SSL 4000 B Dynamics (B-DYN) 500 series module

The 4000 B Dynamics (B-DYN) 500 series module takes the dynamics processor found in the channel strip of the SL 4000 B console and puts it into 500 Series format. Released in 1976, the SL 4000 B was the first commercially available console from Solid State Logic and famously used in ‘The Stone Room’ at Virgin’s Townhouse Studio (London), Le Studio (Montreal) and Record Plant (LA). It was responsible for countless iconic records, including Phil Collins’ ‘In the Air Tonight’ and Peter Gabriel’s ‘Intruder’, both of which feature characterful compression on drums and vocals. The B-DYN allows you to add heavily coloured, grabby, saturated compression from one of the rarest studio consoles ever made to your production toolkit.

FEATURES

• An authentic recreation of SL 4000 B console dynamics processing

• Design based on the SSL Bus Compressor

• Features Compressor/Limiter & Gate/Expander

• Feedback design with Peak sensing for aggressive ‘grabby’ character

• Fixed compression ratios, 2:1, 4:1 & 10:1 with additional ‘DS’ mode

• Fixed release times, DS, .2, .4, .8, 1.6 & renowned ‘Auto’

• Auto make-up gain

• Sidechain High Pass Filter

• Stereo Link mode

• New (classic) SSL flavour for your productions