02/23/2022
This is THE fastest limiter of all time! 🥇🔥 It was designed by rocket scientists. Literally. It operates fully in 180 nanoseconds - that's over 100 times faster than a single sample tick at 48k. WTF. Oh also it can work above 20k? Why!? And it has another separately configurable compressor. That also auto adjusts to be a limiter. Oh but also it's designed to be a preamp. And it's also made with special pots for mastering? Wild.
I originally got these because a 610 absolutely nailed the mix on a @jbrekkie vocal when nothing else worked. I thought a pair of them would be cool to catch intersample peaks during mastering - but I quickly discovered they were actually magic mystery voodoo boxes that do so much more. I now know why you can find 610s in the racks of legendary ears such as @nigel_godrich
They're team players. They are designed to transparently optimize transient information to make the pieces of equipment that follow it sound better. Want big upfront punch and clarity from a drum without any compression artifacts? Yup. That's what it's made to do.
It can also slam a vocal or a guitar like an 1176 can because - yes - it's even faster than an 1176. It has awesome distortion if you want it to, or it can be clean enough for transparent mastering. @spectra1964 told me I'd probably find new uses for these mystery boxes that no one has even discovered yet. I think they might be right.
Thanks to @jacobaschneider at @vintagekingaudio for getting these magic boxes built for us https://instagr.am/p/CaUz_y5r3tV/
