Manual

66 | SUMMIT AUDIO GRAND CHANNEL
Dierent Kinds of Distortion
e TLA-100A plug-in has a separate saturation
control which lets you adjust the headroom of the
unit, so that you can go from a clean sound with al-
most no audible distortion at all, to a fully saturated
leave-no-transients-intact sound. e distortion in
the TLA is therefore well-suited for taming tran-
sients in drums, but maybe not the rst choice when
you need to warm up a vocal track.
e distortion of the EQF-100 has a totally dier-
ent character, warm and fat, due to its strong 2nd
order harmonic. It is very well suited for vocals, bass
or brass.
As a Console 1 channel strip, we’ve made it even
easier to dial in that perfect saturation. e Drive
section consists of both types of distortion, and you
can easily blend between these by adjusting the
Drive Character knob. It goes from full TLA glory,
to 100% EQF warmth.
Shape
Since the Grand Channel doesn’t have a shape or
gate section, we decided to put the versatile and
beautifully sounding Dynamic Shape from the
Solid State Logic SL4000E as the default Shape
unit.
Input Filters
e input lters are modeled from the lters in the
EQF-100, but modied to be continuous instead of
stepped.
ing channel strip plug-in which would combine the
TLA and the EQ beast known as the EQF-100.
But the EQF-100 proved to be a more dicult
creature than we had rst imagined.
After having modeled plenty of equalizers we felt
condent that absolutely nothing could surprise us
and that we would keep all deadlines. We couldn’t
have been more wrong. e passive design of the
EQF-100 was intricate, well-designed and just as
beautiful as we thought it would be. We just didn’t
realize how complicated it was.
But after plenty of work developing a new tech-
nique for modeling of big passive circuits we feel
condent that you will enjoy this monster.
EQF-100 Full Range Equalizer
Four full bands of equalization and a warm output
distortion makes this equalizer extremely versatile.
It can be used on any type of source, and once you
get to know it, it will become your best friend.
TLA-100A Tube Leveling
Amplier
It doesn’t have many knobs, but can create a vast
amount of dierent sounds. With an opto-like
compression circuit, you’ll get a smooth compres-
sion with a very soft knee. But due to its modern
and intricate design you can set it to be faster than
any other opto-compressor, which makes it more
versatile than its competitors.