Dave Hill Designs Titan Compressor
Titan is Dave Hill’s analogue compressor/limiter with a very large range of colour and control choices with recall. The main audio path is a discrete class A design. Resetability is attained by using stepped controls and encoders that have their values displayed on Titan’s color LCD display.
Titan is a digitally controlled analogue device with a very high speed dsp side chain that allows the design to push the limits beyond what is possible in the design of an analogue side chain.
The compressor/limiter controls are as normal; Threshold, Attack, Release, Shape, Bypass-In-Link, Meter Select, and make up Gain. These controls have their settings displayed on a color LCD display. The Shape control shows the knee of the compressor, with the knee characteristic being graphically drawn on the LCD to allow the user to see the knee’s shape. The graphical display updates with the changing of the Threshold and Shape controls. When stereo linked the unit selected as control master will control all functions on the second channel.
In addition there are controls that can provide color choices:
VCA COLOUR
The VCA COLOUR control provides a mix between a very clean PWM gain control device and a vintage gain control element. The vintage gain control element is a diode type compressor circuit. There are 16 steps in the cross fade-mix control for a wide range in choices.
PARALLEL MIX
The PARALLEL MIX control blends the unprocessed audio with the compressed audio, a parallel compression function. There are 16 steps in the cross fade-mix control for a wide range in choices.
DYNAMIC COLOUR
The DYNAMIC COLOUR control is a control that provides harmonic content that is the opposite in nature of the harmonic content that the vintage gain control element generates. The effect of the Dynamic Colour control can be described as making the sound “”bigger””. This function has 16 steps to provide a wide range of sonic control.
FAT – AIR
The FAT – AIR switch that will add air or fatness to the compressed audio.
Titan is a single rack space 100 to 240 Volt switchable 50, 60 Hz