Overstayer from LA offer highly flexible products with the ability to tweak the hell out of your audio.
Overstayer – Not your next-door standard gear
The Company Overstayer Recording Equipment is a LA based company. You could say, Overstayer gear overstays (in terms of exceeding) many technical standards. You could interpret as follows: An Overstayer in your rack will probably never go, and you will never get the feeling it gets obsolete.
What makes people buy Overstayer gear? Well: Overstayer products are everything but standard. It may be strained to say they can be Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. But this describes them best. It is safe for us to claim we don't know any other gear providing such a huge variety of sound character in such a high quality. All the processors may sound clean and transparent if you need them to. But they don't have a problem bearing their teeth.
It's all about changinging sound in its frequency domain, its dynamics, and: adding harmonics! Overstayer's analog outboard gear covers a range from VCA or FET dynamics to harmonics/saturation devices to full-blown channel strips. Most products are stereo or two-channel.
Needless to say, Overstayer's build quailty is stellar!
So why should you consider to buy an Overstayer? Let us guide you through the product range…
The Stereo Voltage Control might be most tame unit in the range – in the realm of an overstayer product. As a VCA compressor/limiter, it gives you the complete range from soft, technical RMS compression to smashy peak limiting. Behavior drastically changes the compression envelope. Of course there are a sidechain and a sidechain filter. Harmonics can be added, there are a blend dial and EQs to taylor the sound you want without the need for further processing downstream.
Stereo Field Effect is a dynamics processor, too. Loosely based on classic FET compressor/limiters. You get a lot of possibilities to tune your dynamics. But Nonlinear Mode releases the beast!
The M-A-S- 8101 is two channel, so you can use it for individual mono signals as well. This unit is also ideal for tracking – and it features a DI input!. M-A-S brings analog vibe to your sound. A lot of it, if you want. Overstayer implemented fixed shelf EQs, There are three additional switches (Dual, 2ND, Emphasis) give you an extended range of harmonic enrichment and peak rounding. The „Analog-Maker“ is killer on busses. Many mastering studios buy it: The 8108 can be ordered in the Rotary-version with detented knobs for recall.
It should be no surprise the Overstayer Saturator saturatres. The two-channel device forms your audio in every way you like. Of course, the „Saturation“-knob is the most important one, as this is where you dial in the nonlinear amplifier saturation and soft clipping. The range is amazing, saturation starts with a subtle, classy warmth. But you can also smash drums to bits, using resonance and emphasis.
Modular Channel Model 8755 and Imperial Channel Model 877A are full-blown channel strips – Overstayer style, of course. EQ, FET dynamics and extensive harmonic shaping give you give you the utmost flexibility for your signal. Be it soft and clean shaping or putting it upside down, those units are erfect for any task.
The Modular Channel Model 8755 is a 19“/2U stereo unit. Overstayer call it „modular“, because there are possibilities to change the signal flow inside the unit, an ISR and external key input. The Imperial Channel 8776A is a thin, upright (5U) unit allowing every single processing module to be used separately and/or in the desired order – there are tons of I/Os on the back. The unit works stand-alone with its own power supply, but can be put in racks of 2, 4 or 10 units, the latter to fill a 19“ rack space.
There is a difference between Overstayer 8755DS and Overstayer 8755DM. It lies in the inputs and amplification:
• Overstayer 8755DS offers line and DI inputs – the unit you might want to buy when doing solely electronic music, mixing or mastering
• Overstayer 8755DM has Line and DI inputs and additional microphone inputs and corresponding mic preamps (transformer coupled) – the all-purpose device