Audio professionals looking for that classic SSL sound will appreciate the Kahayan Solid 4000 Mix Bus, a 500-series stereo processor designed to be inserted on a stereo bus that imparts the characteristics of an SSL 4000-series mixing console. The processor offers a drive control for harmonic saturation and an output knob to compensate for the Drive signal.
Setup and Basic Aspects
- Bypass: switch on or bypass the mix-bus processor. When the LED is on, the unit is active
- Drive: controls harmonic distortion; it sounds like aggressively hitting a console mix bus. High settings increase grit and drive. Lower settings tend to open up the dynamics. Begin with extreme settings, so you can really hear the effect (distortion)
- Output: fader to compensate the output level as you adjust the drive control
- VU meter: works like a classic VU-meter that you can find in the consoles, but it is positioned after drive control and gives a view of the saturation level. The 0 VU is calibrated in a 1% THD position; over that level, the saturation increases