Audio professionals looking for that classic SSL sound will appreciate the Kahayan Solid 4000 Mix Bus, a 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, an output knob to compensate for the Drive signal, and a Blend control for dry/wet control and parallel processing.
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 and 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 and back off from there, so you can really hear the effect (distortion)
- Output: Fader to compensate the output level as you adjust the drive control
- Blend: The dry/wet blend control determines the balance between the original and the processed signal. The range is from 0% (dry, unprocessed) to 100% (wet, processed signal only). And it is located in the signal path after the drive and output control.
- VU Meter: Works like a classic VU meter that you can find in most consoles. 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.
- On/Off: Power switch.