Description
The TK Audio BC1-THD is a premium stereo bus compressor designed for mixing and tracking. Its transparent compression allows for dynamic control without altering your tone, making it ideal for refining mixes while preserving their natural sound. With its high quality compression and advanced features, the BC1-THD is perfect for shaping your music with precision, whether you’re tightening up the dynamics of a mix or tracking a live performance. The front panel offers extensive control options, including threshold, ratio, attack, and release settings, as well as a blend control for mixing dry and compressed signals. Additionally, the BC1-THD features modes like THD for adding harmonic richness and Grab for more aggressive compression. The switchable sidechain high pass filter gives you flexibility, allowing you to filter out low frequencies for better control of the compression’s behaviour. A truly versatile and transparent tool, the BC1-THD delivers exceptional results across various applications.
Key Features:
- Transparent Compression:
Achieve dynamic control without affecting your original tone, providing tightness to your mix without compromising your sound. - Flexible Controls and Modes:
With threshold, ratio, attack, release, and blend controls, along with THD and Grab modes, tailor the compression to fit your needs. - Advanced Sidechain Features:
The switchable HPF lets you select from three frequencies, giving you precise control over how the compression interacts with your mix.
Transparent Compression:
The TK Audio BC1-THD offers pristine, transparent compression, ensuring your tone remains unaltered while tightening the dynamics of your mix. It’s designed to give you all the benefits of compression—such as reducing peaks and increasing sustain—without introducing unwanted colouration. Whether you’re using it on individual tracks or the stereo bus, the BC1-THD ensures that the natural sound of your recording shines through while achieving a polished, professional result.
Versatile Control and Modes:
The BC1-THD features a wide range of controls that allow for complete flexibility in shaping the compression. These include threshold, ratio, attack, release, and a blend control that lets you mix dry and compressed signals. Additionally, the THD mode adds harmonic content for a richer sound, while the Grab mode allows for a harder compression knee, ideal for more aggressive dynamic control. This makes the BC1-THD suitable for a variety of applications, from gentle tightening to more intense compression effects.
Advanced Sidechain Options:
The BC1-THD’s sidechain functionality is enhanced with a switchable high pass filter (HPF) that allows you to select from 80Hz, 150Hz, or 220Hz frequencies. This provides the ability to fine tune how the sidechain compression reacts to the low end content, ensuring your mix retains its clarity and balance. The external sidechain input offers additional versatility, making the BC1-THD adaptable to any studio setup or live performance situation.
Specifications:
- Frequency response: 20Hz to 20kHz less than -0,025dB
- Frequency response: 20Hz to 80kHz less than -0,3dB
- Blend control fully CW (dry) THD+N @ 0dBu: less than 0,0045%
- THD @ 0dBu: less than 0,001%
- THD+N @ +26dBu: less than 0,02%
- THD @ +26dBu: less than 0,02%
- Blend control fully CCW (straight) THD+N @ 0dBu: less than 0,00045%
- THD+N @ +26dBu: less than 0,0003%
- Input impedance: 20kohm
- Output impedance: 50ohm
- Max input level: +26dBu
- Max output level: +27dBu @ 600ohms load
- Threshold: -20dB to +20dB
- External sidechain: in/out
- Ratio: 1.5:1 / 2:1 / 4:1 / 10:1
- HP Filter: 80Hz, 150Hz, 220Hz, -6dB octave
- THD: adds more even harmonics
- Grab: selects a harder threshold knee
- Attack: /0.1/0.3/0.6/1/3/6/10/30/60/120mS
- Release: 50mS/100mS/300mS/600mS/1.2S/Auto
- Gain reduction meter
- Make-up: 0 to +20dB
- Dry signal mute
- Blend control: from dry to compressed
- Compression in/out
- External sidechain input: unbalanced TRS jacks
- Internal, regulated power supply with a toroidal transformer
- 115 or 230V, selectable
