Analogue Hit Maker

It's time to show your DAW who's boss

• SSL analogue channel processing for your audio workstation
• Pro mic preamp with line and instrument level switching
• Studio class EQ, Filter and Limiter sections
• Variable Harmonic Drive circuit - a time machine of distortion characteristics
• Analogue or digital outputs direct to your DAW

All great sounding recordings have to start somewhere...

With the classic combination of a mic preamp, filter, EQ and dynamics, the XLogic Alpha Channel brings SSL’s sonic legacy bang up to date in an analogue channel strip designed to provide the perfect front end to your digital audio workstation.

With all the features needed to record great vocal or instrument tracks, the Alpha Channel offers a studio class mic pre and processing based on SSL’s years of experience in designing the world’s leading analogue recording consoles. A huge proportion of the music you know and love was recorded on SSL, renowned for the superior audio qualities you’ve heard on countless hit records. That elusive sonic ingredient is here in the Alpha Channel.

Key Features

• Professional ultra clean mic preamp with line level & Hi Z instrument input switches
• ‘Variable Harmonic Drive’ circuit; a Time Machine of distortion characteristics
• High Pass Filter with selectable 40Hz, 80Hz or 120Hz cutoff frequency
• Built in professional quality Analogue to Digital conversion - as standard
• Auto sample rate sensing and self adjustment
• Three band SSL parametric EQ with mid freq Q control and dual LF curves
• Intelligent auto compression that maximises recording headroom and avoids DAC clipping
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The Four-Channel Mic Pre with attitude.

Transform your DAW audio interface with four SSL analogue mic preamps

• Ultra-clean, high-grade mic preamps with line and instrument level switching
• Four independent Variable Harmonic Drive (VHD) circuits
• VHD - a time machine of overdrive characteristics
• 100% analogue signal path

Say goodbye to the digital audio blues

Whether you need to track pristine vocals, crunched drums or electric guitars on the edge of sonic destruction, the VHD Pre delivers a powerful and versatile sound shaping tool kit - the perfect analogue companion to your digital recording system.

Based on the VHD circuit from our acclaimed Duality console, the VHD Pre adds four SSL mic preamps to any line level DAW audio interface, transforming it into a professional quality, multi-channel analogue recording system.

The four ultra-clean, high-grade mic preamps are combined with independent Variable Harmonic Drive circuits that use 100% analogue signal paths to generate rich harmonic distortion - adding SSL analogue attitude to your digital recordings.

As you increase the input gain, the Variable Harmonic Drive circuit introduces a blendable mix of 2nd or 3rd harmonic distortion to your source material, taking it from gentle valve-style warmth through to trashy transistoresque grunge. It’s a new world of overdriven possibilities.

Key Features

• Ultra-clean SSL preamp with 75dB of gain
• 48V phantom power
• 20dB Pad switches that illuminate to indicate overload
• Hi Z switches to accommodate mic, line and instrument level signals
• Four independent Variable Harmonic Drive systems
• Front panel 1/4" jack instrument/line level inputs with passive DI type impedance detection and level matching
• Individual input, output and VHD controls for each section
• Rear panel XLR mic/line inputs and XLR outputs
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