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- Fabricant : Safe Sound Audio
- Modèle : Tracking Toolbox
- Catégorie : Préamplis à transistors
- Fiche créée le : 22/02/2025
PRESENTATION
This is our premier tracking toolbox for vocals and other sources requiring a wide open mic pre combined with the best tracking compressor on the market.
Classic Class-A discrete transistor mic amp feeds a second servo IC stage to boost the maximum gain up through 70dB, well beyond most of the single stage Class A designs.
Peakride compression is very easy to dial in when tracking and evens out levels in a very musical way without robbing the sound of life, so bringing the performance a new energy.
Use the toolbox to track with confidence and it will give you great results and inspire confidence when you have difficult dynamic sources to work with.
FEATURES
Front end
Class A discrete transistor mic pre feeding a servo IC second stage. Wide open sound with more than 70dB of gain available.
Front panel access to a High Impedance instrument input.
Balanced Line Input.
Really easy to use single gain knob for all three inputs.
Switchable 80Hz hi-pass filter with 18dB/octave slope.
Balanced Insert allows the insertion of EQ pre dynamics if required OR record direct from the mic amp output (insert send) and use the insert return to make the dynamics section available to a different channel source.
Expander: A studio quality expander that's really easy to use. Beautifully smooth noise reduction on voice overs or use it as a gate to kick some life into a drum track.
Compressor: This is the SMOOTHEST compressor on the planet. If you love compressors which distort and pump, then SORRY this is not for you. The Tracking Toolbox compressor is super smooth using a multistage design called peakride. Very fast when required to be but always in control and never bad tempered! Fully adjustable THRESHOLD, RATIO and ATTACK. 'Follow audio' controlled release time and automatic gain make-up complete the picture.
Limiter: Switchable fixed threshold limiter for ultimate protection. The limiter design combines programme related elements of 'look ahead' dynamic threshold control with dynamic adjustment of attack time. Another great tool with a dual personality; very fast clipping protection when tracking but also very useful as a creative tool in its own right when pushed into heavy levels of limiting.
Output stage: Balanced output stage with +27dBu drive capability.
Zero latency monitoring and personalised mix while tracking.
The Tracking Toolbox features a stereo mix section and high quality headphone amp. This enables the artist to blend their own signal within the stereo monitor mix and find a comfortable level while tracking.
Quality components and build: Composite Steel and Aluminum Extruded Case which is both physically very rugged and provides very effective screening from other gear and RF.
Quality precision aluminum control knobs.
100% Neutrik audio connectors.
Audio switching by sealed au-alloy contact relays.
The Tracking Toolbox houses a 100% analogue power supply unit with a super high quality toroidal power transformer feeding three 100% linear power voltage regulators. No nasty wall-warts or switched-mode power stages here we promise!
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Main processor audio path
Frequency response : -0.5dB points at 5Hz and 60kHz
Distortion : < 0.01% at 1kHz (typically 0.007%) main signal path working at 0dBu
Maximum input levels (input gain set to minimum)
Microphone : +20dBu
Line input : +27dBu
Instrument : +18dBu
Input impedances
Microphone : 2k4 ohms
Line input : > 10k ohms
Instrument : 1M ohms
Equivalent input noise figure
Microphone : 128dB (max gain with 150 ohms source)
High Pass Filter
Switchable 80Hz hi-pass filter with 18dB/octave slope
Balanced Line Output
Output Gain : ±15dB (post limiter)
Maximum Output Level (post limiter) : +27dBu
Output impedance: 50 ohms
Output Noise : -91dBu RMS unweighted, measured 22Hz to 22kHz / -93dBu RMS A-weighted, measured 22Hz to 22kHz
Input Gain Ranges
Microphone input : -5dB to +70dB
Line input : -10dB to +20dB
Instrument input : +4dB to +35dB
Peakride Compressor
Threshold range : 0dB to -40dB
Attack time range : 60ms to 1ms
Release time : variable from 90ms to 500ms (tracks the natural audio decay)
Ratio : 1:1 to 30:1
Make-up gain : automatically set in proportion to the threshold and ratio settings
Gain reduction meter : calibrated in dB’s
Dynamic Attack Limiter
Threshold : fixed internally to +6dBu (nominal)
Attack time : audio related with a fastest response of 0.5ms
Release time : audio related from 50ms to 500ms
Metering
Level metering : 8 element LED display measuring -21dB to 0dB (0dB equates to Limiter Threshold)
Gain Reduction : 8 element LED display
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Output Gain and Level Metering
The output gain control (10) is sited in the signal path immediately after the limiter and just before the final balanced output stage which in turn feeds the line output jack socket on the rear of the unit (23). The most common use of the output gain control is to match the peak output level of the tracking toolbox to the peak input level of your recording device. Once you have done this level matching it’s usually not necessary to alter the output gain control during recording.
The level meter (19) is intentionally placed BEFORE the output gain control. We suggest you use the level meter in conjunction with the INPUT gain control during recording set-up so that the maximum audio level during tracking is lighting one or both of the yellow level LED’s but not intentionally lighting the red level LED. When switched into circuit the unit’s limiter will keep the maximum output level below 0dB (nominally +6dBu).
Operating at higher nominal recording levels (e.g. +18dBu) is also possible by switching the limiter off and using only the recording meters in your recording device to monitor the maximum desired recording level, but on the whole it is better to operate below the unit’s 0dB point (red LED) then use the output gain control for additional post limiter gain. This provides the optimum balance between noise and distortion performance.
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