Radiator

Product Introduction 产品介绍​

Radiator
Introducing Radiator, a dual drive tube input channel and EQ, based on the classic Altec 1567A tube mixer from the 1960s.
The original Altec 1567A hardware was a rack-mounted five-input tube mixer with removable transformers,
a simple two-knob EQ, an unmistakable green faceplate, and a whopping 97 dB of gain.
The sound, by today’s standards, is colored and gritty, with a heaping helping of good old fashioned hardware noise.
In its day, it was used on many early Motown hits, and found its way into the PA racks of countless churches and school auditoriums across the USA.​

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A Bit of History
The unmistakable green-faced Altec gear, and in particular the 1566A and 1567A,
played a big part in shaping the early “sound” of Motown between 1961 to 1964.
Songs by greats like The Four Tops, The Marvelettes
and The Supremes went through a 1567A mixer to the massive three track recorder.
Ahhh, when life was simple.​

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These mic preamps and mixers have a very colored warm sound and are very loud.
The EQ is as simple as it gets, with one knob for bass, and another for treble.
After Motown, and after much gear came and went,
analog diehards began seeking out the 1566A and 1567A as inexpensive sources for real tube sound.
Motown Records Chief Enginner, Russ Terrana (shown here),
used the 1567A extensively and it became part of the distinctive Motown sound.
Producer Matt Wallace was a very big fan.
Butch Vig and Billy Bush are also fans.​

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Radiator brings the classic Altec tube sound to desktop recording rigs,
capturing the distinctive warmth and punch of the original hardware.
Featuring the modeled bass and treble tone controls from the original unit, a mix control for easy parallel processing,
and the saturation and harmonic effects of the original hardware’s input and output amplifiers.
All of these different circuit elements interact, allowing a wide range of tones to be created with just a few simple knobs.
Plus we let you decide if the original noise is on or off.​

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Radiator 将经典的 Altec 1567A 管式混音器的声音带到桌面录音系统中，
捕捉到原始硬件的独特温暖和冲击力。
它具有原始硬件的模型化的低音和高音音色控制，一个混合控制，便于并行处理，
还具有原始硬件的输入和输出放大器的饱和以及谐波效果
所有这些不同的电路元素相互作用，只需几个简单的旋钮就能创造出各种不同的音色。
此外，我们还允许你选择是否开启原始噪音。

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Over the past few years the Altec mixers have been picked up by recording studios as an inexpensive way to bring analog color and character to computer based digital recording.
With producers like Matt Wallace of early Maroon 5 fame utilizing the 1567A on their early hits,
and now bands like the Black Keys (who had a custom console made from Altec 1567A’s) the demand, and price, for these funky little color boxes have soared.​

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Computer recordists everywhere can now get the Altec tube sound
on every input channel, without the hassles of interfacing to esoteric analog gear, and at a much lower cost.
Radiator also includes Little Radiator,
a simpler single-stage tube pre-amp model based on the Altec 1566A hardware, the little brother of the Altec 1567A.​

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Highlights
Analog modeled tube mixer with EQ
Independent input and output amplification stages each add their own character
Bring the sound of a Motown era classic to your DAW
Load the transformers two different ways with the Mic/Line switch for different sounds​

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