Future Dynamics
The mpressor 500 brings the heritage of our extremely powerful rack mount mpressor into the 500 series format. Like its bigger brother, the mpressor 500 combines serious punch with a full and detailed class-A sound. Its great tone and flexibility make it an excellent choice for recording and mixing, while its remarkable special features take it far beyond the borders of what normal compressors can do.
Its massive sound, next generation features and its creative approach make the mpressor 500 a truly outstanding tool in the world of dynamics processing – the compressor from the future.
THD Boost
Activating the THD Boost function raises the level in front of the gain control element. This generates additional harmonics inside the input stage of this amplifier, which has a significant influence on the sonic structure of a signal.
The mpressor 500 is a pure feed forward compressor, and the gain potentiometer is placed before the control element. This means that the intensity of the saturation can be raised or lowered by different settings of the gain controller.
What’s special: The detector in the sidechain of the compressor runs in parallel and is therefore not influenced by the THD Boost at all. The actual compression does not change, it is only the sound which is being influenced.
You generate a saturated signal which as a result is also reduced in dynamics, but the actual control of the compressor itself is always based on the original dynamics including all transients, impulses and so on.
Technical Data
Frequency response
<10 Hz - 390 kHz (-3 dB) THD+N
@ 0 dBu, 20 Hz – 22 kHz: 0.04 %
@ 10 dBu, 20 Hz – 22 kHz: 0.19 %
@ 0 dBu, 20 Hz – 22 kHz, THD Boost: 0.24 %
@ 10 dBu, 20 Hz – 22 kHz, THD Boost: 2.20 %
Noise floor
20 Hz – 20 kHz (A-weighted): -79 dBu
20 Hz – 20 kHz (A-weighted), THD Boost: -87 dBu
Dynamic range
20 Hz – 22 kHz: 99 dB
Maximum level
Input: 21 dBu
Output: 22 dBu
Impedance
Input: 10 kOhm
Output: 68 Ohm
Power Consumption
Total: 75 mA
