects. All his creative features will make your mouth water.

Put your qube wherever you need. On top of your rack, desk in your home studio or even on a small table beside your laptop. Take advantage of qube at your next live or simply take it to the club to use the DJ booth. A new definition of comfort and flexibility is just waiting for you.

Use qube to replace your favorite audio processing plug-ins and save yourself precious CPU power on your DAW. Enjoy high-performance tactile control with the highest industry standard quality custom made potentiometers to get your. 100% free from latency.

XPRESSOR 500

The xpressor 500 is one of the best sounding and most versatile stereo compressors in the 500 series format. With its many unique features taken from elysia's flagship products, you not only get great compression and tone, but an amount of control on processing which is hardly ever experienced elsewhere.

BUILD QUALITY

Every single of its many aspects – sound, features, circuitry, components, design, materials, manufacturing – has been thought over and over until there was just nothing left to improve. Basically, every single part of elysia's fine products is custom, and most of these are made according to their own designs and specs.

The xpressor 500 achieves perfect processing results for all different styles of music and assures the ‘this is it’ feeling of a finished song. Its enhanced functions exceed the potential of normal compressors by far and give you unimagined options for mastering and mixing.

AUTO FAST

The attack parameter is a very crucial factor for the operations of a compressor. Choosing the right time settings is very important, but depending on the dynamic progress of the source material this can be a difficult task – no matter if single tracks or complete mixes are processed.

If a very short attack time is chosen, the compressor is able to catch the short peaks, but on the other hand the sustaining signal will also be processed, which might result in audible distortion. Longer settings reduce distortion significantly, but then the compressor is too slow for catching fast impulses.

This is where the Auto Fast function comes into play. For example, if you set the attack to 80 ms and then engage the Auto Fast mode, the attack time will be shortened automatically on fast and loud signal impulses. The compressor reduces the signal quickly and prevents it from slipping through.

Then the attack time directly and automatically returns to its original setting. In Auto Fast mode the compressor can be very fast, but only when it is really needed. This function influences the attack parameter on short and loud impulses only; in all other cases the original setting of the controller has priority.

WARM MODE

This function is basically a slew rate limiter that reduces the speed of the output amplifier stages. This affects the frequency spectrum, the harmonics and the transient response at the same time.

Fast transients are slowed down a bit and the overall sound appears more round and merged. As this function influences the behavior of the output stages, the effect it creates has an impact on the complete processing results of all EQ stages.

In this way the xpressor 500 offers two different sound characters at the push of a button: the powerful transparency of the discrete class-A circuitry and the saturated richness of the Warm mode.