{"product_id":"tegeler-audio-creme-bus-compressor-and-mastering-equalizer","title":"Tegeler Audio Creme Bus Compressor and Mastering Equalizer","description":"\u003cp\u003eYour mix is balanced. Every part sits where it should. And still, it sounds like a mix, not a record. The engineers behind the records you love close that gap in the same place: the master bus. A little EQ to open the top and firm up the lows, a few dB of compression to pull everything together. The same move that lets you hear, while you’re still mixing, how the track will sit once it’s mastered. The \u003cstrong\u003eTegeler Audio Creme\u003c\/strong\u003e is built for exactly that moment: a passive Pultec-style EQ and a high-end bus compressor in one device. But where compression usually dulls the top end, the Creme keeps it silky and brilliant. The mix gains shine and glue at once, and your tracks stop sounding worked-on. They start sounding finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"toc_0\"\u003eTWO LEGENDS, ONE BOX\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn their own, a Pultec-style passive EQ and an SSL-style bus compressor are two separate boxes, a classic finishing pair. The Creme puts both in one. EQ before the compressor, or compressor before the EQ: the placement is switchable, so you decide what shapes what. Built for the mix bus, the Creme is just as suited to mastering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"toc_1\"\u003eTHE GLUE OF AN SSL-STYLE BUS COMP\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the mix bus, the Creme’s VCA compressor does what made the SSL-style bus compressor a standard: it pulls the separate parts into one cohesive whole. Its characteristic, powerful sound can take every mix to the next level. Where compression usually costs you the high end, the Creme doesn’t. The often lamentable loss of high notes simply doesn’t happen here. Instead, the signal sounds as if it had already been fed through an exciter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe compressor can work hard and still give your mix a more open, brilliant sound. The compression is harmonic in nature. The sound always stays transparent, and every instrument keeps its own place in the mix. The basses come together as a unified whole, tightened with lean dynamics. And the switchable low-cut filter in the side chain ensures that even heavy bass doesn’t lead to pumping when you don’t want it. Want it inaudible? At 1.5:1, the Creme gives you the gentlest, most transparent leveling. Want character? Open up the ratio and the timing, and it gives the track a rhythmic signature of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"toc_2\"\u003eTHE SHINE OF A PULTEC\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePassive equalizers, with their elaborate circuits of coils and capacitors, are still among the most popular sound shapers for mastering. Tegeler took the filter circuitry of the original Pultec, the same that made the Classic Equalizer a high-performance sound machine, and carefully reworked it for the mix bus. No other type of EQ sounds this good across almost any setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoft, silky highs that deserve the name. The air a mix needs to sound finished, with a boost that reaches all the way up to 24 kHz. A bass boost that gives the mix a solid foundation and real thrust, without squashing everything into an indistinct nothingness. Tegeler have replaced unnecessary controls with fixed values and every potentiometer with a rotary switch. Limiting the settings to the values that actually matter makes each adjustment more precise, and gives the Creme accurate stereo tracking and perfect recall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tegeler Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44450512044135,"sku":"130491","price":1799.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/8848\/5479\/files\/tegeler-audio-creme_130491_1.jpg?v=1793370857","url":"https:\/\/vintageking.mom\/products\/tegeler-audio-creme-bus-compressor-and-mastering-equalizer","provider":"Vintage King","version":"1.0","type":"link"}