The Brick Lane MC4 4-Channel Modal PWM Dynamics Processor from Cranborne Audio is an advanced analog pulse width modulation compressor designed to redefine dynamics control in professional audio production. Powered by its innovative Modal PWM Compression architecture, this module provides impressive flexibility by offering multiple distinct compression styles within a single unit. Each mode represents a unique compression approach, delivering a wide range of sonic characteristics tailored to various applications.
From gentle, Vari-Mu-inspired curves to rapid FET-like responsiveness, the MC4 adapts seamlessly to any creative need. Compression ratio, attack, release, and knee behaviors dynamically shift between modes, providing precise control over tonal and dynamic shaping. The versatile Stress control enhances each mode, offering options like subtle harmonic warmth, transient shaping, mix glue, and loudness optimization. The MC4 provides even further advanced features compared to its predecessor, the Brick Lane 500.
- Velvet: Vintage Vari-Mu-style musicality with tube-inspired harmonic compression. This compression style offers smooth, organic, dynamic control with vintage tonal warmth and character.
- Float: Transparent opto-inspired dynamics with moderate transparency and gentle, wavelike compression ballistics.
- Smash: FET-style transient dominance with aggressive dynamic reduction, explosive punch, and sonic impact.
- Tame: Precision transient management with ultrafast, transparent control and surgical dynamic precision.
- Glue: Gentle compression tailored for submixes and master buses.
- Polish: Premium mastering-style limiting with Cranborne's Analog Lookahead technology for clean, fast response.
- Pure PWM (pulse width modulation) analog signal processing
- Minimizes undesirable compression artefacts and distortion
- Infinite control of compression envelopes, onsets, and ballistics
- Quarter-wave predictive voltage detection provides an advanced transient anticipation mechanism
- Enables zero-latency dynamics control
- Prevents converter clipping with surgical precision
- Exclusive to Polish mode for ultimate mastering-grade limiting
- Proprietary Stress control enables nuanced audio coloration for each compression mode
- Transforms compression into a creative instrument
- Access to deep compression parameters beyond conventional analog controls
- Adjustable compression knee, attack, and release weighting, detector behavior, high-frequency emphasis, and more
- Enables precise tailoring of compressor response, from fast, percussive dynamics to softer, vintage-style behavior
- Pure PWM processing
- 100% analog signal integrity with no digital conversion
- 2 RU 19" rack PWM compressor meticulously developed by the Cranborne Audio team in the UK
- Custom PWM compression circuit and unique Stress control for harmonically enriched compression effects
- Six Compression modes—Velvet, Float, Smash, Tame, Glue, and Polish—set compression ratio, knee, compression style, and compression rate of change
- Threshold control and variable-range attack and release controls (altered per mode)
- 5" TFT screen and 12-segment LED gain reduction meter
- 4 selectable side-chain HPF modes—OFF, 60, 100, 200 Hz
- ±20 dB input and output / make-up gain level to tailor the compression and saturation character to the source
- Mono, stereo, mid/side, dual band, series, and de-essing with flexible routing configurations
- ENIGMA for deep and advanced compression parameters
- USB and network recall
- Inserts on rear panel for flexible studio integration
- Assignable external side-chain inputs
- True bypass in/out switching with complete or post input trim modes available on DIP switch
- Stepped front-panel controls for quick recall and precise feel